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Examining the Transfer of Images of Classical Myths to the Visualizations by Disney Dave Natharius, Arizona State University
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Examining the Transfer of Images of Classical Myths

to the Visualizations by Disney

Dave Natharius, Arizona State University

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The original sources for many of Disney’s animated features:• grounded in classical and medieval mythologies and fairy tales• often simplified through their re telling and alternate versions ‐

This presentation examines Disney’s versions of four of the most well known stories and imagery that preceded the Disney versions. •Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs•Cinderella•Sleeping Beauty•Beauty and the Beast

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A very useful source:

A book of the exhibition:

Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, September 16, 2006 – January 15, 2007.

and

Pavillon Jean-Noel Desmarais,Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

March 8 – June 24, 2007.

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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS,

1937.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs•Best known version by the Brothers Grimm in 1812

•A version from Albania with 40 dragons rather than dwarfs, originating in the 11th – 12th centuries.

•A Russian poem by Alexander Pushkin with knights replacing dwarfs

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John Bauer,THE PRINCESS AND THE TROLLS, 1913

National Museum,Stockholm

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The Dwarfs find Snow White asleep, illustration of Franz Juttner, 1905.

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Snow White: The Dwarfs’ Cottage

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Dr. Rotwang’s house in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

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“Snow White in her Coffin” by Theodor Hosemann, 1852

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Schneewittchen by Alexander Zick

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Maria, about to be “awakened” by Dr. Rotwang in Metropolis

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Snow White in her coffin

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CINDERELLA, 1950

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•Cinderella and similar stories most common of all fairy tales/myths•exist in numerous languages •may be over a thousand variants around the world•“Cendrillon” by Parrault, 1697•“Aschenputtel” by the brothers Grimm

“Cendrillon” by Gustave Dore, an illustration for the opera by Massenet (1899)

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Rhodopis (Rhodope)With Aesop

From an 18th CenturyPainting by Kauffmann

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Aschenputtel with the dovesAlexander Zick, 19th Century

From the Project Gutenburg archivesIllustration by Oliver Herford for the Perrault version

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CENDRILLON, 1899, by George Melies

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The mice and birds sewing Cinderella’s ball gown.

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Sewing mice in Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester

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SLEEPING BEAUTY,

1959

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(The) Sleeping Beauty

*A version published in 1528 as the medieval courtly romance: Perceforest.

*Published by Charles Perrault in 1697, the most common used version.

*Published by the Brothers Grimm as Little Briar Rose.

“Sleeping Princess” By Victor

Vasnetsov,1890?

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Sleeping Beauty’s Cottage

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“Return from the Inn,” Peter Bruegel the Younger, 1620

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An image ofthe sleeping princess: Brunnehilde, surrounded by magical fire rather than roses.

1910 illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner’s Die Walkure

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Sleeping Beauty by Henry Meynel Rheem, 1899?

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Neuschwanstein (New Swanstone) Castle in Bavaria, Germany

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“Prince Charming’s arrival at the sleeping castle,” Gustave Dore, 1862

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The Prince finds Sleeping Beauty

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BEAUTY AND THE

BEAST, 1991

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Beauty and the Beast

*Theme of a true and loving woman can change a beast into a prince.

*Second only to Cinderella in popularity among numerous cultures.

*Has its origins in 2nd Century Roman literature: (Cupid and Psyche)

*Several medieval versions in Italy and Scandinavia.

*The “beast” is sometimes a serpent, white bear.

*Best known version written by Madame Jeanne-Marie Le-Prince de Beaumont, 1756.

*Other thematic stories: “ Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “King Kong”

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Cupid and Psyche, 1st Century wall painting, Pompeii

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Psyche Revived bythe Kiss of Amor (Love). Marble, Antonio Canova 1793.

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18th Century Painting “Titania Adoring the Ass-headed Bottom,” Fuseli, 1790

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“Beauty and the Beast”Illustration by Walter Crane, 1874

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Belle declares her love that transforms the beast

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Jean Cocteau’s “La Belle et La Bete,” 1946

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