Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957) 

Shit so real, it blew Mickey's mind.

I came to the same conclusion, just now.

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deltafour1212 they truly were

until the little mermaid ... last cartoon fully hand drawn....

difference between Disney's real animation and your digital recreations? Your's sucks and there's didn't. I don't care if you're Michelangelo, real vs phoney, real will always win.

residentgiant right!

mopenstein thats a way of thinking that limits innovation. They used technology to achieve this effect. A digital computer, is very clearly a piece of technology. You cannot decide which art is real or not.

My eyeballs send signals to my brain that let me know what looks great and what looks terrible. Things that are real will always be better than imaginary 1's and 0's.

mopenstein This video. Is formatted using technology. Full of 1's and 0's. Merely a projection of what seems real. Your argument becomes invalid because of this. There is no such thing as an imaginary 1 and 0. They are all very real data that can be used to assemble readable information. If you dare say that 1's and 0's are but imaginary, we can also say the DNA's (the stuff that creates us) T, A, C, and G are imaginary. It is fair to say that you are just biased or prefer the traditional style of media. You musn't create illogical arguments that try to twist words and meaning to fit your opinions.

Except that he copied Lotte Reiniger design and gave no credit for it. There's no such thing as a honest successfull business man.

@@GabrielMarques001 I believe Reiniger only created an early version of the multiplane camera, Ub Iwerks Invented the definite version. That's just what I think.

What are you even talking about? He didn't invent the multiplane camera, he wasn't even close to the first to use it in animation. He was a businessman, this is like giving the CEO credit for what a team of engineers accomplished.

Yeah. Fantasia is especially impressive in the visual department. All that gorgeous synchronized imagery is amazing. It is made all the more impressive that all of that was done way before CG. Wow! The only problem is that the dinosaurs look weird. However I can accept that as being a product of the time. The dinosaur part is still really cool in showing natural history, and it comes with awesome music. It is my favorite part of the whole movie. Man all those cartoon dinosaurs are so awesome. Maybe that is a precursor to Land Before Time. Land Before Time is awesome too. It is my favorite animated movie that isn't Disney.

exactly. he did not invented shiot. he gets the credit, yet he did nothing and brought nothing to the table @@mingusmofaz5898

@cesarjimenezanimator Hey, it's interesting to find you here. If you remember making this comment 9 years ago. Well, I might have seen this video before, but I never commented.

@@SuperCartoonist Heya! How're ya doing?

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@@JorgetePanete nice joke

PeopleCanFly23 both technics are amazing

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very different stuff mate

It angers me that that kind of comment would get so many upvotes. No. This is not better than *good* computer generated graphics.

It's an opinion, if he finds it better then 3D, thats his opinion. Tbh, i like the look of that background of Bambi more then some recent Disney movies. I prefer anime over 'proper' 3D animated characters. 3D might be more realistic if done properly, but that does NOT make it better. Looking at games: Pubg is more realistic then Fortnite. Dota is more 'realistic' the LoL (turning etc). But still its LoL that is the most played Moba and Fortnite the most played battle royale game. So generally people find those better games even though its less realistic.

nez pheew 6 years ago sience you made this comment. Time really flies!

@@viggoaleskog 8 fucking YEARS

@@viggoaleskog In that time some kid would born and grow up WOW

@@theowlhouseseason3213 yee dogg

@@viggoaleskog Will just accept it as something meaningful cuz i didnt understand how wolf-like canids related to our rave but ok

I'm tak'n it back 'naw

You don't have to be such a Dick over it!

Nineveh how's that

Richard MacLean 😂😂😂

His name is Richard like you

Good Gordon I know u commented this a year ago and probably don't remember making it I thought I would answer it. This was probably originally from a VHS tape and that is probably a glitch in the film.

luthien hearter 2 years*

its probably a mistake during the filming process

Maybe it’s an advance form of watermark?

Zero Cool yes it does.

spacebug30 definitely. Disney should just be Disney, and leave the 3D to Pixar.

You know how much time and money that would take? That's one of the reasons they moved to digital.

Drew R Disney is supposed to be about the love for 2D animation, that’s the reason Walt created the company. Too bad the current animators are too lazy and just want money

Drew R they ment they could it digitally but still the same style PLUS 3D IS REALLY LONG TO MAKE SO GET UR FACTS STRAIGHT

@@dr6770 that company could buy an entire country with how much money they have, yet a 2D movie would be a great concern?

Bambi's Opening Sequence Forest

He was moving it the wrong way...

KnowFuture Jay NO SECOND CHANCES!

Don’t be a dick

Allen: "How about cutting me some f*cking slack?! My wife left me, my kids hate me, and I'm an alcoholic. There! Are you happy now?!"

Sorry, dick

Well I have some news for you, walt disney was as bad to worse that what we have now

Disney as a Company was back then for sure more inspiring and creative. But let's not kid each other, Walt himself was always a Corporate big guy capitalist. As much as I admire him...

@@gregorsamsa2271He at least cared then. It’s no where near what we have now.

@@julienlinconnuWalt also lived in a different time and society from us. We cannot judge people from the past with the views we have today, otherwise everyone is bad. Walt did some truly inspiring stuff, yet he may have done some bad stuff. What matters to me is that he cared about the work he was doing and who he was doing it for.

@@gregorsamsa2271 Walt also was a racist anti-semite

Just like how they can use cheap plastics to make products the “same quality” as what our grandparents had

That's EXACTLY what I wanted to say...

The first rule of Fight Club is: You do NOT talk about Fight Club.

esotericVideos Don't worry he got fired.

esotericVideos around early 1:51,he was at two places at the same time

serialoverflow just saw this in 2019 and same.

callmechia just saw this in 2020 and same

Jem Page Yeah but his boss doesn't need to be such a dick

DavidtheWavid this is gold cause his name is dick.

yes

maybe

100k each some more than others. Your soul goes to the illuminati and the nazi organization from walt disney himself.

You can find frequently auctions with frames on eBay

Ralph Bakshi's cels from Lord of the Rings are selling for $200-300 each. Saw a touring exhibit of someone's personal collection. It had a computer used to animate Tron, an original book of Fantasia music, and a single cel of Donald Duck. Apparently those were all worth about the same. Not sure how much but it's gotta be a lot.

no

Probably dead...

Some say... Allan is still moving things the wrong way.

They dead

Likely dead

Lying in the ground in peace

Elyssae always magic when Walt Disney is involved to explain it :)

escalatedquickly420 Especially with Walt.

Keep in mind that they're shooting frame by frame, so they were able to perform much longer exposures than if they were shooting live action. From this video, it looks like they took about a 3 second exposure, which certainly means stopping down is possible.

They are! I believe I saw that Snow White multiplane when I went to the Norman Rockwell Museum for a limited exhibition. A shame we couldn't take pictures.

Roy Unit they seem to be at the edges that wouldn't be visible on the camera

Imagine a spider walking on it and accidently got filmed. Now that would look scary as hell :D

@@bonbonpony I'm sure they'd notice and wait for it to pass. Or you'd miss it while watching the movie anyway.

@@saintfisuto1072 I've seen an anime with an ugly hair being visible on the screen throughout multiple scenes and multiple episodes ("Chargeman Ken"), so stuff like that happens sometimes, especially if animators don't care ;)

That thing being . . . nostalgia

ALRIGHT WE GET IT! 2D Is great. But 3D/CGI Animation still takes a lot of time to do too. And some stuff Are still done in 2D Too. Like Storyboards and Character Design

@@Jamie-tx7pnnah, they felt real - not cheap and slapped together.

Good Gordon Me too but I do not want them to attack me if I made one character/ background wrong ovo

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+Harry Kemball Lucky you. Must have great memories of that.

or shorts at least.

or Japanese animation, before computers they use the same technique too.

Tick mark

Except that he didn't invent the multiplane camera. Research the German film maker Lotte Reiniger, who invented the multiplane camera a decade before Disney claimed to. Oh, and she also created the first full colour cel animation.

​@@landscapedetective4064 The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the first color tinting silhouette animated film and the oldest surviving animated feature film, but not cel, cel is traditional animation (or hand-drawn cartoons). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full-length cel animated feature film released in Technicolor. And is true that Disney was not the first to invent a multiplane camera, this was Lotte Reiniger, but Disney created his own version independently and further refined it, giving it a more sophisticated use like never seen before. For me, both are capitals figures in the History of animation, along with other great names like Max Fleischer, Ub Iwerks, Winsor McCay, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Oscar Fischinger, Quirino Cristiani, Osamu Tezuka or Hayao Miyazaki.

Marbles471 pheew 6 years ago sience you made this comment. Time really flies!

Yeaaaah man. If you didn't comment i wouldn't have even noticed how old this is!

The thing that is mind-numbing to me is it is even easier now than ever to make procedural backgrounds for flat surfaces to give them either subtle or very noticeable geometry, like brick patterns, random rain damage, wood grains and so on. Why the hell do more people not use this? It's trivial to do. It's a handful of clicks and entering numbers and you now have a detailed background over a flat color. If you want to go further, you can layer some shadow layers or light sources on top to give a more 3D look if you want that too. Flat is just so boring.

Wait is that, no way! It’s felicitea!!!

I disagree, Allan does one great impression of a robot.

H O W S T H A T

The actors are the animators who draw each charactor.

the voice actors are the actors... everyone behind the animation are ARTIST

This is called revolution!

This was not the actual shoot, rather a staged reenactment for documental purposes...

Alec Wilson It's bound to happen, the cameras were old (50s, they glitched a lot), and human error. Either way, I feel it turned out REALLY well.

it had nothing to do with the camera mate. its because the guy shooting the frames obviously at one point put the wrong frame under the camera.

Alec Wilson I also mentioned human error.

Yes, something was shot out of order. Good eye, Alec. AND this little bit of Mickey animation was done just for the TV show. Lower budget and not the same crew that was making features. And the general public had no way to stop frame stuff in the '50s.

+Alec Wilson Nothing wrong. Just a Fight Club reference.

KevinGrahamArt well, you know what they say. As time goes by, things change or something like that. But it would be nice to see them use these techniques again. I don't really mind their newer ways of animation.

Hand drawn animations can be done on computer with the same quality as a multiplane camera only without the extreme cost of glass and oil

The thing is not that it's not possible to do on modern computers, but that it's not worth for animation studios. Why bother making drawn animations when you can do some 3D Animations and people watch it anyways ? The target market doesn't even seem to care so why don't stick with cheap 3D Animations. Sure they're not as charming, but when it comes to a business, it makes sense. Obviously, I dislike cheap 3D animations too, but I can see why they're being used so often and that's why I can accept it. We can't really blame anyone here. But yeah, it's sad. (I'm not saying that 3D art is bad, I'm going to study 3D Animation and Game Design next summer, but I also know that it's way easier and therefore cheaper than drawn animations)

JustCommentingYourComments 3D animations are not cheap at all, and they aren't easy to make either. The people who work with 3D are also artists. As much as I enjoy 2D animation more than 3D, it's still too far of a stretch to discredit 3D anination like that.

I think Disney would be happy with the innovation and progress.

Sherm Cohen pheew 6 years ago sience you made this comment. Time really flies!

Bambi - "Love is a Song"

@@viggoaleskog Bambi - "Love is a Song"

@@anildutt992 Do you know the music playing at 5:15?

@@Letter_J the song name is "Love is a Song" from Bambi Movie . You are welcome.

yes, i feel that too emotional , Since 8 months i have been searching for that chorus , could you please tell what is the name of that " PIECE OF MUSIC " or where can i find similar kind of. Thank You.

They still do

they don't now most movements are cg

icecream hero They don't now. Most frames are just done by having those animations filled up by Adobe Animator or something.

ですLoli Hunter Or more complicated animations like Lou, has actual skeletons for the characters which can be moved in a natural way

Actually they were going to draw,on paper and scan on to a computer. Then color all the drawings digitally.

You can recreate the effects of the multiplane camera in toon boom

I'm pleased to see someone knows about the true history of animation. This lie that Disney invented the multilplane camera has become so ingrained in popular myth that people accept it without bothering to fact check. Lotte Reiniger's 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed' (1926) is inspiring, as is all her work. Some day Lotte Reiniger's place in the TRUE history of animation will be recognised.

That's a bit like saying that the Benz Patent-Motorwagen doesn't really matter, because Ford's Model T showed up. The fact is that Disney used Reiniger's designs, worked off of those (the "technological innovation" was that he turned them sideways, effectively), and never gave her credit for them. He also talks here like he came up with the idea, which he clearly didn't.

I *do* say the same thing about Ub Iwerks. I say it about Berthold Bartosch, too. The fact that she never said or implied that Disney stole anything doesn't mean he didn't. The man claimed to have invented it for crying out loud. The limitations of Reiniger's camera had nothing to do with her multi-plane system. It was the camera technology that made Disney's "better". Why was Disney's more famous? Easy. Marketing. The man had the money to do and say whatever he wanted. He didn't "come up with the idea", he took someone else's idea and adapted it (which basically describes everything Disney ever did, including Mickey Mouse, which he stole from Ub Iwerks).

@@argophontes I was about to present those very same arguments, but you beat me to it :) Cheers.

Gertie the dinosaur was the first real person/cartoon interaction. That was 1914. Flowers and Trees was the first three-strip, but it wasn't the first Technicolor. That was Ub Iwerks with "Fiddlesticks". The stereophonic sound thing is actually a perfect example of my "marketing and money" argument. Plenty of films before Fantasia were recorded in stereo (One Hundred Men and a Girl, Wizard of Oz, Love Finds Andy Hardy), but they were released in mono because not enough theaters could support the stereo sound. When Fantasia was released, it was also mostly released in mono, except for 14 theaters that he paid to get upgraded to stereo. He owned and installed all of that equipment for a roadshow tour of the film. Marketing. Disney and Iwerks designed Oswald the Lucky Rabbit together, not Mickey. They lost control of the rights to the character to the Mintz Agency. When coming up with new characters, one of the options was the mouse. It wasn't a shared creation. There's even an from Ub's wife that Disney and Ub were having lunch, and a kid asked Disney to draw Mickey, so Disney handed the paper to Ub and then told the kid that he (Disney) would sign it for him. Ub's response was "Draw your own damned Mickey". Iwerks left to start his own studio, and Disney went out of his way multiple times to sink it. Nobody is saying that the Disney company didn't do wonderful things for animation, but Walt Disney was well known in the industry for being a rip-off artist and a shyster. I'm not blind or a troll. I'm a professional animator that actually knows the history of his craft.

Steven Everett did u not watch the whole video?

cokerockstop2 yeah I watch the video But He didn't say that it was his idea

Steven Everett it was a collective idea from diffrent memnbers of his staff