Animation &Disney &Frame Grabs 12 Sep 2011 06:34 am
Giantland
- For the past couple of weeks, Hans Perk at A Film LA has featured the animator drafts for the Disney short, Giantland. I’ve taken the opportunity to pull some frame grabs and label the animator for each particular scene. The original drafts have the film titled at “Mickey and the Giant.”
The film was directed by Burt Gillett and released on 11/25/1933.
The animation was by Les Clark, Cy Young, Johnny Cannon, Dick Huemer, Ham Luske (one scene with Dick W[illiams]), Bill Roberts, Fred Moore, Gerry Geronimi, Gilles Armand “Frenchy” de Trémaudan, Ben Sharpsteen, and Ugo D’Orsy.
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Here’s the YouTube version:
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The Ub Iwerks short, “Jack and the Beanstalk” is interesting in that Castle Films distributed the 8mm & 16mm home movie versions of the short duriing the 50s and 60s. This allowed the Iwerks film to be more familiar to many people today. I actually studied the film frame-by-frame dozens of times when I was a kid. I got to tell Grim Natwick that his was the first animation I ever really studied.
The film had many similarities, but the approach was very different. By this time, the Disney studio was trying to improve themselves. Cartoon fantasy such as buzzing saws, representing sleep, and the tips of shoes opening to reveal smelly toes, would not be part of the Disney approach. There was more realism, hence better acting, in the Disney shorts. Iwerks hung fast to the fantasy, just as the Fleischer films did so into the late 30s.
The Iwerks film was in color (albeit Cinecolor.)
It’s amazing how similar yet very different the Iwerks short,
Jack & the Beanstalk is. The Disney studio seems to have
gone for a more realistic approach, while the Iwerks’ team
delved more into the cartoon fantasy of the animation.
on 12 Sep 2011 at 7:45 am 1.Stephen Macquignon said …
Some of the scenes from this film remind me of what was done later in Mickey and the Beanstalk
on 12 Sep 2011 at 11:45 am 2.The Gee said …
Are there any known reasons why the studio kept revisiting the Jack and the Beanstalk?
I don’t believe I have ever seen “Giantland†before. If I have, I’m not making the connection.
on 12 Sep 2011 at 12:53 pm 3.Juan Bauty said …
Amazing!
on 12 Sep 2011 at 8:36 pm 4.Stephen Worth said …
Les Clark always seems to get the scenes you can imagine Walt acting out in the story meeting.
on 03 Jun 2016 at 5:35 pm 5.Z. Katie said …
Who did the character design for the giant in the Mickey cartoon?
on 03 Jun 2016 at 5:36 pm 6.Z. Katie said …
Pretty good!
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