Disney Live Action Reference Footage
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- We all love Disney movies, but one aspect of Disney films that often gets over looked is Disney live-action reference footage. You see animators would often film live actors then draw the characters based off their movements. Well I want to spread that hard work far and wide. The only problem most of these films are over 60 years old, and the animators would only need to save a few key frames and poses, then animate the in-between frames themselves, and get rid of rest. Also it was time when documenting/archiving stuff like this wasn't really a priority. Thus sadly lot's of this footage has been lost to time, and if any more does survive, it hasn't been released to the public. Still I did my best to find as much as possible, and in some instances I got the next best things with actors recreating scenes on shows like the Fred Waring show and Mickey Mouse Club.
Cast: (In order of appearance)
Marge Champion as Snow White, The Blue Fairy, and Hyacinth Hippo
Don Brodie as The Old Hag
Louis Hightower as Prince Florian, and Ben Ali Gator
Eddie Collins as The Dwarfs
Larry Morey as The Dwarfs
Oliver Wallace as The Dwarfs
Val Stanton as Jiminy Cricket
Christian Rub as Geppeto
Dickie Jones as Pinocchio
Don Barclay as Gideon, The Steward, The Walrus, Mr. Smee, King Hubert, and Nanny
Walter Catlett as Honest John
T. Hee as Stromboli
Helene Stanley as Madame Upanova, Ben Ali Gator, Cinderella, Anastasia, Aurora, and Anita
Hattie Noel as Hyacinth Hippo
Bela Lugosi as Chernabog
Wilfred Jackson as Chernabog
Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine and Maleficent
Rhoda Williams as Drizzella
Claire Du Brey as The Fairy Godmother
Jeffery Stone as Prince Charming
Kathryn Beaumont as Alice and Wendy Darling
Heather Angel as Alice's sister and Mary Darling
Richard Haydn as The Caterpillar
Sterling Holloway as The Cheshire Cat
Ed Wynn as The Mad Hatter
"Professor" Jerry Colonna as The March Hare
Hans Conried as George Darling, Captain Hook, and King Stefan
Paul Collins as Michael Darling
Margaret Kerry as Tinkerbell and The Red Haired Mermaid
Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan
Roland Dupree as Peter Pan (stunt double)
Tommy Luske as Michael Darling
Ed Kemmer as Prince Phillip
Madge Blake as Flora
Spring Byington as Merryweather
Cubby O'Brian as Prince Phillip (young)
Jane Fowler as Queen Leah
Frances Bavier as Fauna
Mary Wickes as Cruella De Vil
Sherri Stoner as Ariel and Vanessa
Josh Finkle as Prince Eric
Peter Fitzgerald, Aurorah Allain, Mary Ann Oedy, Jamie Torcellini, Stefanie Roos, Kim Woolfe, Lance McDonald, Leslie Woodies
As Aladdin reference team (who played who is unknown)
Robert Gant as Hercules
Michelle Beauchamp as Megara
Ron Clements as Phil
John Musker as The Hydra
Ungela Brockman as Calliope
Randi Pareira as Thalia
Kyausha Simson as Clio
Nik Ranieri as Hades
Malerie Walters as Kristoff and Sven
P.S. I wanted to make a credits sequence for this, but I just couldn't get anything I was satisfied with, so I decided to do this. Also you might notice some characters who weren't credited here, (The Evil Queen and Huntsman for example) and that is because those actors have been sadly unable to identify. However while their names may be forgotten, their performances will be remembered.
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Here's a guide to help you through it:
00:00 - Intro
00:02 - Mickey's Amateurs
00:20 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
02:08 - Pinocchio
03:03 - Fantasia
04:03 - Cinderella
06:51 - Alice in Wonderland
14:23 - Peter Pan
16:28 - Sleeping Beauty
18:27 - 101 Dalmatians
18:44 - The Little Mermaid
22:36 - Aladdin
24:11 - Hercules
30:59 - Frozen II
Cast: (In order of appearance)
Marge Champion as Snow White, The Blue Fairy, and Hyacinth Hippo
Don Brodie as The Old Hag
Louis Hightower as Prince Florian, and Ben Ali Gator.
Eddie Collins as The Dwarfs
Larry Morey as The Dwarfs
Billy House as Happy
Oliver Wallace as The Dwarfs
Val Stanton as Jiminy Cricket
Christian Rub as Geppeto
Dickie Jones as Pinocchio
Don Barclay as Gideon, The Steward, The Walrus, Mr. Smee, King Hubert, and Nanny
Walter Catlett as Honest John
T. Hee as Stromboli
Helene Stanley as Madame Upanova, Ben Ali Gator, Cinderella, Anastasia, Aurora, and Anita
Hattie Noel as Hyacinth Hippo
Bela Lugosi as Chernabog
Wilfred Jackson as Chernabog
Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine and Maleficent
Rhoda Williams as Drizzella
Claire Du Brey as The Fairy Godmother
Jeffery Stone as Prince Charming
Kathryn Beaumont as Alice and Wendy Darling
Heather Angel as Alice's sister and Mary Darling
Richard Haydn as The Caterpillar
Sterling Holloway as The Cheshire Cat
Ed Wynn as The Mad Hatter
"Professor" Jerry Colonna as The March Hare
Hans Conried as George Darling, Captain Hook, and King Stefan
Paul Collins as John Darling
Margaret Kerry as Tinkerbell and The Red Haired Mermaid
Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan
Roland Dupree as Peter Pan (stunt double)
Tommy Luske as Michael Darling
Connie Hilton as The Mermaids
June Foray as The Mermaids
Ed Kemmer as Prince Phillip
Madge Blake as Flora
Spring Byington as Merryweather
Cubby O'Brian as Prince Phillip (young)
Jane Fowler as Queen Leah
Frances Bavier as Fauna
Mary Wickes as Cruella De Vil
Lisa Davis as Anita
Frank Thomas as Roger Radcliff
Sherri Stoner as Ariel and Vanessa
Josh Finkle as Prince Eric
Peter Fitzgerald, Aurorah Allain, Mary Ann Oedy, Jamie Torcellini, Stefanie Roos, Kim Woolfe, Lance McDonald, Leslie Woodies
As Aladdin reference team (who played who is unknown)
Robert Gant as Hercules
Michelle Beauchamp as Megara
Ron Clements as Phil
John Musker as The Hydra
Ungela Brockman as Calliope
Randi Pareira as Thalia
Kyausha Simson as Clio
Nik Ranieri as Hades
Malerie Walters as Kristoff and Sven
P.S. I wanted to make a credits sequence for this, but I just couldn't get anything I was satisfied with, so I decided to do this. Also you might notice some characters who weren't credited here, (The Evil Queen and Huntsman for example) and that is because those actors have been sadly unable to identify. However while their names may be forgotten, their performances will be remembered.
How do u know Oliver Wallace was the model for one of the Dwarfs?
@@matthewhedrichjr.5445 In the DVD the silly song clip came from, the narrator said it was him dancing.
@@Thomas_H._Smith really?!
@@matthewhedrichjr.5445 1:17 1:58 These are the two clips he's in.
@@Thomas_H._Smith and what about King Stefan?
That girl who did Alice have such beautiful expression s 🙌 these r the best live action there ever will b
That is young Kathryn Beaumont, who also was the reference for Wendy.
@@Thomas_H._Smith thnku...i found out too...these footage and everyone is so guddd...kathryn and champion is gud too 😭🙌😍
The work they put into the animated movies looks outstanding and fun
Can we just acknowledge how incredible these actors are
The One Jump Ahead segment is the most 90s thing I've ever seen. 😂😂
...I'd beg to differ.
Back to when Disney put heart and effort in making fantasy movies, and not only money-making-2-hours commercials
Can we just appreciate how Kathryn Beaumont looks so much prettier in color?
THESE are the live-action remakes that everyone loves and what we SHOULD have gotten back then. 😊
Here's a guide to help you through it:
0:02 Mickey's Amateurs
0:20 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2:08 Pinocchio
3:03 Fantasia
4:03 Cinderella
6:51 Alice in Wonderland
14:23 Peter Pan
16:28 Sleeping Beauty
18:27 101 Dalmatians
18:44 The Little Mermaid
22:36 Aladdin
24:11 Hercules
30:59 Frozen II
@@Shadow-gm9ct Well yeah, but then I'd lose the pinned comment of the cast, which I feel is more important.
Old school Disney 😍😍
These are the only animated to live action disney movies I'll watch.
Peter Pan is my all time favorite Disney movie! It would be so cool to not only see the entire thing of live action references for the film, but also a behind-the-scenes thing with the voice actors in the recording studio and everything.
@@babywolfg Totally.
I can tell that it is your absolute favorite Disney film after all. And yes, it’s my second favorite after all.
😊
Also, I think the late former Stooge actor Eddie Laughton could have modeled the Carpenter (and do the voice if J Pat O Malley auditions for the character) and later Starkey (with O Malley would have done the voice if he rejects doing the Carpenter) with the same costume as Hans Conried (but with a purple suit and white colonial wig for character).
@@matthewhedrichjr.5445 Peter Pan is my favorite Disney film of all time! It's excellent with a wonderful story, awesome characters with terrific voice acting, brilliant animation, and a fantastic score.
I'm obsessed with all things Peter Pan and Bobby Driscoll, always wanted to marry Peter Pan too lol still hasn't changed 😅
I adore this, the original and superior form of Motion capture technology: Talented Artists.
This makes the animation so much fun! They record reference footage, rotoscope even. This makes me prefer animation over live-action. You can get away with way more than you could with live-action. These videos would make a much better live-action film than what Disney poops out currently. This shows that animation or realistic human animation isn't as simple as people think, it never is.
my dear uncle, bill melendez (snoopy fame) worked on fantasia animation. this is the making of real art, not computer animations. God Bless them.
Your uncle's work left a legacy... What was his position in making of Fantasia?.. Also was he involved in making of other Disney movies?
@@gregorbaby4269 yes he worked on Fantasia, all the old classic disneys: bambi, snow white, etc.
I like how directors John Musker and Ron Clements were part of the live action reference. That is really rare
I love way they did the live action to show how they did it, it look like fun back then doing it!
Man all these documentary videos are always so interesting to sit through.
It shows how such a massive quality in production was obtained and how it managed to be and look so good for the time thanks to some archaic, but noteworthy techniques. It's fascinating.
Definitely a reflection of those long gone geniuses behind such classics in animation.
True story - Christian Rub (voice of Gepetto) was a Nazi sympathizer who drove the crew crazy with pro-Hitler rants while they were working, so while they were filming reference footage of him on his boat, the crew decided to "accidentally" speed up the machine that made the boat go up and down.
Huh. Here's another Disney Nazi fact, Snow White was actually one Hitler's favorite movies.
21:40 she is so expressive ❤❤❤❤
Wow, I didn't know they modeled the movie to reference live performances
6:52 I love this movie ❣️ really wish I had cds of it when I was younger but no I did have a party of it when I turned a year old tho
Also Kathys relationship with the actor of the Cheshire cat is SO heartwarming i’ve seen pics and I can’t stop thinking about them ❣️♥️🖤♠️♥️🐇🎩👧👑😺🌻🌷💐🌹🌼
You mean Sterling Holloway?
This is just fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing this
0:53 That picture is scarier than Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West ever was. 2:57 Awww! He's so cute!
I think that it was somewhat good that Hattie Noel was chosen as Hyacinth Hippo. It's fun to hear the original version of "Cinderelly."
I wish they would continue doing things like that. It makes it fun, creative, and possibly more lifelike.
7:48 loool that pose with the man
Thank you, I have been looking for this video for a really long time.
Sherri Stoner also did Belle, I think. Because she was also an inspiration for Belle
I think she did, but for the life of me I could not find any clips or photos.
Slappy Squirrel!
Love learning that Kathryn was not only the VA, but apparently the model for Alice as well.
I’m in love with this video ❤
Thank you for this!!
These movies were already magic for me, but this made them even more magical! Wow! This just blows my mind.
Rare film clips-Thanks for sharing.
Sherri Stoner is so adorable
This video is so cool I love it
20:50 that dudeeeee🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm glad someone else pointed that out
Amazing!
Character actor Mary Wickes doing the visuals for Cruella De Vil, now that _had_ to help inspire artist Marc Davis in creating the character's swooping and grand gestures and also her cartoony comedy qualities and nasty temper. This video was lots of fun.
2:52 I wonder where that puppet used as a prop is today
20:21 - 21:07
21:19 - 21:40
The fact that Sherri's only miming out the movements for Ariel, and they had to animated each expression.... just incredible.
This is why the 2023 remake is more of a disappointment. I don't want to say Halle Bailey's a bad singer, because she's pretty amazing in that part, but she's a MEDIOCRE ACTRESS. Because it seems like the way either she or the director/studio chose to portray her feels very bland. I never got the sense of her curiosity about the human world or how she's trying to handle being human for the first time. Sherri Stoner's portrayal feels like a child who just found out about something bizarre (even when it's nothing really huge), leading to her moments of learning the human world to be pretty funny and entertaining.
i think when they ment the mad hatter and the march hare are mad , i think it means they are crazy
Yes that is what it means.
@@Thomas_H._Smith dude the recording of mad Hatter's voice actor in 10:55 was never re-rerecorded and they kept the voice acting audio from the live-action reference in the final film
The reference for Ariel was so good I love her
Alas the new Disney will never match this.
So, when did they stopped to do this live action references?? In wich movie??
Actually they still do it today czcams.com/video/UZYn0SNwzEM/video.html
1:22 who else was surprised that his pants didnt fall down
Cinderellas was so amazing
They got the Evil Queen's huntsman DOWN! He looked just like his model.
The muses in Hercules 😍😍😍😍😍
5:15 Charlie Brown
Oops. I didn’t know he accidentally kicked him in the glasses
6:10 I don't think it is (don't know where she got it as she has a bedroom instead of sleeping very close to the fireplace)
4:46 to 6:14 is So Cute.
Movie Live Action Disney movie
But how is the process? Someone knows that? Thanks a lot for this compilation
Well first the storyboard artists stage the scenes, then they show those to the live actors, the live actors act out the scenes, and the animators take it from there and draw them. Granted there's several smaller beats in between, but that's just about the gist of it.
Thanks for the answer!!
6:54 & 14:21
🥰🥰🥰
sad they didn’t have anything for the jungle book of the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh…
Well those films were mostly animals so they wouldn't really need it. And at this point they had been doing it for like 30 years they were kinda masters at this point.
@@Thomas_H._Smith oh thats tru but how did they get the inspiration
@@imahotmess872 Well typically with animals they would either:
A. Bring real elephants or deer or whatever into the studio and have drawing classes
B. Go into the field and film real animals and base the drawings off that. (Which Fun Fact it was actually all this film in the field that inspired Disney's nature documentary series, True Life Adventures.)
Or C. Go to nearby Zoos and practice drawing the animals there.
@@imahotmess872 If you want more information, I'd recommend checking out this blog post by Disney Animator, and Disney Legend, Andreas Deja. andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2011_07_24_archive.html?m=1
0:52 that's disturbing
OMG the little mermaid live 2023 😢😢😢 and live 1989
i feel bad for the lady 3:42
Why?
@@Thomas_H._Smith i used to but now i dont honestly know
The video forgot about Robert Zemeckis' Christmas Carol.Here's a video featuring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth doing almost the same thing shown here. czcams.com/video/70E951wA5Tg/video.html
18:33 eww
fun fact: the live actor in the Evil Queen witch costume at 0:52... is Walt Disney
It's not. It's actor Don Brodie.