GD 1 History of Animation
According to Maltin on page 110, the "most admirable trait of the Fleischer Popeyes was..."
...dogged refusal to fall into a formula trap."
According to the Maltin (pg. 40), when it came time to make The Three Little Pigs in 1933, Walt emphasized to the animators that he wanted...
..strong personalities for the characters.
According to Maltin (p.226), the Merrie Melodies series was "designed specifically..."
.to feature songs from the Warner Bros inventory."
As discussed in the video in Lecture 3, science has determined the frame rate (FPS) at which we begin to be to "lose awareness of the interval (between separate images), and begin to see apparent motion" occurs at...
10 fps (frames per second)
As discussed in the video in Lecture 3, the frame rate (FPS) for smooth, "standard full speed" animation is:
24 Frames Per Second
In the production of Snow White, how long did it take the four animators to complete the "Heigh Ho" sequence wherein the dwarfs march home from the mine?
6 months
According to Maltin, to help the Pinocchio animators accurately animate Monstro the whale, no expense was spared. To assist the animators, all of the following occurred
A five foot long minature whale skeleton was constructed A model of a whale's rib cage and lungs were constructed to simulate its breathing Clay models were made and painted
As discussed in Of Mice and Magic on page 43, Walt summarized the qualities that make a good animator. They include all of the following EXCEPT:
An understanding of Persistence of Vision
Which popular character was substantially revised by the Fleischer Studios after the Hays Code (aka Production Code) went into effect in the early 1930s?
Betty Boop
Which of the following series was not produced by Margaret Winkler
Betty Boop she produced alice comedies, out of the inkwell w koko and felix the cat
Which two famous animators were part of Tex Avery's animation crew at Warner Bros.?
Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones
In the textbook, it discusses the important work done by J.R. Bray in the early days of animation. Which of the following "is considered the first commercial-cartoon release"?
Colonel Heeza Liar in Africa
According to Maltin, although Mickey Mouse was popular, a problem was that he had a non-descript personality. Which of the following was NOT used to address this problem?
Create a "Character Manager" at the studio to manage development of the top characters
Which of the following most accurately describes the Fleischer Studio organization? (Remember, some quiz questions come from the lectures in the current module.)
Dave Fleischer managed the creative side; Max managed the business side
According to Maltin, early Betty Boop shorts demonstrate the essential difference between Fleischer's cartoons and Disney cartoons, which is... (The section on Betty Boop starts on page 100.)
Disney's deals with a child's natural fears; Fleischer's depicts adult traumas and emotions
According to Leonard Maltin (the author of our textbook), who "effected the single greatest change in cartoon production" by utilizing celluloid (cels) as part of the animation process?
Earl Hurd
According to our textbook, which of the following statements is true about the multiplane camera?
Engineers were needed to figure out the mathematics of drawing and photographing the animation shot on the multiplane camera
According to textbook, which of the following IS true statement about the Disney strike of 1941:
Fewer people on the Disney staff had no particular passion for the cartoon medium.Walt fired union-activists at the studio in an attempt to prevent a strike As the studio expanded to factory proportions, fewer workers had less direct contact with Walt
According to this week's lecture, besides the U.S., in what other country was early animation and film making popular?
France
Which of the following best summarizes the Bray-Hurd Patent Trust?
Hurd came up with the technique of using cells. The Bray-Hurd Patent Trust demanded license fees from every studio who used their techniques. Bray came up with the technique of printing the background art on one layer, and drawing the part that moved (such as the character) on a separate layer.
According to Maltin (pg. 35), which of the following statements is TRUE about the integration of sound and animation in Steamboat Willie, Gallopin' Gaucho and Plane Crazy?
In Plane Crazy and Gallopin' Gaucho, there is no fusion between sound and pictures. C. In Steamboat Willie, the musical beats were mathematically related to film speed.
What was unique about the Fleischer's short, My Old Kentucky Home? (Turn to page 480 to locate this topic by using the Index at the back of the book.)
It featured synchronized sound years before Disney's Steamboat Willie
According to Maltin (pages 83 and 84), why does Max Fleischer remain an unsung hero in the history of animated cartoons?
Max was not a good businessman Max was not a good promoter Max had a modest outlook for his studio
Who created most of the character's voices in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, and became "the studio's leading voice expert"?
Mel Blanc
As discussed in the lecture and the textbook, most early American animators had a similar occupation before working in animation. What was that occupation?
Newspaper illustrator or cartoonist
According to Maltin on page 30, the first "Alice" short was an undisguised attempt to borrow an idea from another successful series. Name that series.
Out of the Inkwell
As discussed in the lecture, many newspaper cartoonists tried to emulate McCay's success with Gertie, but found the workload overwhelming because of unrealistic deadlines. Which of these techniques was NOT used as a shortcut to meet those deadlines in the early days of animation?
Outsourcing most of the work to cheaper foreign labor sources in Mexico and Korea
During the 1920s, who took credit for all of the Felix animated shorts? (Remember, quiz questions come from the textbook readings, as well as the lectures in the current module. Check there.)
Pat Sullivan
Why did Disney stop working on the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series?
Producer Charles Mintz offered him less money
After the success of Steamboat Willie, a new cartoon series was proposed to Walt Disney by an acquaintance from Kansas City named Carl Stalling. What was the name of this new series?
Silly Symphonies
Which of the following is NOT true about composer Carl Stalling, who created the music for Warner Bros. cartoons during the Golden Age?
Stalling first met Walt Disney in New York when he was working for Charles Mintz.
When contracted to produce the Merrie Melodies series, the Warner brothers provided Leon Schlesinger with a ramshackle building to be used for an animation studio. That building soon became known as:
Termite Terrace
Which of the following Warner Bros. animators did NOT work for Walt Disney?
Tex Avery but they did : Friz Freleng Hugh Harmon Rudolf Ising
Name the sci-fi movie that used the same technique invented by Muybridge to capture an image of a running horse in the 1870s.
The Matrix
On page 240, Maltin summarizes how cartoons were produced at Warner Brothers. Which of the following is a true statement?
The Warners' cartoons were produced in a true spirit of collaboration. Each director had the freedom to choose or reject ideas as he pleased. Directors at the studio were not specifically charged with the task of inventing new star characters.
According to the textbook (p.56), which of the following is a true statement about the animation of the character of Snow White?
The animation of Snow White required a lead animator and five assistant animators
Which of these statements is NOT true about Winsor McCay?
The first animation McCay created was Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914
According to Maltin (p.239), who are "the unsung heroes of cartoon history"?
The gag writers at Warner Brothers
According to the textbook (p. 57), all the effort that went into producing Snow White resulted in;
The songs in the film became hits
According to Maltin (pages 32 & 33), Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts were recognized by others in the industry as having "something more" to them than the typical cartoon of the day. Which of the following visual innovations is NOT discussed in the textbook as an example of how these Oswald shorts were unique?
The use of live action footage
Walt Disney's trip to New York to meet Charles Mintz is a watershed moment in animation. According to Maltin, which of the following IS an outcome of this historic meeting?
Walt resolved never to relinquish ownership of his films again Walt had an agitated phone call that confirmed nearly all of his artists were leaving Ub Iwerks drew some sketches of a rodent as a possible replacement character
According to this week's lecture, what was the "First Big Bang" in the history of animation
Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur
According to the textbook (pg. 12), three main cartoon studios emerged in New York during the early days of animation. Which of the following is NOT one of those three studios?
Winsor McCay's studio
Following Fantasia, Disney's prospects were uncertain because of many factors (p.63). According to Maltin, the factors contributing to this uncertainty included
World War II cut off profits from foreign markets Fantasia was commercial failure, and received heavy criticism from many quarters. Color film stock was not available due to wartime shortages
According to the Maltin (p. 64), Walt Disney's "early experiences with crooked distributors and disloyal employees formed Walt's behavior as a manager at the studio before the strike." These formative experiences turned Walt into...
a benevolent despot
According to our textbook's author, Leonard Maltin, what was "the key to Felix's success" (p.24) that made him the greatest star of the cartoon era?
a distinctive personality
Typically, weekly film programmes included:
cartoons two feature films trailers
In Fantasia, Mickey Mouse was redesigned. What was changed about the design of his character?
eye w pupil
To get the Fleischers to make a series of Superman cartoons, Paramount ageed to...
pay $100,000 a cartoon (four times the price of an average cartoon!)
Raoul Barre invented something that helped animators "register" their drawings, so that each successive drawing was in perfect alignment with the one before. What was that invention?
peg system
From the video in Lecture 1, which optical toy - or toys - utilized a mirror to view the "animated" image?
phenakistascope, praxinoscope
According to Maltin, Walt had hoped to produce Snow White for a total of $250,000, but the final price tag was...
six times that amount
According to Maltin (p.226), although they were initially well-liked at the time of their release, "the serious fault with Harman & Ising cartoons was
that they did not innovate or improve."
Gestalt is the phenomena in which...
the brain tries to make sense of an image by connecting separate elements into a unified whole
The Fleischer Studio produced two animated feature films. The financial success of both films was negatively impacted by which event? (The section of the chapter that discusses their feature films starts on page115.)
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