The room of animators Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, and Norm Ferguson.Loaned out by 20th Century Fox to direct this film, Alfred Werker later became the first outside film director to use the storyboard, which the Disney staff had developed from previous illustrated scripts during the early 1930s. The story is shown to the audience in the form of an animatic, or a story reel, using limited animation. The storyboard department, where a group of storymen (one of whom is portrayed by Alan Ladd) test their idea for a new short on Benchley: Baby Weems.The employee on duty makes Benchley a maquette of himself, which many years later was purchased and owned by Warner Bros. Also on display is a black zebra centaurette from Fantasia, which Benchley admires.
Smee, John and Michael Darling from Peter Pan both films were in development at this time, but would be delayed by World War II and not completed until the 1950s. Some of the maquettes on display included Aunt Sarah, Si, and Am from Lady and the Tramp and Peter, Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, Mr. The maquette-making department, which makes maquettes (small statues) to help the animators envision a character from all sides.Doris presents a completed cel of the titular character from Bambi. The ink-and-paint department, including a Technicolor-showcasing montage of the paint department.
His answer: "Yes, but you look so much different in Technicolor!" Donald Duck appears on the camera stand to help explain the mechanics of animation and animation photography. Upon Benchley's entering the camera room, the film turns from grayscale and black-and-white to Technicolor (a la The Wizard of Oz), prompting the droll Benchley to (breaking the fourth wall) examine his now red-and- blue tie and his yellow copy of the Reluctant Dragon storybook and comment, "Ahh.Technicolor!" When Doris arrives to show him around the camera room, she asks Benchley if he remembers her.
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Most of the film is live-action, with four short animated segments inserted into the running time: a black-and-white segment featuring Casey Junior from Dumbo and three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems (presented as a storyboard), Goofy's How to Ride a Horse, and the extended-length short The Reluctant Dragon, based upon Kenneth Grahame's book of the same name. The first twenty minutes of the film are in black-and-white, and the remainder is in Technicolor. Essentially a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios facility in Burbank, California, the film stars radio comedian Robert Benchley and many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, and Walt Disney, all as themselves. The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 27, 1941.