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Sequence number: 3A, 8A
Date of document: November 2, 1934
Date of Meeting: October 30, 1934
Topics covered: Design, Queen, Entertainment, Huntsman
Meeting participants: Undisclosed (“at Sound Stage”)
Minute writer: Harry Bailey
This meeting focused on the design of the realistic-looking characters, in particular the Queen. For the latter, it has not yet been decided wether she should be a comic or serious character. An idea for a gag that was eventually abandoned for the entertainment sequence was discussed, as was a staging suggestion for the Hunter sequence, which was actually used this time.
Taken at Sound Stage Meeting on October thirtieth, 1934, from seven-thirty to ten-thirty P.M.
Suggestion was made that “Queen” be drawn along the lines of the Benda Mask type. Procure clippings and drawings of types and characters.
Animation test Queen – SnowWhite and Prince to be made before actual animation begins.
Photostat copies of Queen, SnowWhite, and Prince characters to be distributed among artists for them to re-draw their own interpretation of. (For discussion and decision on at a later meeting.)
Suggestion was made that characters be kept in action as much as possible, in order to eliminate the defects in characterizations.
Queen to be tried out as a fat, cartoon type; sort of vain – batty – self-satisfied, comedy type; and also as a high collar stately beautiful type. Sketches to be submitted and story constructed for either angle.
During the song the Dwarfs sing, one dwarf puts an egg in the hand of Sleepy, who is always swatting a bothersome fly, and the egg breaks on his bald pate with a soft, gentle squash! To the amusement of the other dwarfs watching.
Suggestion was made that the attempt to kill SnowWhite by the Huntsman be treated in shadow effect, against a large rock or the base of a smooth cliff.
