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The Transition into Features
The Moviola:
The Walt Disney Studios’ first feature-length film was an enormous undertaking. Walt relied on the Moviola—an editor’s viewing machine—to study the animated dailies and shape the story he envisioned. Walt was a master storyteller—he frequently had scenes redrawn until he was completely satisfied.
The Soup Sequence:
With so much riding on the film’s success, the story had to be perfect and scenes that didn’t advance the story were left on the cutting room floor. Walt’s toughest decision was deleting one of his personal favorites, a sequence of the dwarfs eating soup that had taken a year and a half to produce.
A Novel Idea:
The studio faced one of its greatest challenges of personality animation—how to individualize seven similar-looking Dwarfs. Walt decided the best way to start was by naming them descriptively: Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, and Doc, the last, “because that sounded officious, he was sort of a leader, you see,” explained Walt.
Home, Sweet Home:
According to Walt, “A man should never neglect his family for business.” A true family man, he made it a point to rarely bring work home. Away from the studio, Walt enjoyed a typical life with Lilly and their two girls: “I tried to set up my home as something apart.”
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