If there's one thing that's absolutely first-rate about the film, it's the character of Cruella, with a voice by Betty Lou Gerson , who achieves almost operatic effects with her sudden entrances and exits, accompanied by clouds of yellow cigarette smoke. She's in a league with the Wicked Stepmother and the other great Disney villainesses - but the rest of the movie is more ordinary.
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Rod Taylor as Pongo. Betty Lou Gerson as Cruella. Reviews Dalmatians. Photos Top cast Edit. Rod Taylor Pongo as Pongo voice. Pat O'Malley Colonel as Colonel voice …. Martha Wentworth Nanny as Nanny voice …. Cate Bauer Perdita as Perdita voice. David Frankham Sgt. Tibbs as Sgt. Tibbs voice as Dave Frankham. Tom Conway Quizmaster as Quizmaster voice …. Tudor Owen Towser as Towser voice ….
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Watch options. Storyline Edit. Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the pups, and wants to get hold of them, as well as more pups, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the pups and hold them at her mansion.
Will Pongo and Perdita find them in time? Walt Disney's new all-cartoon feature. Animation Adventure Comedy Family. Walt Disney , who for some years had spent his attention more towards television and his Disneyland amusement park and less on his animated features, disliked this development.
The "sketchy" graphic style would remain the norm at Disney for years until the technology improved prior to the release of The Rescuers. In later animated features, the Xeroxed lines could be printed in different colors. Unlike many Walt Disney animated features, the film features only three songs, with just one, " Cruella De Vil ", playing a big part in it The other two songs are " Kanine Krunchies " sung by Lucille Bliss , who voiced Anastasia Tremaine in Disney's Cinderella , and " Dalmatian Plantation " in which only two lines are sung by Roger at the end.
Songwriter Mel Leven had, in fact, written several additional songs for the film including "Don't Buy a Parrot from a Sailor", a cockney chant, meant to be sung by Jasper and Horace at Hell Hall, and "March of the One Hundred and One", which the dogs were meant to sing after escaping Cruella by van. To achieve the spotted Dalmatians, the animators used to think of the spot pattern as a constellation.
Once they had one "anchor spot", the next was placed in relation to that one spot, and so on and so on until the full pattern was achieved.
As done with other Disney films, Walt Disney hired an actress to perform live-action scenes as a reference for the animation process. Actress Helene Stanley performed the live-action reference for the character of Anita. She did the same kind of work for the characters of Cinderella in the title movie and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.
According to Christopher Finch, author of The Art of Walt Disney : "Disney insisted that all scenes involving human characters should be shot first in live-action to determine that they would work before the expensive business of animation was permitted to start. The animators did not like this way of working, feeling it detracted from their ability to create character.
The animators understood the necessity for this approach and in retrospect acknowledged that Disney had handled things with considerable subtlety. The film was first released to theaters on January 25, After its initial theatrical run, it was re-released to theaters four more times: December , June , December , and July It was re-released on March 9, , as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video series, but only for "one hundred and one" days.
In Europe and the Middle-East exclusively, the film was issued on a non-commemorative Special Edition Blu-ray, featuring a static menu and no new bonus features. It was reissued to theaters in , , and The reissue was the twentieth highest-earning film of the year for domestic earnings.
This film did receive some negative criticism. Making a coat out of dogs? Who does that? In the years since the original release of the film, Disney has taken the property in various directions. None of the animals talked in it. Its success in theaters led to Dalmatians , released on November 22, After the first live-action version of the film, a cartoon called Dalmatians: The Series was launched.
All of the dog barks were actually recorded by a human. In fact, it was Clarence Nash, the voice actor famous for playing Donald Duck, who created them all. Cruella was animated by only one artist. Though previous Disney movies assigned a team of several artists to work on a particular character, Marc Davis was the only artist who drew and animated Cruella De Vil.
To make production less time consuming, and drawings more complex, art director Ken Anderson utilized a brand new photocopying technique called xerography.
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