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libertarirynn:
Black History Day 3: Cab Calloway.
Cab Calloway was groundbreaking as one of the first African-American musicians to be prominently featured on film. His work with the “Betty Boop” cartoons (as seen above) was legendary because it was basically the grandfather of what we know now as motion capture animation. They recorded Cab singing and dancing (dancing which included an early version of the moonwalk so take that Michael Jackson) and they TRACED HIS MOVEMENTS FRAME BY FRAME to translate them into the character he was playing. None of that unitard covered in ping-pong balls mess. Painstaking frame by frame tracing to capture his motions. You can watch full length versions of the Betty Boop cartoons featuring Cab Calloway pretty easily. I think they’re all on YouTube and they’re in the public domain so they’re easy to find and download. The names of the cartoon shorts are “Minnie the Moocher”, “Snow White ”, and “The Old Man of the Mountain”.
So go watch them now and appreciate a hard-working black musician who pioneered the jazz genre and was a key player in animation advancement.
Also prepare to feel like you’ve drops eight gallons of acid because the Fleischer brothers were high as fuck when they made these. People turn into frying pans, buildings, anti-semitic stereotypes and Bulgarians at the drop of a hat. Others deflate. Some turn into Olympic medals. Chickens emerge from every conceivable orifice. Cab Calloway appears as a walrus.
libertarirynn:
Black History Day 3: Cab Calloway.
Cab Calloway was groundbreaking as one of the first African-American musicians to be prominently featured on film. His work with the “Betty Boop” cartoons (as seen above) was legendary because it was basically the grandfather of what we know now as motion capture animation. They recorded Cab singing and dancing (dancing which included an early version of the moonwalk so take that Michael Jackson) and they TRACED HIS MOVEMENTS FRAME BY FRAME to translate them into the character he was playing. None of that unitard covered in ping-pong balls mess. Painstaking frame by frame tracing to capture his motions. You can watch full length versions of the Betty Boop cartoons featuring Cab Calloway pretty easily. I think they’re all on YouTube and they’re in the public domain so they’re easy to find and download. The names of the cartoon shorts are “Minnie the Moocher”, “Snow White ”, and “The Old Man of the Mountain”.
So go watch them now and appreciate a hard-working black musician who pioneered the jazz genre and was a key player in animation advancement.
Also prepare to feel like you’ve drops eight gallons of acid because the Fleischer brothers were high as fuck when they made these. People turn into frying pans, buildings, anti-semitic stereotypes and Bulgarians at the drop of a hat. Others deflate. Some turn into Olympic medals. Chickens emerge from every conceivable orifice. Cab Calloway appears as a walrus.
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Date: 2019-02-14 04:20 pm (UTC)