Song of the South

[Billy Moon]

Luke, on the main page you claim that Song of the South was the first Disney feature film to combine live action and animation. That's not quite true. Both Fantasia and The Three Caballeros did it before.

[karlsen]

Luke, on the main page you claim that Song of the South was the first Disney feature film to combine live action and animation. That's not quite true. Both Fantasia and The Three Caballeros did it before.

Its true that there are a little sequence in The Three Caballeros that are live action and animation, but I do not think Fantasia is in the same category. If I am not mistaking there are only a siluete and not "real" live action.

But then, would those two animation movies be called feature films? I am not sure what that word includes.

If he wrote that it was the first live action movie with many scenes combined live action and animation, then it would be correct.

And it is seartainly the first film that has that amount of people acting against animation characters.

[Billy Moon]

Silhouette or not, the footage of Stokowski is live action. It's not rotoscoped or anything. And of course Fantasia and Caballeros are feature films. What else?
BTW, Song of the South doesn't have that many scenes combining live action with animation. Actually, I think Three Caballeros has more.

[karlsen]

OK, maybee I have misunderstood the term feauture film. With that I only think of the live actione movies.

I have also just looked at the three caballeros to see and the live actors does play a biger part with the cartoons, but there is a big diffrence between that one and Song of the South.

In the three caballeros you see clearly that the animation is in the background and the live actors are playing infront of it.

In song of the south you have a much better animation where you can not see the diffrence. To say it in a diffrent way, this is the first film that the live actors are IN the movie and not only in front of it.

[Jules]

In the three caballeros you see clearly that the animation is in the background and the live actors are playing infront of it.

No, there is a little more interaction than that. But I know what you mean and in combining the two mediums Three Caballeros is actually quite primitive compared to the later films. However, I don't think that's the point.

[Billy Moon]

In the three caballeros you see clearly that the animation is in the background and the live actors are playing infront of it.

No, there is a little more interaction than that. But I know what you mean and in combining the two mediums Three Caballeros is actually quite primitive compared to the later films. However, I don't think that's the point.

[karlsen]

Yes, if the animation films also are called "feauture" films then then you are correct, and Luke should have written that Song of the South are the first live action where the actors interact with animated figures.

[Luke]

You're right. I fixed it.