3. Sound effects
for early
Disney films
Recording equipment was extremely large and heavy,
in the 1920's and 1930's, making it impossible to take
outside of the studio to record real life sounds. Studios
were forced to invent new approaches to creating
sound for their animated content. Therefore, two
different approaches to sound effects were quickly
developed. One approach was when sound effects
were simulated by a musician during a music
recording session. These were largely played with
percussion instruments. The other approach involved
creating complex sound effect machines that could
replicate the sounds of the outside world within the
studio.
4. Animation for
early Disney
films
In 1923 Disney produced the short subject Alice in
Cartoonland, a film combining both live action and
animation that was Alice in Cartoonland turned out to
be a surprise hit, and orders from distributors for more
Alice films intended to be the pilot film in a
series. The company produced mostly Alice films for
the next four years after the Kansas City team joined
Disney.
5. Publishing for
early Disney
Comics
The first Disney comic was published 1955, by
Romano Scarpa, called The Delta Dimension. He
explains what the comic strip in this quote: “It’s taking
a look at the very large history of Mickey Mouse and
Donald Duck from around the world,” he continued, “
bringing it back and putting it in a ‘best of’ package for
North America.” Disney published this book
themselves.
6. Interactions
with media for
Early Disney
In 1955, "The Mickey Mouse Club" made its debut to a
national TV audience. That same year marked another
landmark moment for Disney: the opening of the first
Disney theme park, Disneyland, in California. The
following decades, the company took advantage of
merchandising opportunities, continued producing
feature films, and constructed additional theme parks
around the globe, including Disney's first international
theme park, Tokyo Disneyland in 1983.
8. Marvel Comics was founded in 1939 by publisher
Martin Goodman. Goodman created Timely Comics In
order to capitalize on the growing popularity of comic
books - especially those starring superheroes. Timely’s
first comic book was Marvel Comics no.1 in October
1939. Even before the United States entered World
War II, Timely characters were often portrayed as
fighting against the Nazis and the Japanese. Timely
Comics introduced many superhero characters during
comics’ “Golden Age” in the 1940's. The most
important superhero at the time being Captain America,
who first appeared in Captain America Comics no.1
published in March 1941.
Publishing
for early
Marvel
9. Marvel began publishing digital comics in 2007. They
published the digital comics onto their member
subscription service called Marvel Unlimited. Back in
the 1990's Marvel barely escaped bankrupcy.
They suffered losses from a three-year slide in the
comic book business and then announced the
elimination of 115 jobs, or one-third of its work force.
Interactions
with
media for
early Marvel
10. Marvel were mainly a comic-creating company, but in
2008 Marvel released their first film: Iron Man. Directed
by Jon Favreau, Iron man had a budget
of $140,000,000 and has made over 4 times that
amount worldwide. It was a huge success for Marvel.
About a month later The Incredible Hulk was released.
It also had a budget of around about $140,000,000,
however it made just under double the budget. That is
a lot of money but not compared to $585.2 million that
Iron Man made.
Moving
images for
early Marvel
12. Box Office Mojo says that James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy (Vol. 1) has passed
the $500 million mark globally with a total of $500,527,773 earned so far. The movie
was filmed mainly in the UK and Belgium. On the planet ‘Xandar’ they filmed the
scene at the Millennium Bridge in London. Marvel saw a huge opportunity in
Guardians of the Galaxy to expand the post-Avengers Marvel Cinematic Universe
(MCU) into the cosmic realm, which in turn would offer a gateway towards the
Infinity War storyline and introduction of Thanos.
Moving images for
Marvel and Disney
13. Marvel has released 60 video games since 2009 (when Disney bought Marvel). Top 5
best marvel video games are:
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes (released in 2013)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Released in 2009)
• Deadpool (Released in 2013)
• Marvel Heroes (Released in 2016)
• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (Released in 2010)
Interactions with
media for Marvel
and Disney
14. Marvel Comics is one of the major publishing companies producing comic book
properties today, rivalled primarily by DC Comics. Founded by Martin Goodman in
1939, five years after the establishment of DC, the company was initially known as
Timely Comics, and later Atlas. By 1961, however, following experimentation with
science fiction and funny animal characters, the line was relaunched as Marvel (taking
its name from one of their earliest comic titles), and re-focused on superheroes.
Publishing for
Marvel and Disney
