BackWalt Disney Film Archives
Les Films d'animation 1921-1968 (book in English and French)
Edited by Daniel Kothenschulte
- Type
- Encyclopedias
- Subject
- Studio > Walt Disney Studios
- Walt Disney, cartoon, storyboard, drawing, animation, history of cinema
- Publishing Date
- 2016
> See the newer edition (2022) - Publisher
- Taschen
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English and French
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 624 pages • 150 €
16 ¼ x 11 ¾ inches (41 x 30 cm) - ISBN
- 978-3-8365-5290-5
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Si le livre The Walt Disney Film Archives de Taschen impressionne, ce n’est pas uniquement à cause ses imposantes dimensions (41 x 30 cm, plus de 6 kg sur la balance), c’est aussi et surtout par la somme de documents inédits qu’il rassemble. Il nous retrace, film après films, toute l’histoire du studio d’animation, depuis les timides débuts à l’époque du muet jusqu’au Livre de Jungle en 1967, couvrant ainsi toute la période du vivant de son créateur. Et même les films les plus rares y figurent.
La création de chaque film nous est racontée sur 20 à 30 pages, avec une abondante illustration issue des archives du studio et de plusieurs collections privées : story-boards et croquis narratifs, planches de celluloïds, études et dessins préparatoires, des superbes pastels et bien entendu des photos des dessinateurs en plein travail. L’immersion est encore plus totale avec les extraits des conférences de rédaction qui nous permettent d’assister aux débats internes à l’équipe.
La qualité d’impression est irréprochable. Il y a de nombreuses reproductions pleine-page ce qui, à ces grandes dimensions, est source d’émerveillement sans cesse renouvelé. Le livre est en anglais mais il est livré avec un livret séparé de traductions en français, ce qui sera indéniablement moins pratique pour beaucoup de lecteurs mais la richesse de la documentation rassemblée compense largement cet inconvénient. Nul doute que nous avons là le livre ultime sur les Studios Walt Disney.
Book Presentation:
ISBN 978-3-8365-5291-2 = Édition: Anglais
ISBN 978-3-8365-5290-5 = Edition: Anglais + livret de traductions en français
ISBN 978-3-8365-5289-9 = Edition: Anglais + livret de traductions en allemand
ISBN 978-3-8365-6365-9 = Édition: Anglais + livret de traductions en espagnol
One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney created a unique and unrivalled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics of cinema, his astonishing collection of animated cartoons revolutionized storytelling on screen and enchant to this day across geographies and generations.
In TASCHEN's first volume of one of the most expansive illustrated publications on Disney animation, some 1,500 images and essays by eminent Disney experts take us to the beating heart of the studio s Golden Age of Animation . This landmark book traces Disney's complete animation journey from the silent film era, through his first full-length feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the pioneering artistic experiment Fantasia (1940), right up to his last masterpieces Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) and The Jungle Book (1967).
With extensive research conducted through the historical collections of The Walt Disney Company, as well as private collections, editor Daniel Kothenschulte curates some of the most precious concept paintings and storyboards to reveal just how these animation masterpieces came to life. Masterful cel setups provide highly detailed illustrations of famous film scenes while rare pictures taken by Disney photographers and excerpts from story conferences between Walt and his staff bring a privileged insider s view to the studio s creative process.
Each of the major animated features that were made during Walt's lifetime including Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians are given their own focus chapter, without forgetting less familiar gems such as the experimental short films of the Silly Symphonies series and underappreciated episodic musical films such as Make Mine Music and Melody Time, all of which receive the same meticulous research and attention. Many unfinished projects, among them the proposed sequels to the legendary musical Fantasia or a homage to Davy Crockett by painter Thomas Hart Benton, are also highlighted with rarely seen artworks, many of them previously unpublished. Throughout, the contributions from such leading Disney specialists as Leonard Maltin, Dave Smith, Charles Solomon, J. B. Kaufman, Russell Merritt, and Brian Sibley detail the evolution of each respective film.
Realizing the Disney style was a collective project and as much as the master himself, The Walt Disney Film Archives acknowledges the outstanding animators and designers who influenced the style of the studio, among them Albert Hurter, Gustaf Tenggren, Kay Nielsen, Carl Barks, Mary Blair, Sylvia Holland, Tyrus Wong, Ken Anderson, Eyvind Earle, and Walt Peregoy.
See the publisher website: Taschen
Newer edition
Walt Disney Film Archives (2022)
Les Films d'animation 1921-1968
Dir. Daniel Kothenschulte
Publisher: Taschen
(in English and French)
Subject: Studio > Walt Disney Studios
Newer edition
Les Archives des films Walt Disney (2020)
Les films d'animation 1921-1968
Dir. Daniel Kothenschulte
Publisher: Taschen
(old edition)
Subject: Studio > Walt Disney Studios
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