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Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on May 21, 2009, 09:11 PM:

What character was the best dancer in animation or cartoons. My personal choice is Popeye. Popeye could rhumba and congo with the best of them.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 21, 2009, 10:46 PM:

Ehhh, whats up Dan?

Bug's Bunny, hands down, as he go lead or be led, whether he was dancing as he was, or in drag.

Yep, top dancer goes to Bugs!

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on May 22, 2009, 01:09 AM:

I like King Louie, in Jungle Book. He's bringing down da house. [Big Grin]

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on May 22, 2009, 01:47 AM:

Um...The Fantasia brooms swept the floor with all of them [Eek!]

Posted by Simon Wyss (Member # 1569) on May 22, 2009, 03:19 AM:

Goofy, no question
Have a look

Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on May 22, 2009, 05:35 AM:

Jerry mouse in Anchors Aweigh was quite a mover...Mark.

Posted by Stewart McSporran (Member # 128) on May 22, 2009, 06:15 AM:

CoCo the Clown in Betty Boop's Snow White and Betty herself in Is My Palm Read.

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on May 22, 2009, 07:12 AM:

I agree it's Popeye. But, you know, I am what I am and that's all that I am.

Posted by Gian Luca Mario Loncrini (Member # 1417) on May 22, 2009, 08:20 AM:

Disney's Cinderella and Prince.
They're great, in my opinion.

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on May 24, 2009, 12:48 PM:

Great topic and great mentions.
My favorite is the Silly Song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Especially when Snow White dances, it is a real treat.
The animation is very delicate and fluid.

Link on You Tube

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 24, 2009, 02:22 PM:

Micheal ...

While very fluid and lifelike, there is a very good reason why ...

On the two disc "Snow White and the seven Dwarves" DVD, they show the actual shot footage of the live action dancer who did the actual moves. They simply took the character of White and simply traced nearly all the live action footage.

This doesn't take away from the accomplishment that Disney made in releasing this first successful animated feature, (there were at least a few before), but I found it interesting how critics of other animation studios single out the use of Live action for animation, (Ralph Bakshi was crucified for it), when Disney was one of the Pioneers in doing so.

Actually, Max Fleischer once again, was the first person to use live action footage for his "Koko the Clown" cartoons in the early 1920, (a good fifteen years before Disney used it).

Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on May 24, 2009, 09:17 PM:

Wow! What interesting replies! Well shiver me timbers cha, cha, cha! [Big Grin]

Guess I'm partial to latin beats, but gliding to a Strauss waltz is definitely an accomplishment.

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on May 24, 2009, 11:32 PM:

'ya know....,

you an always learn something here.
I did not know about the early roto-scoping.

Had they mentioned if it was still drawn or painted
with human hands?

But I still love that dance with Dopey and Snow White.

Obviously

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 25, 2009, 09:55 AM:

Your right Micheal
Snow White ...
was quite a hoofer,
a real raise the roofer ...

but she was best
on that infamous
Oscar show!

Remember Snow White, (as a live dancer) literally doing the Lambada on stage at the oscars?! Disney did not like her gyrating and grinding herself up against the other dancers and sued the Oscar organization.

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on May 25, 2009, 10:21 PM:

Ooops, there it is.
[Eek!]

Now that you mentioned it....
yes.

Thanks for the update,
and the cool verse.

[Smile]

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