Disney weaned himself away from rubber hose-style animation in the ‘30s, but it’s evident in this cartoon. Here are some frames of a couple of dwarves dancing.
There are a few drawings that remind me of poses in Flip the Frog cartoons, so Ub Iwerks had to have been one of the animators.
Compare these to Snow White's dwarfs and be stunned at the night-and-day difference in less than a decade. There have been no comparable innovations after a quarter century of CGI animation; the characters still look like plastic or plush dolls.
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