Most of us know the following...
First Sound Cartoon: Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney)
First Color Cartoon: Flowers and Trees (Walt Disney)
First Full-Length Animated Feature: Snow White... (Walt Disney)
Then there's the FantaSound (Stereo use in Fantasia) or the Multiplane Camera (first tested with The Old Mill), but here are two lesser-known landmarks.
You know those Disney Sing-A-Long Songs? Owl? The Lark Sisters?
The whole school of birds comes from the two-part series (there were intended to be more, however) of a music series.
The first cartoon, Adventures in Melody, was the first cartoon to be filmed in 3-D (it was shown in the Fantasyland Theater in Disneyland).
The second, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, was the first wide-screen cartoon in CineScope.
Both films were made in 1953. Owl was voiced by Bill Thompson, who also provided the voice of Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore, Jock (Lady and the Tramp), Joe (Tony's servant in Lady and the Tramp), Uncle Waldo (Aristocats), Scrooge McDuck, King Hubert, and MGM's Droopy. He passed away in 1971.
First Sound Cartoon: Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney)
First Color Cartoon: Flowers and Trees (Walt Disney)
First Full-Length Animated Feature: Snow White... (Walt Disney)
Then there's the FantaSound (Stereo use in Fantasia) or the Multiplane Camera (first tested with The Old Mill), but here are two lesser-known landmarks.
You know those Disney Sing-A-Long Songs? Owl? The Lark Sisters?
The whole school of birds comes from the two-part series (there were intended to be more, however) of a music series.
The first cartoon, Adventures in Melody, was the first cartoon to be filmed in 3-D (it was shown in the Fantasyland Theater in Disneyland).
The second, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, was the first wide-screen cartoon in CineScope.
Both films were made in 1953. Owl was voiced by Bill Thompson, who also provided the voice of Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore, Jock (Lady and the Tramp), Joe (Tony's servant in Lady and the Tramp), Uncle Waldo (Aristocats), Scrooge McDuck, King Hubert, and MGM's Droopy. He passed away in 1971.