Old Man of the Mountain

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Scene of the old man of the mountain’s dance (rotoscoping from the real Cab Calloway’s footage), from the 1933 animated short in the Betty Boop series, by Fleischer studios. Max Fleischer had invented the rotoscope technique in 1915, and he used it for referencing intricate dance movements in his Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons. The most notable of these are the dance routines originating from great Cab Calloway in Minnie the Moocher (1932) (haven’t seen 1980’s Blues Brothers movie yet?), Snow White (1933) and this one, The Old Man of the Mountain. I’ve made this scene in Blender (I’ve used the rotoscoping technique with the rotoscoped scene from the animated short… Will I have created a new double-rotoscoping technique? I should patent it :P )