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Disney's Silly Symphonies
Release dates 1929-1939
Country : USA
Running time : 5-10 mins approx
Genre : Animation
Best examples : The Skeleton Dance, Flowers and Trees, The Three Little Pigs, The Grasshopper and the Ants, Music Land
Despite the huge success of Mickey Mouse Walt Disney started a new series of animated shorts in 1929. He wanted a series using music instead of a central character the result was the most innovative animated shorts in film history, these films remain highly entertaining and paved the way for the classic Disney animated features with their pioneering use of colour, the multi-plane camera and hit parade tunes (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ? from The Three Little Pigs gave people hope in the midst of the Depression).
Release dates 1929-1939
Country : USA
Running time : 5-10 mins approx
Genre : Animation
Best examples : The Skeleton Dance, Flowers and Trees, The Three Little Pigs, The Grasshopper and the Ants, Music Land
Despite the huge success of Mickey Mouse Walt Disney started a new series of animated shorts in 1929. He wanted a series using music instead of a central character the result was the most innovative animated shorts in film history, these films remain highly entertaining and paved the way for the classic Disney animated features with their pioneering use of colour, the multi-plane camera and hit parade tunes (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ? from The Three Little Pigs gave people hope in the midst of the Depression).
There were 75 Silly Symphonies made between 1929 and 1939. The first was The Skeleton Dance, the first in colour was Flowers and Trees, the first to use the multi plane camera which gave extra depth to animation was The Old Mill.
Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphony, The Wise Little Hen.
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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