A short 2-page Story Notes document covering the soup sequence, discussing action and gags. One of the gags they discuss is a dwarf's hat going up and down while he eats. The "hat gag" is Disney's oldest and most often used gag. It first appears in Walt's Kansas City days,... read more →
Sep
15
Sep
08
Sometime, in the yet to come… The Apparatus — copyright 2020 Sky Danley Productions
Sep
01
A straight forward story conference on Snow White's Cleaning Sequence, where it's mostly Walt commenting on and approving story department sketches of gags:
Aug
25
Sometime, in the yet to come… The Apparatus — copyright 2020 Sky Danley Productions
Aug
18
It appears that this story conference was supplemented with a lot of storyboard sketches, which we don't have, but you can pretty much follow the thread without them. A lot of voice people also present. One of the listed participants is "Buchanan," who I'm assuming is Stuart Buchanan, the voice... read more →
Aug
11
This is a story CONFERENCE, not the typical story MEETING. More participants are invited, from outside the story department. It it appears that a request was previously sent out requesting ideas for story improvement (PLUS-ing) of the Cleaning Sequence. My favorite visual "PLUS-ing" gag came from Phil: When the little... read more →
Aug
04
As the Disney studio enters 1936, the story department is continuing the development of the Snow White's Entertainment Sequence. I don't want to recap the whole document because it's a primary source and speaks for itself, but I'll say it again, I'm amazed at the ability of Walt and his... read more →
Jul
21
Sometime, in the yet to come… The Apparatus — copyright 2020 Sky Danley Productions
Jul
14
I'm in the process of recording music for my 16-minute cartoon, so I refreshed myself with this historic Disney Music Department Lecture that was referenced in "Walt's November 23rd, 1935 memo to Don Graham" that I posted 2-weeks ago: "I think a good study of music would be indispensable to... read more →
Jul
07
Sometime, in the yet to come… The Apparatus — copyright 2020 Sky Danley Productions