It's worth pointing out that Walt was one of the inventors of this camera, as well as all his other roles in making the company's art. Concepts we have today like Photoshop layers and CSS stacking contexts are direct descendants of this invention.
These are definitely techniques that you take for granted, even moreso now with computer animation. I definitely am impressed now when I see scenes like the opening of Sleeping Beauty as the camera zooms in on the inside of the castle. My wife and kids get confused at this point as to what I'm making such a big deal about.
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You can see one of these multiplane cameras on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco.
I wonder when and why they stopped making films like these. I've been enjoying watching Behind the Attraction and The Imagineering Story on Disney+ with my kids. They are full of these old films of Walt going over their ideas and explaining the things they are and have built. It's a shame that stopped.
From watching, it seems this was a clip of a larger presentation. I spent some time trying to find a longer version but had no luck.
Anyone perhaps know what this was from?
I never grew up with Disney as a big part of my life so it wasn’t until later that I learned about Walt, and all the folks related to the work at Disney and some of the amazing things they did.
I really didn’t know of all the cool technology and etc they made.
I feel like movies in the past were so much more technically amazing. I mean, sure they look a hundred times more amazing now, but the amount of human physical effort involved (as opposed to ‘butts in seats’) was immense.
What's old is new again!
Wow! Incredibly fascinated to see 1957 tech make such fascinating animations! It’s so time consuming. Imagine the patience to take those pictures frame by frame
Not to be confused with the yellow prism camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
Good stuff. Back in the day technical innovation and risk taking was an integral part of Disney... I miss those days. How far the house of mouse has fallen.
I highly enjoy watching these old instructional documentaries even if the tech is obsolete by now. There’s something that makes old tech a lot more graspable as a concept even if you’re not familiar with the technology.
I absolutely love the background music here.
What's this genre called?
Big Band?
I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Dali and Disney tried to get something together.
Why did they go vertical? Would it have been easier going horizontal?
Leonel
You can go see one in person, it sticks through the floor of the Disney Family Museum in the Presidio. There is lots of animation history in that building. If you just wanna see the camera the top part pokes into the gift shop which you don't need admission to go into