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How was this filmed?

posted 9 years ago by CastleH908
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I was just watching the making-of documentary (the one that was included on the VHS in the mid-90s) on youtube and while I always knew animated movies were drawn by hand back in the day, I never stopped to consider how they were then transferred to film. In the documentary, they mentioned several times how it was "filmed in 70mm technorama," and so now I'm imagining a camera guy aiming a camera at a stack of hand-drawn pictures while another guy sits off to the side & flips through them like one of those flip books. But I know that's not true. Does anyone know how it WAS filmed?

[–] Cristianos 9 years ago

It's an educated guess, but Sleeping Beauty was most likely filmed on a multiplane camera. The background artwork and ink-and-painted character animation cel drawings were stacked on an individual panel and carefully photographed frame-by-frame. After that was laboriously done, the film was transferred over to be processed onto 70mm Technirama film stock.

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[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

Does anyone know how it WAS filmed?

How all animated movies were filmed: one frame at a time.

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