Classic voice acting

[carolineorchange21]

Posted: 7/24/13 at 11:59am

Eleanor Audley was a goddess. Maleficent was always my favorite Disney villain. Cursing a baby over an invitation slight? That's cold.


Audley in a live action sequence for the Disney animators.


I love the way she mocks Prince Phillp in this clip. It's some of the greatest voice acting ever!


Maleficent's monolgue

Updated On: 7/24/13 at 11:59 AM

[carolineorchange21]

Posted: 7/24/13 at 12:37pm

Miss Verna Felton also deserves a shout out. What a talent - both onscreen and off. Character actresses for the win!

Updated On: 7/27/13 at 12:37 PM

[nygrl232]

Posted: 7/24/13 at 11:25pm

Ah. Back when Disney was rotoscoped. They abandoned that style at some point, but I like that visual style best. It holds up better, imho, than the stuff they've done in the last 20 years. It went with the voices, gave everything a theatrical feel.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/26/13 at 1:54pm

Mel Blanc. Now and forever.

[Gorlois]

Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:47pm

People usually mean three things when they talk about "rotoscoping."

A) the actual process of tracing live action footage to hand drawn animation. This was used sparingly in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and rarely (if ever) used again. Disney's competitor, Max Fleischer invented rotoscoping and used it often-- which is part of the reason Walt didn't want to use it. Watch some of Fleischer's rotoscoped cartoons and you'll see a marked difference between them and Disney's work.

B) recycled animation. This is very different from A and C where you repurpose old animation from older films to use in new ones. Robin Hood is filled with this and Belle and the Beast's final dance is taken from Sleeping Beauty (in fact, from the very GIF above).

C) live-action reference. This is where the picture of Audley comes from. Animators would study the actor's movements and use it as... Reference for their animation. Disney employed it in their early films, but it was also used for movies like "The Little Mermaid." It was even used in the 2007 direct-to-video sequel "Cinderella: A Twist in Time."