Dinah Shore reads the text from Olive Beaupre Miller's children's book for Coronet Film's first animated movie.
Well, it's partially animated. Animation has long been the most expensive sort of film making, since each frame has to be individually drawn. There are shortcuts, and so forth, but it requires a lot of artists many hours for hand-drawn animation. That includes limited animation, as here, when the figures only partially moving against a background.
Which is why they hired Dinah Shore to narrate. No matter how much a star like Miss Shore charged, it was only a tiny fraction of the cost of hiring literally dozens of artists to draw figures, in-betweens, and background art.
Well, it's partially animated. Animation has long been the most expensive sort of film making, since each frame has to be individually drawn. There are shortcuts, and so forth, but it requires a lot of artists many hours for hand-drawn animation. That includes limited animation, as here, when the figures only partially moving against a background.
Which is why they hired Dinah Shore to narrate. No matter how much a star like Miss Shore charged, it was only a tiny fraction of the cost of hiring literally dozens of artists to draw figures, in-betweens, and background art.
