This 1930’s documentary newsreel (in Universal's "Going Places" series) offers an in-depth glimpse into the Universal/Walter Lantz animation studio, featuring narration by legendary newsman Lowell Thomas. Assembly-line steps from script to screen in the creation of the Oswald The Rabbit cartoon "The Softball Game" are shown. Glimpses are given of the story development, creator Walter Lantz himself pitching in with gags and direction with a very "Brooklynite" twang, animators at work making funny faces, composers, background painters, cameramen, voice artists, sound effects & music departments, and more.
The “White” Oswald Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
WALTER LANTZ STUDIO
Oswald
the Rabbit (later-1930s)
original production animation model sheet
photography on double-weight paper, dimensions: 9" x 13.25"
Beginning in the early 1930s the Disney Studio introduced the model
sheet to animated filmmaking, and other studios quickly adopted this device for
circulating images of its animated characters and/or atmosphere and concept art
among artists and animators working in production of a film. Before the 1970s
they were generally reproduced by a photostatic, photographic, or printing
process. Model sheets were made when a character or setting was in development
and to help animators maintain a consistent look to the character throughout
the film. This scarce photographic model sheet featuring full-figure and
portrait poses, notes, and a detailed construction of Oswald was made at the
Walter Lantz Studio during production of the Oswald the Rabbit cartoons of the later-1930s,
and it was issued to animators for use in drawing the character. Oswald was
originally created by Walt Disney, who lost the character when his distributor
decided to make the cartoons with Walter Lantz. Oswald was Lantz' main cartoon
star of the 1930s. The sheet is stamped "© Walter Lantz" at lower
right.
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