Friday, December 12, 2008

ROAR BOOK: Walt Disney the art of Animation

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5.Comments:
  • Wow! The whole production for "Fantasia" cost $2,200,000; that is a lot of money.
  • "Fantasia" was a unique achievement because music was finally introduced to cartoons.
  • I have never watched "Fantasia" before but I would love to someday.
  • I love to listen to music and I think music is an important part to cartoons.
  • Composers are very important because they are the ones that create musical compositions.

4.Questions:

  • What is Tchaikovsky?
  • Who is Leopold Stokowski?
  • What was "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" about?
  • What is "moviola"?

3.Vocabulary:

  • Liaison: a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
  • Centaurs: one of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
  • Jauntier: easy and sprightly in manner or bearing.

2.Literary Terms:

  • Metaphor: "Paul Smith might sweat out a musical sequence, working nights and weekends." (page 87)
  • Indirect Characterization: "Gregarious Oliver Wallace has been known to knock out musical compositions in record time." Gregarious Oliver Wallace is a very good composer. (page 87)

1.Overview Sentence:

  • Describes about the music that Walt Disney began to use in his cartoons such as Beethoven's "Pastrol" Symphony and Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

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