Animation &Disney &Frame Grabs 11 Jul 2009 08:40 am
Whoopee w/names
- Before there was video tape (which means before there were dvds), there was only 16mm film that you could project in your own home. I had (and still have) a nice collection of decaying movies and used to show these often. One of the regulars to show and watch and laugh at was the great Mickey short, The Whoopee Party. Everyone loved this short, no matter how many times we watched it. It’s a great film!
Hans Perk recently posted the drafts for this gem of a film on his amazing resource of a site, A Film LA. (Interesting that they spell the title “Whoopie” in the drafts, but use “Whoopee” on the title card.) Having produced a couple of posts full of frame grabs from this short, I decided to go back and add the animators’ names as sort of a mosaic, similar to what Mark Mayerson has invented in the blogosphere.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
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1.Hardie Gramatky | 2.Eddie Donnelly | 3.Les Clark
4.Les Clark | 22. Dave Hand
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23. 24. 25. Dave Hand
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26. 27. Dave Hand
28. SA1 Hardie Gramatky | 28A. SA4 Les Clark | 29. SA1 Hardie Greamatky
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30. 30A. 31. Dave Hand
32. SA 1. Hardie Gramatky | 33. SA 31 Dave Hand
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37. 38. Johnny Cannon
39. Johnny Cannon | 40. Hardcie Gramatky | 41. Norm Ferguson
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41. (cont.) Norm Ferguson | 42. “Frenchy” de Trémaudan
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43. Norm Ferguson | 44. “Frenchy” de Trémaudan | 45. Ben Sharpsteen
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46. (cont.) 47. 48. Ben Sharpsteen
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49. Ben Sharpsteen | 50. Tom Palmer | 51. Norm Ferguson
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52. 53. 54. Ben Sharpsteen
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55. 56. Ben Sharpsteen
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56A. Ben Sharpsteen
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57. Ben Sharpsteen | 58. “Frenchy” de Trémaudan | 59. Tom Palmer
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60. 61. 62. Tom Palmer
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62. (cont.) 63. Tom Palmer
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64. Tom Palmer | 65. “Frenchy” de Trémaudan | 66. Jack King
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69. Jack King | 70. Dick Lundy | 71. Eddie Donnelly
72. Eddie Donnelly | 73. Dick Lundy | 74. 75. Dick Lundy
on 11 Jul 2009 at 11:34 am 1.Swinton Scott said …
Great post, interesting to see the layouts and the finished scenes together. Whenever I see these old films, I have to remind myself, they only had about six levels of animation cells for these shots.
on 11 Jul 2009 at 1:00 pm 2.Ricardo Cantoral said …
“The Whoopee Party”. Wow, that name is kinda messed up, isn’t it ?
on 11 Jul 2009 at 5:19 pm 3.Larry Levine said …
Awesome images!!!
on 11 Jul 2009 at 10:12 pm 4.Gene Hole said …
wow, great breakdown! I love seeing the layouts and rough work along side screencaps from the finished product! those are some beautiful drawings. Thanks for taking time to put this together!
on 14 Jul 2009 at 7:54 pm 5.Scott said …
Crazy how this Era of Disney looks infinitely better in rough and pencil form then the final result, well at least two my eyes.
on 14 Jul 2009 at 8:35 pm 6.Lorelei said …
Woweee! This is awesome stuff! Thanks so much for giving us all of these great images and information.