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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1988.

petitive. Applicants are given

Sketches for a New Disney Hero mber of drawing problems to

solve, and send these in by mail before they are given a tryout in the studio: If they solve the pro- blems successfully, they enter the school; if they succeed if the

school, they move on

on from it into

the department for which they are best fitted.

Once safely in a department, they advance as they prove thems belves useful; but they are" "now members in good standing of the Disney family circle. They see all pictures in rough drawings have a.finger in improving them where possible, sit in at the preview. The preview in the Disney.

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a showing of the rough drawings lantern projection before animation or camera work takes place. And it is largely by the preview reac-} tions that the producers know whe- ther the picture will succeed or not. A récent preview of "The Story of Ferdinand," the Munro Leaf story of a bull, for example, leads the studio to think it has an- | other “Three-Little-- Pigs" on its hands. Studio reception was en- thusiastic beyond anything it has Disney points out, you never can seen since the advent of that popu- tell. The studio wasn't very en- lar production. But then, as Mr. thusiastic about "Snow White".

With the girl of his dreams lock- -in-his-arms-a young man feels the whole world is at his feet.

in Various Moods

HOW WORKERS ARE BUILT UP

Hollywood. men, layout men, animators; - musi-

If Walt Disney is to have his way cians, background, artists, and ink- and he probably will future ing, and painting departments are productions at his studio which a few of the main --- channels use the voices of actors will be through which all Disney produc released without crediting the actor tions must go. On the average, for his work on the screen.

several hundred new men a year are put into the plant, tried out, and then advanced to their proper niches, or let out."?

It was apparent after the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" that people were going to want to know who the actors and Recently, a method of developing actresses are who take the voice new personnel has evolved which roles in future Disney productions. is proving more satisfactory than Adriana Caseotti, who had the anything previously tried: A school voice role of Snow White, and is run in conjunction with the Eddie Collins, who posed for some studio, and new artists are tried of the Dopey drawings in the first out in it and taught the essentials| feature-length Disney picture, have of Disney methods without any

· reaped much personal gain from salary except a small living ex- their parts in it.

pense. If they prove apt at the -Disney workers, while unwilling work they are advanced into the to withhold any credit due the un-other departments at salaries rang- seen figures who act as voice and ing from $30 to $200 a week, at- model for some of the cartoon cording to their ability. Priority! figures, are still a little dubious is not the basis of advancement|| about the amount of credit going to with the Disney firm: Fertility, them. Disney animators, for exam- adaptability, talent these are ple, say they used Mr. Collins the measuring rods. New ideas are merely as a springboard into their constantly being brought forth "by | conception of Dopey. Mr. Collins is staff members, and when they are said to have visited the studio but considered good enough, they are a few times during the several used for new productions. Every years in which the pictures was in Disney worker has at least some production, and the artists who part in every production, knows built. Dopey from the original what is going on at all times; and modeling done by him feel that is free to advance › ideas for im- they departed a good deal from his provement or change at any time. work. Mr. Disney himself, thinks These ideas are paid for. Dopey belongs -very much to the

All Are Art Students... studio, and grew out of such char- It should perhaps be emphasised, acters as Pluto, and the Goof, as however, that even raw recruits much as from any modeling 'done who enter the Dianey school, with- for him.

out pay, are always art students. with at least three years of good art school background. Entrahee,

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