100 years of stop

I accidentally called it "stop-action" instead of "stop-motion" in front of Danno once and he told me no one would know what I was talking about.

1928

London After Midnight

It's not an anthology, but I just wanted to share this one. That face is so iconic.

Alice's Wonderland

Turn the sound down. Don't let anything distract you when you watch this.

That's Walt Disney. He is 20 years old.

He's almost broke.

He's living in his office and taking baths once a week at Union Station.

In fact there's not enough money to finish this short.

Laugh-O-Grams Studio would declare bankruptcy.

Walt would sell the movie camera used to make Alice's Wonderland and buy a one-way train ticket to California, to live with his uncle Robert and his brother Roy.

Walt took the unfinished reel of Alice's Wonderland with him, in hopes of finding a movie distributor for an Alice series.

This short was never actually shown in theaters.

We had color before we had sound

I just find these fascinating.



What people could do and what people would pay for are not the same thing.



It must have been like 3-D movies. "Nice gimmick, but why bother?"