sumnernor
12-20-2005, 09:09 AM
This morning I was reading the german station "ARD" 's video-text (see below) and it stated that in Chiba University near Tokyo, many worthwhile drawings of Disney from the 60's were discovered. There was somesort of exhibit there back then. It included drawings from Fantasia, Cinderella and others films. This news is probably as of yesterday. I was going to download the german text from the internet and that page was replaced by something else!! Perhaps our members living in Japan or Hollywood have more detail information.
I just did a google search and found it - the BBC has the information on page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4544694.stm
Rare Disney work found in Japan
A collection of vintage Disney animation has been discovered in a warehouse at a Japanese university.
About 250 pieces, including animation from Disney's first colour short - 1932's Flowers and Trees - were found at Chiba University, near Tokyo.
Original sketches, celluloid and background pictures from films such as Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Fantasia and Cinderella were also discovered.
Disney spokeswoman Erika Nakajim said the company was "truly surprised".
Educational use
The collection travelled to Japan in the early 1960s for exhibitions at department stores and museums.
Disney donated the collection to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, which subsequently gave it to an animation scholar at Chiba University for education and research use.
The animation cells were rediscovered when the school planned to digitise the images and contacted Disney about copyright issues.
"We were keeping them as very important items," said Hiroyuki Kobayashi, professor at the university's Department of Information and Image Science.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/4544694.stm
Published: 2005/12/20 09:50:18 GMT
© BBC MMV
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Video-text
In Europe there many countries have video or tele text. Stations produce this. It is transmitted in a similar manner as "closed captions" - the TV must have a converter. In Germany, most TVs have this. It uses the entire 4x3 screen with 18 lines of text. Pages go from 100 - 899. Video-text has news, sport news, program information, weather and many other things.
IF you can read german, the best video text in my opinion is from the station "ARD", one of the main german stations. The video-text is also transmitted on the internet:
http://www.ard-text.de/
As starting point: page 112 - News index Page 200 - Sports index
Page 437 "Kalenderblatt" has birthdays and deathdays of important people - This is where I saw about Walt Disney's death date.
Page 599 is "Weltzeituhr" - current times in important world cities
IF you can read german, this gives you news from the german perspective.
CNN also has "CNN-text" - not as good as the ARD - its address is:
http://edition.cnn.com/cnntext/index.html
I just did a google search and found it - the BBC has the information on page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4544694.stm
Rare Disney work found in Japan
A collection of vintage Disney animation has been discovered in a warehouse at a Japanese university.
About 250 pieces, including animation from Disney's first colour short - 1932's Flowers and Trees - were found at Chiba University, near Tokyo.
Original sketches, celluloid and background pictures from films such as Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Fantasia and Cinderella were also discovered.
Disney spokeswoman Erika Nakajim said the company was "truly surprised".
Educational use
The collection travelled to Japan in the early 1960s for exhibitions at department stores and museums.
Disney donated the collection to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, which subsequently gave it to an animation scholar at Chiba University for education and research use.
The animation cells were rediscovered when the school planned to digitise the images and contacted Disney about copyright issues.
"We were keeping them as very important items," said Hiroyuki Kobayashi, professor at the university's Department of Information and Image Science.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/4544694.stm
Published: 2005/12/20 09:50:18 GMT
© BBC MMV
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Video-text
In Europe there many countries have video or tele text. Stations produce this. It is transmitted in a similar manner as "closed captions" - the TV must have a converter. In Germany, most TVs have this. It uses the entire 4x3 screen with 18 lines of text. Pages go from 100 - 899. Video-text has news, sport news, program information, weather and many other things.
IF you can read german, the best video text in my opinion is from the station "ARD", one of the main german stations. The video-text is also transmitted on the internet:
http://www.ard-text.de/
As starting point: page 112 - News index Page 200 - Sports index
Page 437 "Kalenderblatt" has birthdays and deathdays of important people - This is where I saw about Walt Disney's death date.
Page 599 is "Weltzeituhr" - current times in important world cities
IF you can read german, this gives you news from the german perspective.
CNN also has "CNN-text" - not as good as the ARD - its address is:
http://edition.cnn.com/cnntext/index.html