ACTION ANALYSIS
ORPHANS' PICNIC
January 30

[...] Wouldn't it have been good to have Duck just annoyed at this
point, but still having a good time at the picnic?

Was the kicking of the kid out of the scene carried too extreme?

     No.

Was Duck's action sufficiently strong to get feeling of chase
over?

     Class divided.

By the way Duck grabs orphan's tail when he chases him, does
he himself lose weight?

Did anyone feel Duck could have kicked less hard, or stronger?

     WARD: He could have pulled harder, and on more of a
     direct line.

     .... There is a casualness about this which is not in
     keeping with Duck's anger. The casual feeling in his
     action might have been built up stronger and would have
     given a better build-up to anger scenes later on.

The scene where Mickey splits into three persons is an interest-
ing one (sc.19, ff.) The idea was used in Polo picture with
a different interpretation, but in the Polo picture that idea
of splitting was used to get over the idea of terrific excite-
ment and of going every direction at once. Here the idea
of Mickey being dizzy is portrayed. The interpretation of the
splitting up is wrong - perhaps by holding Mickey as a unit
first, and then letting him go out, the spectator would have
been given a chance to feel the dizziness Mickey gets from be-
ing spun around.

     Many of the class felt this - about half the class felt
     the dizzy splitting business was done very well.

     ... There could have been more of a pull by the kid to
     get so much dizzy reaction on Mickey.

In order to create the illusion of dizziness, there must be a
build-up of some action to it. If there had been more of a
sensation of wobbling or weaving in and out before characters
spread out, it would have been more effective. When a person
gets dizzy he doesn't do it all at once. In the Garden
picture shown last week, the sensation of dizziness was
achieved by holding Mickey still and moving everything else
around him - there was a slow build-up around that. In this
picture, if the splitting could have been held down at first
and then used, there might have been a much more intense feel-
ing of dizziness portrayed. [...]