Thursday 5 December 2019

Rubber Hose Dwarves

Walt Disney and dwarves met up in the early days of sound cartoons in The Merry Dwarfs (1929). These ones didn’t do much more than have funny dances in time to the music but that was good enough for 1929.

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.
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1 comment:

  1. Hans Christian Brando7 December 2019 at 11:55

    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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