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Early atmosphere sketch for "The Aristocats ." "REMEMBER THE FINE OLD DAYS WHEN WE DANCED ALL NIGHT/' says Monsieur Georges Hautecourt, a lawyer, who has come to make out Madame Bonfamille's will. Scene is from Walt Disney Productions' ‘ The Aristocats," new feature-length cartoon set in Paris circa 1910 about a family of cats that inherits a fortune. civilization at the end of the picture until practically everything else was finished. The way it worked out proved a stroke of luck — or genius on Walt’s part who finished off the story.” This technique of hit or miss is fine when you have someone like Walt Disney to pull the chesnuts out of the fire, but with him gone, some better way had to be found. In “Jungle Book” a rino was animated and extensive work done on it until it was discovered it wouldn’t fit into the story. “This was a lot of money and effort out the window. This type of thing is precisely what we were out to eliminate.” Reitherman and Hibler feel pleased with their work, both in post production and afterward. “We’ve developed stronger transitions for a solid continuity throughout the picture, instead of a piecework of sequences. And we’ve got a hell of an original tale that lends itself to this more closely than most of the past cartoon stories.” Past films from the Disney lot won more Academy Awards than any other studio for all their faults in production, but it is now hoped the new techniques will speed up the process and improve tfie end result. As it is, “The Aristocats” has been in production for almost four years. No matter what course is persued and no matter how much modern technology has helped to speed the work of animation up, a feature length movie is an expensive and elaborate undertaking — and a big risk. Both in the production stages anti at the box office. The whole Disney team has been trying to keep the picture on budget, and it appears this is close to reality. It will cost about $4,000,000 to do “The Aristocats,” which is approximately $1,000,000 less than “Jungle Book”. It is highly likely the old hit-and-miss methods of the past, with individual groups working on certain parts of a film almost independent of each other is over at Disney Studios. Like the rest of the industry, the animation complex has had to watch costs and be realistic in their approaches to new products as it is possible to be. New refinements have allowed certain production cost to be trimmed, but none of the traditional Walt Disney quality is compromised. When it is released, “The Aristocats” will probably be one of the studios biggest money makers and most successful animated features. Even though it was made “A.D.” it will still have that magic touch of charm characteristic of the man who made millions laugh and cry with animated drawings. Things are changing in Burbank, but not as much as people might think. There are a few studios in Hollywood that haven’t turned to sex as a means of staying in business and Walt Disney Productions is one of the best. Page 9