On this night before Christmas in the year 2020, I thought we'd flash back 87 years to the Walt Disney Studio's 1933 Silly Symphony, The Night Before Christmas. For each... read more →
This story conference dealt with the ALONE IN THE WOODS SEQUENCE, a continuation of the story conference they held 6-days prior, which transcript I posted two weeks ago. In this... read more →
This excerpt, more than anything, shows Walt's optimism for life, and more than anything else, this evident optimism, in my opinion, is what propelled his success: "Get the thought that... read more →
Just a couple of comments of the Disney story structure method that came out in this meeting: Early on, Walt commented both "Get the contrast in there" and "that is... read more →
From a story perspective, I did find the following bit interesting: "Maybe you could have a broken rake for the combing of his beard." When studying creativity, there's a great... read more →
This document is a lengthy but ideal example of the great effort Walt put into creating his stories. It starts out with a story continuity, and then goes into a... read more →
Walt and his Story Department continue working out the Soup Sequence. It starts out with an outline followed by a discussion. Note Walt does not want "too much dialogue" in... read more →
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... read more →
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:
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... read more →
