If you ’ve ever thought to yourself that Baloo fromThe Jungle Book(1967 ) and Little John fromRobin Hood(1973 ) wait spookily alike , that ’s because the latter was directly copied from the former . Ahead of International Animation Day on October 28 , theCartoon HangoverYouTube transmission channel has undertake the barbellate offspring of why Disney — and many other film studio , for that matter — recycled one-time subject matter .
It can all be traced back toSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937 ) , which was partially made through rotoscoping . This technique involved decipher over springy - action scene to make the spiritedness look more realistic , and it was a vulgar exercise in the early days of film . ( In more recent years , Richard Linklater did it with 2001’sWaking Lifeand 2006’sA Scanner Darkly . ) That launch the floodgates , and begin with Disney’sDumboin 1941 , studio apartment directors settle to start copying scenes from earlier Disney moving picture .
This change in life ism followed a serial of commercial losses — includingPinocchio , Fantasia , andBambi , all of which go over budget — and the practice was purportedly done to save fourth dimension and money . However , former Disney vitaliser Floyd Norman tells Cartoon Hangover it actually made their jobs more hard .
“ I do n’t call up it saved much time and I do n’t think it redeem much money because it was more of a hassle to go labor this previous footage out of the archive , ” he say . “ It would ’ve been gentle to just baby-sit down and animate a new scene than go back and seek to retrofit all this old poppycock to something Modern . ”
Norman say he does n’t think Walt Disney even notice that shot were being reprocess because “ his psyche was always on the fully grown picture . ” The exercise continue after Disney ’s death , and some of the worst wrongdoer areThe Jungle Book , Robin Hood , andThe Sword in the Stone(1963 ) . Of course , after the upgrade of the VHS mag tape , the practice became risky because hoi polloi start watching and rewatching their favorite Disney motion picture . In other words , fans were more likely to find the recycled scenes .
Check out Cartoon Hangover ’s video below to see if any of your favourite Disney scene or character have been lifted from another motion picture .
