Walt Disney Influences

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Walt Disney was a very important figure in starting the entertainment and film industry. He was a television and film producer and was also a showman. He received many awards for all his accomplishments and won thirty-two Academy Awards. He still holds the record for most individual Academy Awards won. He won a Grammy, Emmy and recived three other Emmy nominations. Walt had a strong value for family. Walt was the humorous prankster in his family growing up and his dad would sometimes get annoyed with him because of it. Walt Disney made a big impact on the film making industry, created many iconic characters and had an inspiring life. Who was Walt Disney? He was born on December 5, 1901. He and his brother Roy founded the Disney Corporation …show more content…
Walt’s movie Snow White broke new ground in several ways. It was the first celluloid animated feature film ever produced and was the first animated film to be in color (technicolor). They also had to make 250,000 celluloid frames. There are ten steps to make the films, here are the basics of them. First, they make a story board. Next, they story board is presented. Then, the dialogue is laid out so animators know what the characters will say. After that, the animators will make rough sketches of just the characters. The drawings are usually messy, and don’t have color, some films can use up to 50,000 drawings. At the studio the best drawers usually only sketch a few drawings then a person called the inbetweener does the rest. From there, they copy all them to the celluloid paper. Then, they go to the next station and get painted. Before the Celluloid’s get photographed they paint the background on a separate sheet of celluloid or sometimes even glass and place the character celluloid on top of it. Now, the full drawings are photographed by a device with a lens mounted face town to a table top so they can take pictures of the celluloids on the table top. Then the dialogue is added and the film is

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