Therefore, I state that I met the jazz musician Cab Calloway watching the movie The Blues Brothers , 1980, in which the 'mentor anzianotto John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, and sings his war-horse, Minnie the Moocher , 1931.
Here, summed up the text Minnie the Moocher about a girl being nothing, alcoholic and drug addict who is a cocaine and opium addict and that dreams of swimming in money, but despite that, the song is the background and the title to the animated short Minnie the Moocher , 1932, belonging to the series Talkartoons , starring Betty Boop the dog Bimbo, which is the boyfriend of the same. Cab Calloway from the voice and movements to a "ghost Walrus" by the technique of rotoscoping , which to me seems a sort of precursor to the Motion Capture . In practice, to make it look more realistic movements of the characters, actors are usually filmed in the flesh, and then, starting from the shot, he created the cartoon, which reproduces the single frames of film.
was a common enough technique, such as is used on Snow White in Disney films , or in the film Yellow Submarine , the scene of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds with the girl on horseback, or are rotoscope lightsaber in the original trilogy of Star Wars .
However, the film is directed in 1932 by Dave Fleischer and produced by his brother Max , among 'other inventors both Betty Boop that the rotoscope.
It 's the first of three between collaborazoni Cab Calloway and Fleischer Studios, along with The Old Man of the Mountain and Snow White, both of 1933. Continue Reading ...
