Friday, December 12, 2008

ROAR BOOK: Walt Disney the art of Animation

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5.Comments:
  • I did not know that Mary Costa sang and spoke the role of Princess in "Sleeping Beauty".
  • Sound effects men had to deal with broken bottles and blank cartridges; now I know what they actually used to create the sounds.
  • I love Jacques and Gus (they are the mice in "Cinderella"); they are so cute.
  • I did not that Eleanor Audley had voiced as the queen in "Snow White" and Maleficent in "Sleeping Beauty".
  • I did not know that the crinkling of cellophane sounded exactly like a roaring fire.
4.Questions:
  • Why was Bill Thomas called "Old Timer"?
  • When was Pinocchio created? Was it created into a motion picture?
  • What is a "Silly Symphony"?
  • When was "Peter Pan" created? Was it created into a motion picture?

3.Vocabulary:

  • Ingenuous: free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
  • Baritone: a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
  • Prodigious: extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.

2.Literary Terms:

  • Simile: King Hubert was described as "built like Bill Thompson son, fat and square... lovable but hot-tempered... gets caught in his own trap then explodes... sincere." (page 73)
  • Direct Characterization: "Fauna is a little bit nitwitted..." (page73)

1.Overview Sentence:

  • Describes the instruments used to create the sounds in cartoons and the actresses/actors that voiced for the cartoon characters.

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