chb@vaxine.UUCP (Music Mafiosi) (10/19/83)
Rotoscoping was NOT invented by Disney! (no one actually claimed this,
but some people might get the idea from all the comments about Disney
using it).
Rotoscoping was invented by the Fleisher Bros., Max and ??, who were
animation artists in the early to late twenties... the people who brought
you Betty Boop, and her friend who was a clown, whose name escapes me.
The first use of rotoscoping was in a very famous Betty Boop cartoon, where
she is kidnapped by a witch to the underworld. There, she sees skeletons
dancing to Cab Calloway's tune, "Minnie the Moocher"(I think that was also the
title of this short). The skeletons were produced using the rotoscoping
technique.
Charlie Berg a.k.a. Music Mafiosi
chb@vaxine.UUCPjulian@osu-dbs.UUCP (Julian Gomez) (10/20/83)
Rotoscoping was patented by Max Fleischer in 1916.