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Walt Disney
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Walter Elias Walt Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons, as a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors, several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing and he took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy, with Ub Iwerks, Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success, he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years. As the studio grew, Disney became more adventurous, introducing synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, feature-length cartoons, the results, seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful Cinderella and Mary Poppins, in the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. In 1965, he began development of theme park, Disney World, the heart of which was to be a new type of city. Disney was a smoker throughout his life, and died of lung cancer in December 1966 before either the park or the EPCOT project were completed. Disney was a shy, self-deprecating and insecure man in private and he had high standards and high expectations of those with whom he worked. Although there have been accusations that he was racist or anti-semitic and his reputation changed in the years after his death, from a purveyor of homely patriotic values to a representative of American imperialism. Nevertheless, Disney is considered an icon, particularly in the United States. Walt Disney was born on December 5,1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue and he was the fourth son of Elias Disney—born in the Province of Canada, to Irish parents—and Flora, an American of German and English descent. Aside from Disney, Elias and Calls sons were Herbert, Raymond and Roy, in 1906, when Disney was four, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where his uncle Robert had just purchased land. In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a neighborhood doctor. Elias was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper, Disney also began to develop an ability to work with watercolors and crayons. He lived near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line and he and his younger sister Ruth started school at the same time at the Park School in Marceline in late 1909. In 1911, the Disneys moved to Kansas City, Missouri, before long, he was spending more time at the Pfeiffers house than at home
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 childrens novel by Dodie Smith about the kidnapping of a family of 101 Dalmatian dogs. A sequel, The Starlight Barking, continues from the end of the first novel, at a dinner party attended by the Dearly couple, Cruella de Vil expresses her dislike for animals, subsequently, the couples new Dalmatian puppies disappear. The Dearly dogs are now among 97 puppies who were kidnapped or legally purchased from various owners, through the co-operation of animals and the Twilight barking, the dogs are found in Suffolk, England, and a rescue ensues. Pongo and Missis are a pair of Dalmatians who live with the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Dearly and their two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. Mr. Dearly is a wizard who has been granted lifelong tax exemption. The dogs consider the humans their pets, but allow the humans to think that they are the owners, Missis gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies. Concerned that Missis will not be able to feed them all, Mrs. Dearly looks for a canine wet nurse, and finds an abandoned liver-spotted Dalmatian in the middle of the road in the pouring rain. She has the dog treated by a vet and names her Perdita, Perdita later tells Pongo about her lost love Prince and the resulting litter of puppies which were sold by her owner, and that she had run away looking for those puppies. Mr. and Mrs. Dearly attend a party hosted by Cruella de Vil. The Dearlys are disconcerted by her belief that all animals are worthless, shortly after the dinner party, the puppies disappear. Pongo and Missis try to tell the Dearlys where the puppies are but fail, Pongo tried to say the human word Suffolk, the dogs decide to run away and find the puppies, leaving Perdita to look after the Dearlys. After a journey across the countryside, they meet the Colonel and they learn that there are 97 puppies in Hell Hall, including Pongo and Missis own 15. Cruella de Vil appears and tells the crooks in charge of Hell Hall to slaughter, Pongo and Missis devise a plan to rescue all of the puppies and escape the day before Christmas Eve. Tommy and the Colonel have learned enough of each others languages for communication between them to be possible. When the cart loses a wheel, they rest on the hassocks of a country church, Cruella almost finds them, but the dogs escape in a removal van. Having rolled in soot to disguise themselves, they hide in the darkness of the van with the help of a Staffordshire terrier whose owners are the drivers of the van. Once the dogs roll around to remove the soot from their coats, the litter that pulled Cadpigs cart proved to be Perditas litter by Prince. Mr. Dearly finds where the puppies had been by reading wording on the cart, there are 97 puppies, and three adult Dalmatians, totaling 100
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Dodie Smith
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Dorothy Gladys Dodie Smith was an English childrens novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking, the Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 movie version, I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as one of the nations 100 best-loved novels by the British public as part of the BBCs The Big Read. Smith was born on 3 May 1896 in Whitefield, near Bury in Lancashire and her parents were Ernest and Ella Smith. Ernest was a manager, he died in 1898, when Dodie was two years old. Dodie and her mother relocated to Old Trafford to live with her grandparents, William, dodies childhood home, known as Kingston House, was at 609 Stretford Road. It faced the Manchester Ship Canal, and she lived with her mother, maternal grandparents, in her autobiography Look Back with Love, she credits her grandfather William as one of three reasons she became a playwright. He was an avid theatregoer, and they had long talks about Shakespeare, the second reason, her uncle Harold Furber, an amateur actor, read plays with her and introduced her to contemporary drama. Thirdly, her mother had wanted to be an actress, an ambition frustrated except for walk-on parts, Smith wrote her first play at the age of ten, and she began acting in minor roles during her teens at the Manchester Athenaeum Dramatic Society. Presently there is a plaque commemorating the building where Dorothy grew up. The formative years of Dorothys childhood were spent at this house, in 1910 Ella remarried and moved to London with her new husband and the 14-year-old Dodie, who attended school in both Manchester and at St Pauls Girls School. In 1914 Dodie entered the Academy of Dramatic Art and her first role came in Arthur Wing Pineros play Playgoers. Other roles after RADA included a Chinese girl in Mr. Wu, a maid in Ye Gods, and a young mother in Niobe, which was directed by Basil Dean. During her mothers illness while dying of breast cancer, Dodie, in 1923, she accepted a job in Heal and Sons furniture store in London and became the toy buyer. She wrote her first play, Autumn Crocus, in 1931 using the pseudonym C. L and its success, and the discovery of her identity by journalists, inspired the newspaper headline, Shopgirl Writes Play. The show starred Fay Compton and Francis Lederer, Smiths fourth play Call it a Day was acted by the Theatre Guild on 28 January 1936 and ran for 194 performances. It ran in London for 509 performances, the longest run of any of Smiths plays to date and it was compared favourably to George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferbers play Dinner at Eight and Edward Knoblocks Grand Hotel by Joseph Wood Krutch. He also said of the production that it stays pretty consistently on the level of comedy, after the success of Call it a Day, Smith was able to purchase The Barretts, a cottage near the village of Finchingfield, Essex
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Rod Taylor
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Rodney Sturt Rod Taylor was an Australian actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films and his middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian Outback in the 19th century. Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical, for a time he worked as a commercial artist, but decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III. Taylor acquired extensive radio and stage experience in Australia, where his work included a period on Blue Hills. Earlier in his career he had to himself by working at Sydneys Mark Foys department store, designing and painting window. In 1951, he took part in a re-enactment of Charles Sturts voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturts offsider, a short documentary, Inland with Sturt, was based on it. Taylor also appeared in a number of productions for Australias Mercury Theatre. Taylor made his film debut in the Australian Lee Robinson film King of the Coral Sea. He later played Israel Hands in a Hollywood-financed film shot in Sydney, Long John Silver, an unofficial sequel to Treasure Island. Following these two films, Taylor was awarded the 1954 Rola Show Australian Radio Actor of the Year Award, which included a ticket to London via Los Angeles, Taylor soon landed roles in television shows such as Studio 57 and the films Hell on Frisco Bay and Giant. In 1955, he guest-starred in the episode of the first hour-long Western television series, Cheyenne. Taylor and Edward Andrews played gold seekers Clancy and Duncan, respectively, the episode was a remake of the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Taylor was considered for one of the leads in Warner Bros, at MGM, he played a series of support roles in The Catered Affair, Raintree County, and Ask Any Girl. He had a significant role in Separate Tables, which won Oscars for two of its stars, David Niven and Wendy Hiller and he also made a strong impression guest-starring in an episode of The Twilight Zone titled And When the Sky Was Opened. Taylor played a character not unlike that of his Twilight Zone episode of a year earlier, in the 1960–1961 television season, Taylor starred as foreign correspondent Glenn Evans in the ABC dramatic series Hong Kong. His principal co-star was Lloyd Bochner, Jack Kruschen played the bartender, the program faced stiff competition on Wednesday evenings from NBCs Wagon Train, hence lasted for only one season. He voiced Pongo in Disneys animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians, in 1962, he starred in an episode of NBCs The DuPont Show of the Week, an adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel Shannons Way. Taylor then starred with Jane Fonda in the romantic comedy Sunday in New York, during the mid-1960s, Taylor worked mostly for MGM
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Betty Lou Gerson
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Betty Lou Gerson was an American actress, predominantly active in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress. She is best known as the voice of Cruella de Vil from the Disney animated film, One Hundred, Gerson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where her father was an executive with a steel company. She was educated in schools in Birmingham and Miami, Florida. At age sixteen, Gerson moved with her family to Chicago and she later moved again to New York City, New York. She co-starred with Jim Ameche in the 1938 summer drama Win Your Lady and was the resident romantic lead on such romantic anthologies as Curtain Time and she was heard in several episodes of Lux Radio Theater, notably as Glinda in a 1950 dramatization of The Wizard of Oz. She also played a variety of roles on Johnny Modero. Around this time, she was cast as the narrator in Walt Disneys version of Cinderella,11 years later, she provided the voice of the villainous, selfish socialite Cruella De Vil in the Walt Disney animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her few on-camera film roles include appearances in The Fly, The Miracle on the Hills, in television, she made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Marjory Davis in the episode, The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll. She also guest starred on The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hazel, in 1936, Gerson married Joseph T. Ainley at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. At that time, he was director of the Leo Burnett Company. Gerson retired in 1966, though still using her voice, working at the answering service of her second husband. She was honored as a Disney Legend in 1996 and she returned to films one last time in 1997, providing the voice of Frances the fish in Cats Dont Dance. On January 12,1999, she died of a stroke at the age of 84
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Founded on October 16,1923, it is a division of The Walt Disney Studios. The studio has produced 56 feature films, from Snow White and it was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. The studio was dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934. In 1983, Walt Disney Productions named its film studio Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Walt Disney Feature Animation took on its current name, the studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, at the present, Andrew Millstein is the general manager of the studio for day-to-day business affairs, under the direction of Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter who also oversee Pixar. Kansas City, Missouri, natives Walt Disney and Roy O, in February 1924, the studio moved next door to office space of its own at 4649 Kingswell Avenue. Disney refused, and as Universal owned the rights to Oswald rather than Disney, most of Disneys staff was hired away by Mintz to move over, once Disneys Oswald contract was done in mid-1928. The first two Mickey Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho, were previewed in limited engagements during the summer of 1928, the Mickey Mouse series of sound cartoons, distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions, quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States. A second Disney series of cartoons, the Silly Symphonies. Powers in return signed away Ub Iwerks, who began producing cartoons at his own studio, columbia distributed Disneys shorts for two years before the Disney studio entered a new distribution deal with United Artists in 1932. The result was the Silly Symphony Flowers and Trees, the first film released in full Technicolor. Flowers and Trees was a success, and all Silly Symphonies were subsequently produced in Technicolor. In 1934, Walt Disney gathered several key members and announced his plans to make his first feature animated film. In the course of teaching the classes, Graham and the created or formalized many of the techniques and processes that became the key tenets. During the production of Snow White, work had continued on the Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse switched to Technicolor in 1935, by which time the series had added several major supporting characters, among them Mickeys dog Pluto and their friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Donald, Goofy, and Pluto would all be appearing in series of their own by 1940, the Silly Symphonies, which garnered seven Academy Awards, ended in 1939. The success of Snow White allowed Disney to build a new, larger studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering on April 2,1940, with Walt Disney as president and chairman and Roy Disney as CEO
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company. The division took on its current name in late 2007, which before that had been Buena Vista Pictures Distribution since 1987, before 1953, Walt Disneys productions were distributed by Columbia Pictures, United Artists and RKO Radio Pictures. The name Buena Vista came from the street in Burbank, California, Buena Vistas first release was the Academy Award–winning live-action feature The Living Desert on November 10,1953 along with Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Buena Vistas first animated release. Notable subsequent releases include the film, Yang Kwei Fei, released in US theaters in September 1956, The Missouri Traveler in March 1958. In April 1960, the company dropped Film from its name, in 1961, Disney incorporated Buena Vista International, distributing its first PG rated film, Take Down, in January 1979. The low-budget movie was not produced by the Disney studios and was acquired from an independent studio, in July 1987, Buena Vista changed its name to Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Late in the 1980s, Disney purchased a stake in one of Pacific Theatres chain leading to Disneys Buena Vista Theaters and Pacific to renovate the El Capitan Theatre. The Crest was finished first while El Capitan opened with the premiere of The Rocketeer film on June 19,1991, the corporation purchased a 12. 8% share in Cinergi with its initial public offering in 1994. Soon, BVPD signed a 25 picture distribution deal with Cinergi, the Gaumont Film Company and Walt Disney formed Gaumont Buena Vista International, their joint venture French distribution company, in 1993. In August 1996, Disney and Tokuma Shoten Publishing agreed that Disney would distribute internationally Studio Ghibli animated films, in September 1996, following Disneys acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. was merged into ABC, Inc. the parent company of that group. In July 1998, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution purchased the Hollywood Masonic Temple building to continue using it as a promotional venue, by 1997, BVPDs share in Cinergi dropped to 5%.4 million and other loans. In 2002, Disney signed a four animated film deal with Vanguard Animation, however, since 2004, BVI and Gaumont dissolved their French distribution joint venture, Gaumont Buena Vista International. Buena Vista International agreed to a deal with MegaStar Joint Venture Company Limited in April 2006 for the Vietnam market. In April 2007, Disney discontinued using the Buena Vista brand in its distribution branding, the distribution deal ended in 2016, after DreamWorks and Disney decided to not renew their agreement in December 2015, with Universal replacing Disney as DreamWorks distributor. By the end of the deal, Disney had distributed 14 of DreamWorks original 30-picture agreement, Disney took complete ownership of the DreamWorks II film library in exchange for loans made to that company. In addition, Disney is the first of three studios that have released at least two billion-dollar films in the same year. Furthermore, Disney is the studio that has achieved this four times, in 2010,2013,2015, and 2016—that latter year of which included four $1 billion releases. Four of the top five highest-grossing animated films have been released by Disney, in addition, four of the top-five opening weekends were Disney releases
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Cruella de Vil
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The character became a pop-culture type epitomizing a person who is very, very mean. Cruella ranked 39th on AFIs list 100 Years.100 Heroes, Cruellas name is a pun of the words cruel and devil, an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed Hell Hall. In some translations, for instance in Polish, Cruella De Vil is known as Cruella De Mon, in Italian, she is called Crudelia De Mon. In the French translation of the Disneys animated movie, she is referred as Cruella DEnfer, in Dutch, the name remains De Vil, while by coincidence the Dutch verb for skinning is Villen and Vil is the conjugation of this verb for the first person singular. She was a student with black and white plaits, and was expelled for drinking ink. However, she appears to be on terms with Mrs. Dearly when they encounter each other at the beginning of the novel. In all her incarnations, Cruella kidnaps 97 or 99 Dalmatian puppies for their fur, the One Hundred and One Dalmatians describes Cruella as the last of her prosperous and notorious family, with a personal net worth of GB£6 million. She is married to a furrier, whose first name is never mentioned, however, it is revealed that in contrast to the usual patriarchal custom, he has adopted his wifes surname as his own, in an effort to carry on her family name. Cruella is portrayed as the figure in the marriage, and her husband as a meek, subservient man who seldom speaks. When Cruella has guests for dinner, all of her food is strangely-colored, the flat is portrayed as a luxurious version of Hell, with all the rooms being made of marble and colored garishly in green, red or purple. Her guests also meet her abused white Persian cat whom Cruella admits she detests, upon a second visit to the house she picks up the mature puppies and treats them like clothing to be worn. Cruella also makes a appearance, albeit asleep, in Dodie Smiths sequel. Disney based its version of Cruella on the personality and mannerisms of Tallulah Bankhead, the cool detachment of the original character was replaced by a crazed mania, in which Cruella only barely clung to a sheen of glamour. For unexplained reasons, Cruellas cat and husband were omitted from the Disney version, Cruella drives a very distinctive automobile, colored red and black, based on a 1936 Alvis Speed 20 SD Drophead Coupe. In the film, Cruella has become wealthy off her collection of fur coats. She makes fun of Anita Radcliffe and her husband Roger for making a living from songwriting, Cruella desires to make a fur coat from the Radcliffes Dalmatians, and promises to return in three weeks to collect the puppies when they are born. Upon the night of the birth, Cruella is at first dismayed to find their coats completely spotless. Cruella makes an offer to buy the puppies, all the while mocking Roger for his career and splattering Roger
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Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
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Sleeping Beauty is an American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault. The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29,1959 and it features the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson. Along with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinskys music composition was also popular in the film, however, unlike the previous feature-films, this was the first Disney feature-film that did not have the same background animation material, but instead with new background animation material. The film was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements, after many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, the Princess Aurora. Among the guests are three good fairies called Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who have come to bless the child with gifts, beauty, before Merryweather is able to give her blessing, the evil fairy Maleficent appears, only to be told she was unwanted. King Stefan and Queen Leah are horrified and beg the three good fairies to break the cure, King Stefan, still fearful for his daughters life, orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. The fairies do not believe that will be enough to keep Aurora safe, years later, Aurora, renamed Briar Rose, has grown into a beautiful teenage girl. On the day of her birthday, the three fairies ask Rose to gather berries in the forest so they can prepare a surprise party for her. Rose is friends with the animals of the forest and sings them a song, while singing in the forest, Rose attracts the attention of Prince Phillip, now a handsome young man. He races to find the owner of the voice and is instantly struck by Roses grace. Rose at first is frightened at the appearance of the stranger. They instantly fall in love, unaware of being betrothed years ago, Rose asks Phillip to come to her cottage that evening. While she is out, Flora and Merryweather argue about the color of Auroras ballgown and they fight, attracting the attention of Maleficents raven and revealing the location of Aurora. Back at home, the fairies tell Aurora the truth about her heritage, meanwhile, Phillip tells his father of a peasant girl he met and wishes to marry in spite of his prearranged marriage to Princess Aurora. King Hubert fails to convince him otherwise, leaving Hubert in equal disappointment, the fairies take Aurora back to the castle. Maleficent then appears and magically lures Aurora away from the fairies, Aurora pricks her finger, completing the curse. From King Huberts conversation with King Stefan, the fairies realize that Prince Phillip is the man with whom Aurora has fallen in love, however, he is kidnapped by Maleficent. She shows Phillip the peasant girl he fell in love with is the now-sleeping princess
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Traditional animation
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Traditional animation is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation in cinema until the advent of computer animation, Animation productions begin by deciding on a story. The oral or literary source material must then be converted into a film script. The storyboard has a somewhat similar to a comic book, and it shows the sequence of shots as consecutive sketches that also indicate transitions, camera angles. The images allow the team to plan the flow of the plot. The storyboard artists will have meetings with the director and may have to redraw or re-board a sequence many times before it meets final approval. Before true animation begins, a soundtrack or scratch track is recorded. A completed cartoon soundtrack will feature music, sound effects, often, an animatic or story reel is made after the soundtrack is created, but before full animation begins. An animatic typically consists of pictures of the storyboard synchronized with the soundtrack and this allows the animators and directors to work out any script and timing issues that may exist with the current storyboard. The storyboard and soundtrack are amended if necessary, and a new animatic may be created and reviewed with the director until the storyboard is perfected, advertising agencies today employ the use of animatics to test their commercials before they are made into full up spots. Animatics use drawn artwork, with moving pieces, video storyboards are similar to animatics but do not have moving pieces. Photomatics are another option when creating test spots, but instead of using drawn artwork, there is a shoot in which hundreds of digital photographs are taken. The large amount of images to choose from may make the process of creating a test commercial a bit easier, as opposed to creating an animatic, because changes to drawn art take time and money. Photomatics generally cost more than animatics, as they may require a shoot, however, the emergence of affordable stock photography and image editing software permits the inexpensive creation of photomatics using stock elements and photo composites. Once the animatic has been approved, it and the storyboards are sent to the design departments, character designers prepare model sheets for all important characters and props in the film, these are used to help standardize appearance, poses, and gestures. These model sheets will show how a character or object looks from a variety of angles with a variety of poses, sometimes, small statues known as maquettes may be produced, so that an animator can see what a character looks like in three dimensions. While design is going on, the director takes the animatic and analyzes exactly what poses, drawings. An exposure sheet is created, this is a table that breaks down the action, dialogue
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101 Dalmatians (1996 film)
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101 Dalmatians is a 1996 American live-action family comedy film based on Walt Disneys animated 1961 movie adaptation of Dodie Smiths 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Directed by Stephen Herek and co-produced by John Hughes and Ricardo Mestres, it stars Glenn Close, Hugh Laurie, Mark Williams, Tim McInnerny, Jeff Daniels, in contrast with the 1961 film, none of the animals talk in this version. Released on November 27,1996 by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was praised for its faithfulness to the animated classic and it received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success, grossing $320.6 million in theaters against a $75 million budget. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award for best makeup effects. A theatrical sequel titled 102 Dalmatians was released on November 22,2000 with Close, despite receiving mostly negative reviews,102 Dalmatians was again a commercial success. American video game designer Roger Dearly lives with his pet dalmatian Pongo in London, One day, Pongo sets his eyes on a beautiful female dalmatian named Perdy. After a frantic chase through the streets of London that ends in St. Jamess Park and her owner, Anita Campbell-Green falls in love with Roger when they meet. They both fall into the lake as a result of their dogs chasing each other, but they return to Rogers home and they get married along with Perdita and Pongo. Anita works as a designer at the House of de Vil. Anita, inspired by her dalmatian, designs a coat made with spotted fur, Cruella is intrigued by the idea of making garments out of actual dalmatians, and finds it amusing that it would seem as if she was wearing Anitas dog. Anita soon discovers that Perdy is pregnant and is informed by Nanny that she is, too. Some time later, Cruella visits their home and expresses contempt upon meeting Roger and her initial disgust at them having a baby turns to excitement when she finds out Perdy is expecting too. Several weeks later, she returns when a litter of 15 puppies are born and offers Roger and Anita £7,500 for them and she dismisses Anita and vows revenge against her and Roger. She has her henchmen, Jasper and Horace break into their home and steal the puppies while Roger and Anita are walking in the park with Pongo, along with 84 others dalmatians that were previously stolen, they deliver them to her ancient country estate, De Vil Mansion. She also hires Skinner to kill and skin them to create her coat, a dog who had witnessed the stolen puppies follows Jasper and Horace to the mansion, and finds all of them inside, before helping them escape under the duos noses. They make their way to a farm, where they are later joined by Pongo. Cruella arrives at the mansion and soon discovers what has happened, furious, she decides to carry out the job herself, while Jasper and Horace attempt to search for them also. Meanwhile, Cruella tracks the puppies to the farm where they are hiding, however, they outwit her and cause her to fall into a vat of molasses and get thrown through a window into a pig pen
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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Dalmatian dog
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The Dalmatian is a breed of large dog, noted for its unique black or liver spotted coat and mainly used as a carriage dog in its early days. Its roots trace back to Croatia and its region of Dalmatia. Today, it is a family pet, and many dog enthusiasts enter Dalmatians into kennel club competitions. The Dalmatian is a large, well-defined, muscular dog with excellent endurance, when full grown, according to the American Kennel Club breed standard, it stands from 19 to 23 inches tall, with males usually slightly larger than females. The Kennel Club in the UK allows a height up to 24 inches, the body is as long from forechest to buttocks as it is tall at the withers, and the shoulders are laid back. The Dalmatians feet are round with well-arched toes, and the nails are usually white or the colour as the dogs spots. The thin ears taper towards the tip and are set fairly high, eye color varies between brown, amber, or blue, with some dogs having one blue eye and one brown eye, or other combinations. Dalmatian puppies are born with white coats and their first spots usually appear within 3 to 4 weeks after birth. After about a month, they have most of their spots, spots usually range in size from 30 to 60 mm, and are most commonly black or brown on a white background. Other, more colors, include blue, brindle, mosaic, tricolored. Patches of color anywhere on the body, mostly on the head or ears. The Dalmatian coat is short, fine, and dense, however. These individuals experience much less shedding than their counterparts, which shed considerably year-round. The standard varietys short, stiff hairs often weave into carpet, clothing, upholstery and nearly any kind of fabric. Weekly grooming with a hound mitt or curry can lessen the amount of hair Dalmatians shed, due to the minimal amount of oil in their coats, Dalmatians lack a dog smell and stay fairly clean relative to many other dog breeds. Dalmatians usually have litters of six to nine pups, but they have known to have larger litters on occasion. Puppies dont have spots in the beginning Dalmatians are a relatively healthy, like other breeds, Dalmatians display a propensity towards certain health problems specific to their breed, such as deafness, allergies and urinary stones. Reputable breeders have their puppies BAER tested to ensure the status of the hearing on their pups, the Dalmatian Club of America lists the average lifespan of a Dalmatian at between 11 and 13 years, although some can live as long as 15 to 16 years
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Metropolitan Police Service
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As of March 2016, the Met employed 48,661 full-time personnel. This included 32,125 sworn police officers,9,521 police staff and this number excludes the 3,271 Special Constables, who work part-time and who have the same powers and uniform as their regular colleagues. This makes the Metropolitan Police the largest police force in the United Kingdom by a significant margin, the post of Commissioner was first held jointly by Sir Charles Rowan and Sir Richard Mayne. The post is occupied by the now-outgoing Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe. The Commissioners deputy, the Deputy Commissioner, is currently Craig Mackey, a number of informal names and abbreviations exists for the Metropolitan Police Service, the most common being the Met. In colloquial London, it is referred to as the Old Bill. The Met is also referred to by the metonym Scotland Yard after the location of its headquarters in a road called Great Scotland Yard in Whitehall. The Mets current headquarters is New Scotland Yard, in Victoria, the Metropolitan Police Service, whose officers became affectionately known as bobbies, was founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. In 1839, the Marine Police Force, which had formed in 1798, was amalgamated into the Metropolitan Police. In 1837, it also incorporated with the Bow Street Horse Patrol that had organised in 1805. Since January 2012, the Mayor of London is responsible for the governance of the Metropolitan Police through the Mayors Office for Policing, the mayor is able to appoint someone to act on his behalf, the current office-holder is Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden. The work of MOPAC is scrutinised by the Police and Crime Committee of the London Assembly, the area policed by the Metropolitan Police Service is known as the Metropolitan Police District. In terms of policing, the Met is divided into a number of Borough Operational Command Units. The City of London is a police area and is the responsibility of the separate City of London Police. The British Transport Police are responsible for policing of the network in the United Kingdom. Within London, they are responsible for the policing of the London Underground, Tramlink, The Emirates Air Line. There is also a park police force, the Kew Constabulary, responsible for the Royal Botanic Gardens. Officers also have limited powers in Scotland and Northern Ireland, within the MPD, the Met will take over the investigation of any serious crime from the British Transport Police and Ministry of Defence Police, if it is deemed appropriate
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Old English Sheepdog
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The Old English Sheepdog is a large breed of dog which was developed in England from early herding types of dog. The Old English Sheepdog can grow a long coat, with fur covering the face. Obsolete names of the breed include Shepherds Dog and bob-tailed sheep-dog and it is still nicknamed Bob-tail because historically, the tail was traditionally docked in this breed. The Old English Sheepdog is a dog, immediately recognizable by its long, thick, shaggy grey and white coat, with fur covering their face. The ears lie flat to the head, historically, the breeds tail was commonly docked, but tailed Old English sheepdogs are now common, as many countries have outlawed cosmetic docking. When the dog has a tail, it has fur, is low set. The Old English Sheepdog stands lower at the shoulder than at the loin, height at the withers is at least 61 cm, with females slightly smaller than males. The body is short and compact, and ideal weights are not specified in the breed standards, colour of the double coat may be any shade of grey, grizzle, black, blue, or blue merle, with optional white markings. Puppies are born with a black and white coat, and it is only after the coat has been shed that the more common grey or silver shaggy hair appears. Old English Sheepdogs only shed when they are brushed, undocked Old English Sheepdogs are becoming a more common sight as many countries have now banned docking. The Kennel Club and The Australian National Kennel Council breed standards do not express a preference for docked or un-docked animals, and either can be shown. It should be noted that ranchers who use Old English Sheepdogs as working dogs for the herding and it is done for sanitary purposes, docking prevents the tail from matting down to the body due to brambles or body waste. It also makes shearing easier and it is common to run the dogs through to the shearers after the sheep are shorn. The Old English Sheepdog comes from the old pastoral type dogs of England, but no records were kept off the dogs. A small drop-eared dog seen in a 1771 painting by Gainsborough is believed by some to represent the type of the Old English Sheepdog. In the early 19th century a bobtailed drovers dog, called the Smithfield or Cotswold Cor, was noticed in the counties of England. Most fanciers agree that the Bearded Collie was among the stock used in developing todays breed. Some speculate that the Russian Owtchar was among the breeds ancestors, the Old English Sheepdog was at first called the Shepherds Dog and was exhibited for the first time at a show in Birmingham, England, in 1873
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Fur clothing
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Fur clothing is clothing made of furry animal hides. Fur is one of the oldest forms of clothing, thought to have widely used as hominids first expanded outside Africa. Some view fur as luxurious and warm, however others reject it due to moral beliefs, the term a fur is often used to refer to a coat, wrap, or shawl made from the fur of animals. Controversy exists regarding the wearing of fur coats, due to animal cruelty concerns, Fur is generally thought to have been among the first materials used for clothing and bodily decoration. The exact date when fur was first used in clothing is debated and it is known that several species of hominoids including Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis used fur clothing. Fur is still worn in most mild and cool climates around the world due to its superior warmth, from the days of early European settlement, up until the development of modern clothing alternatives, fur clothing was popular in Canada during the cold winters. The invention of synthetic textiles for insulating clothing led to fur clothing falling out of fashion. Fur is still used by people and developed societies, due to its availability. The Inuit peoples of the Arctic relied on fur for most of their clothing, and it forms a part of traditional clothing in Russia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Scandinavia. It is also associated with glamour and lavish spending. A number of consumers and designers—notably British fashion designer and outspoken animal rights activist Stella McCartney—reject fur due to moral beliefs and perceived cruelty to animals. Animal furs used in garments and trim may be dyed bright colors or with patterns, often to exotic animal pelts, alternatively they may be left their original pattern. Fur may be shorn down to imitate the feel of velvet, some of these are more highly prized than others, and there are many grades and colors. In Europe and Asia, cheap and plentiful dog and cat fur is sold under different names to disguise the origin from shoppers in the United States, such as dog fur being labeled Mongolian Wolf. One example of this was a coat being labeled as having fur from a raccoon, the manufacturing of fur clothing involves obtaining animal pelts where the hair is left on. Workers exposed to fur dust created during fur processing have been shown to have reduced pulmonary function in direct proportion to their length of exposure, in contrast, leather made from any animal hide involves removing the fur from the skin and using only the tanned skin. However, the use of wool involves shearing the animals hair from the living animal, fake fur designates any synthetic material that attempts to mimic the appearance and feel of real fur. The chemical treatment of fur to increase its felting quality is known as carroting, a furrier is a person who makes fur products such as fur garments, fur blankets etc. and repairs, alters, cleans, or otherwise deals in furs of animals
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River Stour, Suffolk
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The River Stour is a river in East Anglia, England. It is 47 miles long and forms most of the county boundary between Suffolk to the north, and Essex to the south and it becomes tidal just before Manningtree in Essex and joins the North Sea at Harwich. The name is of ambiguous and disputed origin, on one theory, the name Stour derives from the Celtic sturr meaning strong. However, the river-name Stour, common in England, does not occur at all in Wales, in Germany the Stoer is a tributary of the River Elbe. Locally, the River Stour dividing Essex from Suffolk does not have a uniform pronunciation, as against that, stour is a Middle English word with two distinct meanings and derivations, still current enough to appear in most substantial dictionaries. As an adjective, with Germanic roots, it signifies large, as a noun, from medieval French roots, it signifies tumult, commotion, confusion or an armed battle or conflict. Wiktionary also adds blowing or deposit of dust, the definition in the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Victorian etymologist Isaac Taylor, now long discredited on many counts, proposed a simple solution, that Stour derives from dŵr. It is quite possible that the various Stours do not share a common origin, certainly there is currently no universally-accepted explanation. The Stour rises in Wratting Common, Cambridgeshire, near to Weston Colville, the eastern part of the River Stour is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty known as Dedham Vale, named after the village of Dedham in Essex. It is an area of beauty on both sides of the River Stour. The Dedham Vale AONB is approximately 11½ miles east-west and 2.4 to 4.8 miles north-south, the earliest known settlement on the river in Suffolk was at Great Bradley, where man has had a recorded presence for over 5,000 years. The River Stour was one of the first improved rivers or canals in England, although partly supplanted by railways, lighters were still working on the Stour above Manningtree almost until World War II. As of 2016 they still operate as far as Mistley, the Stour valley has been portrayed as a working river by John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and Paul Nash. Constables connection with the area was important, evident in such works as The Stour Valley. Today much of the Stour valley is designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty and it forms the spine of what is known as Constable country. The River Stour Trust, a restoration group, was set up in 1968 to protect. Meanwhile, the trust encourages use of the River Stour by small craft and organises events for all age groups
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Labrador Retriever
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The Labrador Retriever, also Labrador, is a type of retriever-gun dog. The Labrador is one of the most popular breeds of dog in the United Kingdom and they are prized as sporting and hunting dogs. A few kennels breeding their ancestors, the St. Johns water dog, were in England. At the same time, a combination of the protection policy in Newfoundland and rabies quarantine in the United Kingdom. In the 1830s, the 10th Earl of Home and his nephews the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, another early advocate of these Newfoundland dogs, or Labrador Retrievers as they later became known, was the 2nd Earl of Malmesbury who bred them for their expertise in waterfowling. During the 1880s, the 3rd Earl of Malmesbury, the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, the dogs Buccleuch Avon and Buccleuch Ned, given by Malmesbury to Buccleuch, were mated with bitches carrying blood from those originally imported by the 5th Duke and the 10th Earl of Home. The offspring are considered to be the ancestors of modern Labradors, the modern Labradors ancestors originated on the island of Newfoundland, now part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The founding breed of the Labrador was the St. Johns water dog, the forebears of the St. Johns Dog are not known but were likely a random-bred mix of English, Irish, and Portuguese working breeds. The Newfoundland is likely a result of the St. Johns Dog breeding with mastiffs brought to the island by the generations of Portuguese fishermen who had been fishing offshore since the 16th century. The smaller short-coated St. Johns Dog was used for retrieval and these smaller dogs were the forebears of the Labrador Retriever. Several early descriptions of the St. Johns water dog exist, cormack crossed the island of Newfoundland by foot. An early report by a Colonel Hawker described the dog as by far the best for any kind of shooting. in his book Excursions In and About Newfoundland During the Years 1839 and 1840, the geologist Joseph Beete Jukes describes the St. Johns water dog. A thin, short-haired, black dog came off-shore to us to-day, the animal was of a breed very different from what we understand by the term Newfoundland dog in England. He had a thin, tapering snout, a thin tail, and rather thin. This foot was white, and Harvey said he did it to toil or entice the fish, the whole proceeding struck me as remarkable, more especially as they said he had never been taught anything of the kind. The foundational breed of what is now the Labrador Retriever was known as the St. Johns water dog, St. Johns dog, or Lesser Newfoundland. The progenitors of the Labrador retriever were actually from Newfoundland and Labrador exceptionally, the two breeds names and origins were mixed once moved into England and the Americas. The dog from Labrador became the large, long-furred dog we see and know today, the first written reference to the breed was in 1814, the first painting in 1823, and the first photograph in 1856
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Moving company
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A moving company, removalist or van line is a company that helps people and businesses move their goods from one place to another. It offers all services for relocations like packing, loading, moving, unloading, unpacking, arranging of items to be shifted. Additional services may include cleaning services for houses, offices or warehousing facilities, according to the U. S. Census Bureau,40 million United States citizens have moved annually over the last decade. Of those people who have moved in the United States,84. 5% of them have moved within their own state,12. 5% have moved to another state, and 2. 3% have moved to another country. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the price is based on the volume of the rather than their weight. Some movers may offer flat rate pricing, the use of truck rental services, or simply borrowing similar hardware, is referred to as DIY moving. Self-service moving companies offer another option, the person moving buys space on one or more trailers or shipping containers. These containers are then driven by professionals to the new location, nowadays moving companies provide transit insurance that covers the damages to moving objects. Moving scam Relocation service Structure relocation
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Bugatti Type 57
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The Bugatti Type 57 and later variants was an entirely new design created by Jean Bugatti, son of founder Ettore. Type 57s were built from 1934 through 1940, with a total of 710 examples produced. Type 57s used a twin-cam 3, 257cc engine based on that of the Type 49 but heavily modified by Jean Bugatti, unlike the single cam engines of the Type 49 and earlier models. There were two variants of the Type 57 car, The original Type 57 The lowered Type 57S/SC The Type 57 chassis. A rediscovered Type 57 sold for 3.4 million euros at auction on 7 February 2009 at a show in Paris. The original Type 57 was a car model produced from 1934 through 1940. It used the 3.3 L engine from the Type 59 Grand Prix cars, top speed was 153 kilometres per hour. It rode on a 3,302 mm wheelbase and had a 1,349 mm wide track, road-going versions weighed about 950 kg. Hydraulic brakes replaced the units in 1938, a modification Ettore Bugatti hotly contested. The original road-going Type 57 included a version of the Royales square-bottom horseshoe grille. The sides of the compartment were covered with thermostatically-controlled shutters. It was a car, contrary to the tastes of the time. Dimensions, Wheelbase,3,302 mm Track,1,349 mm Weight,950 kg The tuned Type 57T pushed the performance of the basic Type 57 and it was capable of reaching 185 kilometres per hour. A Type 57C racing car was built from 1937 through 1940 and it shared the 3.3 L engine from the road-going Type 57 but produced 160 hp with a Roots-type supercharger fitted. The 2nd incarnation Tank, this based on the Type 57C. Shortly afterwards, Jean Bugatti took the car for a test on the Molsheim-Strasbourg road. Swerving to avoid a drunken bicyclist on the road, Bugatti crashed the car. The Type 57S/SC variants are some of the most iconic Bugatti cars, the S stood for Surbaissé and the C for Compresseur
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Mary Wickes
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Mary Wickes was an American film and television character actress. She often played supporting roles as prim, professional women, secretaries, nurses and housekeepers, Mary Isabella Wickenhauser was born to Frank Wickenhauser and his wife, Mary Isabella, in St. Louis, Missouri, of German, Scottish and Irish extraction, and raised Protestant. Her parents were theater buffs, and took her to plays from the time that she could stay awake through a matinee, an excellent student, she skipped two grades in grade school, and graduated at sixteen from Beaumont High School. She was accepted into Washington University in St. Louis, where she joined the debate team and she graduated in 1930 with a double major in English literature and political science. Although she had planned a career in law, a professor encouraged her to try drama. Wickes first Broadway appearance was in Marc Connellys The Farmer Takes a Wife in 1934 with Henry Fonda. She began acting in films in the late 1930s and was a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama The Mercury Theatre on the Air, she also appeared in Welles film Too Much Johnson. One of her earliest significant film appearances was in The Man Who Came to Dinner, a tall, gangling woman with a distinctive voice, Wickes would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedian. She attracted attention in Now, Voyager as the nurse who helped Bette Daviss character during her mothers illness. In 1942, she also had a part in the Abbott. She continued playing supporting roles in films during the next decade and she played similar roles in two later movies with Rosalind Russell in the 1960s, The Trouble with Angels and Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. Wickes moved to the new medium of television in 1949, starring in the role of a Westinghouse Studio One version of Mary Poppins. In the 1950s, Wickes played the warm yet jocular maid Katie in the Mickey Mouse Club serial Annette and regular roles in the sitcoms Make Room for Daddy and she also played the part of a ballet teacher, Madame Lamond, in the I Love Lucy episode The Ballet. In 1953, Wickes played the housekeeper, Martha, to Ezio Pinzas character in NBCs short-lived Bonino sitcom, pinza portrayed an Italian-American opera singer trying to rear six children. Among the child actors on the program were Van Dyke Parks, in 1954-55, she played Alice on The Halls of Ivy. In 1956, Wickes appeared with Thelma Ritter in The Babysitter episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wickes also appeared in two episodes of Zorro. In the 1961-62 season, she appeared as Maxfield opposite Gertrude Berg in CBSs Mrs. G. Goes to College, for her work in the sitcom, Wickes was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress. In 1964, she appeared on ABCs The Donna Reed Show in the episode First Addition, a longtime friend of Lucille Ball, Wickes played frequent guest roles on I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Heres Lucy
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Bill Lee (singer)
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Bill Lee was an American playback singer who provided a voice or singing voice in many films, for actors in musicals and for many Disney characters. He was born in Johnson, Nebraska, and died on November 15,1980 of a tumor in Los Angeles. Lee grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and his initial musical focus was as a trombone player, but subsequent to singing in several college vocal groups, he decided to concentrate on his voice. He served as an ensign in the United States Navy during World War II, the bulk of Lees income consisted of singing commercials for radio and television, much of which Lee felt was silly but he appreciated the financial independence this work gave him. He sang the role in a 1953 Gordon Jenkins made-for-record musical entitled Seven Dreams. Much of Lees best-known work is as part of the singing quartet known as The Mellomen. It was Lee, rather than Ravenscroft, who provided Shere Khans sung line during Thats What Friends Are For in The Jungle Book, richard Sherman confirmed this fact on the audio commentary on its 2007 DVD release. Though George Sanders, Shere Khans voice actor, was an accomplished singer, Lee performed prolifically for The Walt Disney Company. Initially his Disney efforts were as part of The Mellowmen, for the million-selling second-cast Disneyland album of Mary Poppins, Lee performs as Bert and Mr. Banks. In the film itself, Lee sang as one of the menagerie in Jolly Holiday. He has appeared as Goofy in the 1965 LP Childrens Riddles, at the Disney theme parks, he is the voice of Melvin the moose in Country Bear Jamboree. Lee also provided the voice for Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music. - Wickersham Brother Charlottes Web - Singer The Hobbit - Goblin Bill Lee at the Internet Movie Database
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Helene Stanley
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Dolores Diane Freymouth, better known by the stage name of Helene Stanley, was an American actress and a live model for Cinderella and other Disney characters. Stanley was born in Gary, Indiana and her parents were Michael Freymouth, who was an acrobat who worked in Europe, and Gerty Freymouth. By the age of 14 she made her first role in the film Girls Town in 1942, then she played a series of roles at Universal between 1943 and 1945 and during this period she identified as Dolores Diane. In 1946 she started to work with MGM and began to identify herself as Helene Stanley and her collaboration with Disney started around 1950. She became the model for Cinderellas Cinderella, Sleeping Beautys Aurora. Helene Stanley was married to Johnny Stompanato on January 17,1953, after Stompanato, Stanley married a physician from Beverly Hills, David Niemetz. After they were married, Stanley formally retired from show business and her last role in her career was in the Disney movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Stanley died on December 27,1990, in Los Angeles, the cause of her death was not reported. Helene Stanley at the Internet Movie Database
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J. Pat O'Malley
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James Patrick Francis OMalley was an English singer and character actor, who appeared in many American films and television programs from the 1940s to 1982, using the stage name J. Pat OMalley. He also appeared on the Broadway stage in Ten Little Indians, OMalley began his career in entertainment in 1925 as a recording artist and then as principal singer with Jack Hylton and his orchestra in the United Kingdom from 1930 to 1933. Known at that time as Pat OMalley, he recorded more than four hundred songs of the day. He began a recording career in 1935 in parallel with his work with Hylton. At the end of 1935, Hylton and OMalley came to the United States to record with a composed of American musicians, thus emulating Ray Noble. OMalley remained in the U. S. known professionally as J. Pat OMalley, he had a long, OMalley guest starred in 1951 as a sheriff on Bill Williamss syndicated western series, The Adventures of Kit Carson. From 1950-55, he appeared in five episodes of The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, from 1951-57, he was cast in eight episodes of another anthology series, Robert Montgomery Presents. Other television work from this period include roles in Walt Disneys Spin and Marty film and serial as the always-faithful ranch steward, Perkins. In 1956, he guest starred in one of the last episodes, The Guilty, of the NBC legal drama, Justice and he also appeared in Rod Camerons syndicated City Detective in the episode Found in a Pawnshop. In 1960, OMalley was cast in another Cameron syndicated series, COronado 9, in 1959 and 1960, OMalley portrayed a judge and a newspaper editor in three episodes of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams, as a roaming former Confederate soldier. On January 6,1959, OMalley played a priest in the episode, The Secret of the Mission, on the adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis. In the story line, the priest is trapped with a thief named Carlos under the roof of a collapsed church. OMalley was cast as Walter Morgan in the 1959 episode, The First Gold Brick, of the NBC western series, in 1959-60, he made eight appearances as Judge Caleb Marsh in Black Saddle. In 1959, he was cast as Dr. Hardy in an episode of Hennesey. In season 3, Episode 10, entitled The Medicine Man, of the television series Wanted, Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen and he appeared in an episode of The Real McCoys as the bank President entitled The Bank Loan which was released 15 January 1959. In 1961, OMalley guest starred in Bus Stop and he appeared in 1962 on Twilight Zone. In the 1962-63 season, he guest starred twice on The Lloyd Bridges Show and he and Spring Byington starred together in a 1964 episode of The Greatest Show on Earth. During the 1963-64 season, OMalley appeared in eight episodes of My Favorite Martian, in 1964-65 season, he was cast in Wendy and Me
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Thurl Ravenscroft
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Ravenscroft was also known, albeit uncredited, as the vocalist for the song Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Ravenscroft did some work and singing for Disney in both the films and the attractions at Disneyland. The best known of these attractions are The Haunted Mansion, Country Bear Jamboree, The Mark Twain Riverboat, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disneyland Railroad and his voice acting career began in 1940 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91. Ravenscroft left his native Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1933 for California and he achieved early success as part of a singing group called The Mellomen. The Mellomen can be heard on popular recordings of the Big Band Era, including backup for Bing Crosby, Frankie Laine, Spike Jones, Jo Stafford. Their earliest contribution to a Disney film was for Pinocchio, to which contributed the song Honest John. This was deleted from the film but can still be heard in the supplements on the 2009 DVD, despite the song being cut off, Ravenscroft lend his voice to Monstro the whale in the film. They also contributed to other Disney films, such as Alice in Wonderland and Lady and the Tramp. Ravenscroft is also heard with the quartet on some of the Merrie Melodies, during World War II, Ravenscroft served as a civilian navigator contracted to the U. S. Air Transport Command, spending five years flying courier missions across the north and south Atlantic. Among the notables carried on board his flights were Winston Churchill, as he told an interviewer, I flew Winston Churchill to a conference in Algiers and flew Bob Hope to the troops a couple of times. Ravenscroft sang bass on Rosemary Clooneys This Ole House, which went to No.1 in both the United States and Britain in 1954, as well as Stuart Hamblens original version of that same song. He sang on the soundtrack for Ken Clark as Stewpot in South Pacific, singing with the Johnny Mann Singers, his distinctive bass can also be heard as part of the chorus on 28 of their albums that were released during the 1960s and 1970s. He was also the singer on Bobby Vees 1960 Liberty hit record Devil or Angel. Andy Williams recording of The 12 Days of Christmas features him as well, in the 1980s and 1990s, Ravenscroft was narrator for the annual Pageant of the Masters art show at the Laguna Beach, California, Festival of the Arts. He sang the songs for the two Disney serials used on The Mickey Mouse Club, Boys of the Western Sea and The Hardy Boys. He sang the Twitterpatter Song and Thumpers Song on the Disneyland record Peter Cottontail, on the Disneyland record All About Dragons, he both provided the narration and sang the songs The Reluctant Dragon and The Loch Ness Monster. He also played the Narrator in The Story and Song From the Haunted Mansion, Ravenscroft is also heard in the Enchanted Tiki Room as the voice of Fritz the Animatronics parrot. He was also the voice of the Disneyland Railroad in the 1990s, further roles include that of The First Mate on The Mark Twain Riverboat and of the American bison head named Buff at The Country Bear Jamboree
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Horse
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The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior. Horses anatomy enables them to use of speed to escape predators and they have a well-developed sense of balance. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait, female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under saddle or in harness between the ages of two and four and they reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, horses were historically used in warfare, from which a wide variety of riding and driving techniques developed, using many different styles of equipment and methods of control. Many products are derived from horses, including meat, milk, hide, hair, bone, humans provide domesticated horses with food, water and shelter, as well as attention from specialists such as veterinarians and farriers. Specific terms and specialized language are used to describe equine anatomy, different life stages, colors, depending on breed, management and environment, the modern domestic horse has a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years. Uncommonly, a few animals live into their 40s and, occasionally, the oldest verifiable record was Old Billy, a 19th-century horse that lived to the age of 62. In modern times, Sugar Puff, who had listed in Guinness World Records as the worlds oldest living pony. The exception is in endurance riding, where the age to compete is based on the animals actual calendar age. The following terminology is used to describe horses of various ages, Colt, a common terminology error is to call any young horse a colt, when the term actually only refers to young male horses. Filly, A female horse under the age of four, foal, A horse of either sex less than one year old. A nursing foal is sometimes called a suckling and a foal that has been weaned is called a weanling, most domesticated foals are weaned at five to seven months of age, although foals can be weaned at four months with no adverse physical effects. Gelding, A castrated male horse of any age, mare, A female horse four years old and older
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Tabby cat
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A tabby is any domestic cat that has a coat featuring distinctive stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns, usually together with a mark resembling an M on its forehead. Tabbies are sometimes assumed to be a cat breed. In fact, the pattern is found in many breeds. The tabby pattern is a naturally occurring feature that may be related to the coloration of the domestic cats direct ancestor, the African wildcat, which has a similar coloration. The English term tabby originates from the translation of the French phrase striped silk taffeta and this can be further traced to the Middle French atabis, which stemmed from the Arabic term attabiya. This word is a reference to the neighborhood in Baghdad, Attabiy, Tabby is also comparable to the Spanish word ataviar, which means to decorate or to dress or wear and often implies luxurious clothing. Usage of the tabby cat, which means one with a striped coat. The notion that tabby is indicative of a cat may be a reference to the feminine proper name Tabby. There are four tabby patterns that have shown to be genetically distinct, Mackerel, Classic, spotted. A fifth includes tabby as part of another basic color pattern, the patched tabby is a calico or tortoiseshell cat with tabby patches. All those patterns have been observed in random-bred populations, several additional patterns are found in specific breeds. A modified Classic tabby is found in the Sokoke breed, some are due to the interaction of wild and domestic genes. Rosetted and marbled patterns are found in the Bengal breed, the mackerel tabby pattern has vertical, gently curving stripes on the side of the body. The stripes are narrow and may be continuous or broken into bars and spots on the flanks, an M shape appears on the forehead along with dark lines across the cats cheeks to the corners of its eyes. Mackerels are also called fishbone tabbies, probably because they are named after the mackerel fish, Mackerel is the most common tabby pattern. The Classic tabby tends to have a pattern of dark browns, ochres and black, Classic tabbies have the M pattern on their foreheads but the body markings have a whirled or swirled pattern on the cats sides. There is also a light colored butterfly pattern on the shoulders, like the Mackerel tabby, Classic tabbies have dark bars on the legs, tail, and cheeks. The ticked tabby pattern produces agouti hairs, hairs with distinct bands of color on them, breaking up the tabby patterning into a salt-and-pepper or sand like appearance
