Animation Artifacts &Books 16 Feb 2006 08:27 am
Hoppity
– For some reason, over the years I’ve had a fascination with the the Fleischer film, Hoppity Goes To Town.
I’d seen the movie when I was young, and I guess it’s stuck with me. I found it interesting that it was an original story for an animated feature. All of the Disney pieces (with the exception of Lady and The Tramp) were adaptations of books and tales.
I found it exciting that two great song writers, Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, would be writing for an animated film. They wrote three songs for the film: We’re The Couple In The Castle, Katy-did Katy-didn’t and I’ll Dance At Your Wedding Honey Dear. Loesser wrote Boy Oh Boy! with Sammy Timberg.
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As it turns out they didn’t get nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. Gulliver’s Travels had been nominated for song (Faithful Forever) and scoring. It lost both to The Wizard of Oz. They did sell a lot of records and sheet music to Mr. Bug Goes To Town.
I have a children’s book with attractive illustrations inspired from the Fleischer film. Starting tomorrow I’ll post a couple of these pictures regularly until the book is completely posted.
- Jenny Lerew has a superb posting up today about Lady and The Tramp‘s story line. It’s well worth reading – with an excellent illustration from the storyboard. Go there –
Blackwing Diaries.
- I found it entertaining to see how many people commented on the Jeopardy question I posted two days ago.
Many people felt that the answer should have been Ub Iwerks, but let’s use logic. The general public doesn’t have a clue as to who Ub Iwerks was. Nor did Iwerks invent the Multiplane Camera for Disney. He developed it for himself, and Disney engineers built one simultaneously. (Sure, they probably stole the idea, but they didn’t make Snow White with Iwerks’ camera stand! Nor did the Disney studio ever give Iwerks credit for inventing it.)
I was curious to see how long it would take before someone posted the exact question that I couldn’t locate at the time I wrote my piece. “T” was the one who sent it in and wins a zoetrope as a prize. All he has to do is send me an address, and I’ll send him/her the unannounced reward.
