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3 LITTLE PIGS
The Production of Animated Cartoons — Part 2
By WALTER W. HUBBARD
4E Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf will be back on the screen in a new Walt Disney Silly Sym phony early in February. This in spite of the fact that Walter has added to his duties; he’s now' the papa of baby girl.
Disney has just informed the home office of United Artists, the company which releases his films, that while he will
not
build an entire series of pictures around the pig and wolf characters, he has struck upon an idea to
continue their adventures in a Silly Symphony cartoon ideally suited to their particular talents.
The screen cartoonist intends to bring them back in the story of Little Bed Riding Hood, who meets the Big Bad Wolf on the way to visit her grandmother in the woods. The Three .Little Pigs are being introduced as friends of Red Riding Hood. She has to pass their house to get to the home of her grandmother. The practical little pig warns her to beware of the Big Bad Wolf, but the other two little pigs laugh and tell her not to be afraid that the wolf is a big sissy.
The Three Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood meet the Big Bad Wolf in the woods, and two of the pigs turn tail and run fast back to their home, leaving Little Red Riding Hood at the mercy of the wolf. The little
ail-1 f>«rane<s but Recording an animated cartoon; trap drummer’s table in center.
’’J j’ i Note the head-phones used by each member of the orchestra.
the rest of the
original story is carried out with the wolf dressed in the grandmother’s night clothes in bed at the old lady’s house.
The two little pigs have arrived at their brother’s house and dived under the bed to hide, while the practical little brother goes to the rescue o f
Little Red Riding Hood. After all is safe and the Big Bad Wolf has gone howling over the hill, the two little lazy brothers come dancing back They sing their little song while Red Riding Hood plays the organ as the brave little brother pumps it.
Disney’s musical staff has already finished work on a score for the new picture, and if the songs fit they will be used in the same manner to enhance the action as was “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” in “Three Little Pigs.”
Naturally the second edition of this series of “porky pictures” will be iri color, and a brief history of that branch of the technique will add interest to our story. Scientific achievement marks the course followed by Technicolor from the time of the old Kinemacolor process pictures of 1909 up to the present perfection to be seen in the celebrated Walt Disney “Silly Symphonies,” now produced in Technicolor.
At first all color effects depended upon an alternation of red and green pictures on the screen in such rapid succession that they fused together in the eye. The first commercial motion picture positive having the color actually on the film was manufactured by the Prizma Company. Intensive work on the part of the Technicolor group was begun in 1915. In 1917 the first Technicolor pictures were
shown publicly.
Among the early important feature productions employing an extensive amount of Technicolor film, may be mentioned, “The Ten Commandments,” “Ben Hur,” and “T h e King of
Kings.
leading
The spirits in the ( Continued on page 42)