Answer two of the three sections fully.
1) Comparing Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (1933) to Uncle Tom’s Cabaña (1947) answer the following three questions.
a. What differences you notice in the telling of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin story?
b. Why is this story so often appearing in animation?
c. How do you account for the representation of Black Americans in both films?
2) Looking at both Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Fantasia (1941) Walt Disney saw two opposing directions for his studio. What were these directions and which way did he point? Why? Think both of the box office and the other revenue streams that Disney as a corporation accessed through these films in answering this question. Please be detailed.
3) An animated film is one that is created frame-by-frame, or A film made by hand, frame by frame, providing an illusion of movement which has not been directly recorded in the conventional photographic sense. Which definition for animation do think best fits the work of Norman McClaren and the National Film Board or Canada?
