Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ROAR BOOK: Walt Disney the art of Animation

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5.Comments:
  • I did not know that "Sleeping Beauty" was more than a motion picture; it was a work of art.
  • WOW! "Mickey Mouse" was created in in 1928; that was a very long time ago.
  • I can't believe Walt Disney had set up the first cartoon studio in Hollywood (in 1928).
  • I did not know that Albert Hurter provided the early inspiration for the "Three Little Pigs" and "Snow White".
  • Now I know why the TV program is named Disney Channel; it was named after Walt Disney.

4.Questions:

  • What is the difference between anime and cartoon?
  • Who was Alfred Hitchcook?
  • What was the cartoon "The Wayward Canary" about?
  • Who was J. Stuart Blackton?

3.Vocabulary:

  • Quintessence: the most perfect embodiment of something
  • Celluloid: a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of cellulose nitrate and camphor, used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film and other products
  • Primitive: being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, esp. in an early age of the world

2.Literary Terms:

  • Dialogue: throughout the first 20 pages
  • Setting: "notes and sketches piled deep on the two desks, paintings and signs thumbtacked to the walls, records scattered near a phonograph in a corner." (page 12)

1.Overview Sentence:

  • In 1923, Walt Disney cam from Kansas to set up the first cartoon studio in Hollywood and started working on new cartoons.

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