Walt Disney's The Old Mill (1937)
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Published 2008-08-12
Here's some general foreground of this film. During this time, Walt was very busy making Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, in order to create special effects in Snow White in the way Walt envisioned them, the animators had to run tests. They had to see if these effects were even possible and they wanted to see the audiences reactions.
Walt wanted Snow White to be as lifelike as possible so the audience would observe the movie as a live action film rather then a cartoon. Unfortunately, animation is in 2D so Walt and his staff came up with a solution called "The Multiplane Camera" which gave animation a 3D effect.
Different uses of lightning, color, and realism in animals was experimented in this film.
Walt won an Oscar for this film and totally deserved it.
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All Comments (21)
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How many people are watching this in 2024😊
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Disney needs to become this charming again.
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I want this kind of animation back!!
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I miss the old charming Disney music. So eloquent and heavenly
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77 years later and it's still as emotionally resonant, and artistically beautiful as ever.
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There's something so peaceful about old movies, animated and otherwise.
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Old is always gold, even more than gold
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That's how Disney became big: positive vibes, good ideas and painstaking animation. The light on the spiderweb alone (at the intro and outro) is breathtakingly beautiful.
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The intro shot with the spider spinning its web at dusk with the strands getting hit with light and becoming visible as they stretch under the spiders weight really shows much much thought, effort and passion put into this kind of animation back then. It was just a fleeting detail, and it's absolutely perfect.
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A masterpiece forgotten by my memory. Out of nowhere appearing to me, nearly 40 years later. I was afraid of this animation when I was a kid. The windmill threatening to collapse with the storm, and the mother bird trying to protect her eggs scared me a lot. And I watched it all today with the same feelings I had when I was a kid. Which proves that this animation is indeed a timeless masterpiece.
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ahh the good old days...pure magic
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I've always loved this cartoon. It tells a story without saying a word.
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I miss this kind of animation.....sigh....
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I really like how perpetually irritated the owl looks, he's not scared, just sick of the weather.
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This cartoon is a work of art.
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The detailing and delineation are simply incredible. The artists and animators were supremely talented.
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They shortened this when they played it on the Disney channel when I was a kid, it started with the storm and ended shortly after the lightning bolt, and all I can say TWENTY YEARS. TWENTY FREAKIN YEARS wondering if the little birdie and her eggs were okay, and now as I am going into my third year of college in the fall, I'm going to sleep like an angel tonight having FINALLY seen a happy ending for the little blue birdie and her little babies!!1! ;_; I can now move on in my adulthood...
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This is simple everything. Nothing will ever beat this cartoon. It is just everything. I remember crying while the storm was happening. I was so scared for the baby birds and their mother! But then they had an happy ending so as the other animals!!!! I just love this so much!
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I believe the most poignant difference between hand - drawn and CGI is the fact you can watch a hand drawn animation a dozen times and STILL manage to find something different you didn't notice before. The creativity is phenomenal and I truly wish we had another Walt Disney today. He hired the best and he was the best!
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I saw this the first time on b&w TV when I was a pre-school kid in the early 1950s. It made such an impression on me that I still vividly remember it with fondness now that I'm in my mid 70s. The creativity, beautiful animation and plain heart it showed is rare today.
