The Fairest One of All by Jb Kaufman
In 2012 Disney celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Snow White movie, a beloved classic and an important milestone in film history. This book, created with the Walt Disney Family Foundation, run by Walt's daughter, is an exploration of the making of the film that includes never-before-published facts and art. The Fairest One of All won the award for Best Animation Book at the 2012 A113Animation Awards. Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first shown to a theatrical audience in December 1937 and brought overwhelming, joyous applause from a house full of hardened film-industry professionals. In subsequent months it would open around the world, happily acclaimed by audiences and critics everywhere as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. From today's perspective, its stature is even greater--named as one of the best movies of all time by the American Film Institute, and still beloved by children and adults around the world, Snow White can be seen as the flowering of an all-too-brief Golden Age of animation as well as a fascinating document of its time. Such a level of artistic achievement doesn't happen by accident. Walt Disney and a staff of exceptionally talented artists labored over Snow White for four years, endlessly working and reworking their scenes to achieve an ever higher standard. The result, as we know, was magnificent and game-changing for the Disney Studios and, indeed, for the art of animation itself. This book is the first to reconstruct that process in exacting detail, with the loving attention it deserves from an internationally noted film scholar. Author J.B. Kaufman spent years researching the film's history, interviewing participants, and studying the marvelous archival art that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of film history and as a collectable art book, a joy for anyone who loves film, animation, and the magical world that Walt Disney created."It’s fair to call this the definitive study of Walt Disney’s landmark animated feature, not only because Kaufman, a meticulous film historian, has dug deeper (and longer) than anyone else into that history, but because he’s made connections few others have pursued: the origins of the fairy tale, the impact that the 1916 silent feature had on Walt Disney (even locating a photo of it star, Marguerite Clark, visiting Walt in the 1940s), the genesis of each sequence in the picture, the merchandising it generated, its continuing success in theatrical reissues, and the reuse of the Dwarfs in a handful of wartime short subjects." -- Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the one that started it all, setting such a high bar that animated films today still struggle to match its creative and technical artistry. As this thoroughly researched book reveals, its success was no accident. No detail was too small to escape the scrutiny of Walt Disney and his staff. J.B. Kaufman provides a jackpot of information and stories about the amazing people who made this pioneering film." -- Pete Docter, Academy Award-winning Director of Up and Monsters, Inc.
"A tour de force of historical research and insightful writing about the making of one of the greatest films ever! The text of author J.B. Kaufman's gorgeously illustrated book is comprehensive, scholarly, and entertaining, filled with myriad details about Snow White, from folk tale to film and beyond." -- John Canemaker, Academy Award-winning Director of The Moon and the Son
J.B. Kaufman is a cinema historian and author who works with the Walt Disney Family Foundation. He has written extensively on themes such as Disney animation and American silent film. He is the author of South of the Border with Disney, as well as Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney (winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award and the Society for Animation Studies' Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambart Award, and named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times), and Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies (coauthored with Russell Merritt). He's also a regular collaborator to the Griffith Project at Pordenone's prestigious annual silent-film festival, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, and lectures often on Disney, silent-film history, and related themes. In 2009, the Walt Disney Family Foundation opened the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, which is owned and maintained by the Walt Disney Family Foundation. The museum, which was co-founded by Walt's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, and grandson, Walter Miller, celebrates Walt Disney's intellect and spirit as a risk-taker whose artistry, inventiveness, and vision influenced popular culture through animated and live-action films, television shows, theme parks, and new technologies. Walt's accomplishments are commemorated in the museum's exhibits and educational programs, which tell the remarkable tale of the man who elevated animation to an art form, revolutionized the cinema business, relentlessly pursued innovation, and left a global, uniquely American legacy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781616284381 |
| ISBN 10 | 1616284382 |
| Title | The Fairest One of All |
| Author | Jb Kaufman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Weldon Owen, Incorporated |
| Year published | 2012-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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