..thought this was very interesting..
Disney's double take as picture recycling revealedBy MILES ERWIN - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Animation can be an extremely laborious business, so who can blame cartoon wizards at Walt Disney for trying to lighten the load for a hard-working staff?
To churn out more films quickly, Disney cunningly decided to 'recycle' (some may say rip off) some of the animation sequences from his best loved films.
Animators would breathe new life into old acetates by tracing over the characters with new ones, while maintaining the moves of the original.
The technique is called rotoscoping and industry insiders say it is a legitimate method of cutting costs in movie-making. So, if you thought the likes of Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book and Cinderella felt strangely repetitive, you were on to something.
It has been known for some time that much of Disney's 1973 Robin Hood movie was a copy of previous films at a time when the studio was short on cash, but most people were unaware of such wholesale copying until it was exposed on YouTube.
The revelation has been greeted with a mixed response - with some fans applauding Disney's ingenuity and others complaining their childhood was a lie.
'Oh my God, it's like discovering that aliens exist,' said one user on discovering the copying. 'This has ruined by innocence,' said another.
'Robin Hood was made for a low budget, so they stole from themselves a lot,' one user added. 'Genius,' another said.
Two of a kind: Mowgli and Arthur from The Sword In The Stone receive the same treatment
Winnie the Pooh’s sidekick Christopher Robin strikes a pose...
...that Mowgli did ten years earlier in the 1967 classic The Jungle Book
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOIrXGd51jE[/youtube]
