Betty Boop - Surrealist Masterpieces?

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@CalMeacham

The Fleischers got that depth by another of their patented processes – they’d build a detailed 3D model on a rotating stand, and put a frame to hold the animation cels in front of it. If you look at the opening credits of cartoons that use this, they give the patent number. They used it in the Popeye color two-reelers and in a lot of the later cartoons. It was a lot of work, but the effect is, as you say, amazing. You can watch the shadows in the background change as the model moves.

And we have pictures to prove it:

(zoom in on these)

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/11-1936/popeye_scenery/popeye_scenery_0.jpg

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/11-1936/popeye_scenery/popeye_scenery_1.jpg