大学英语视听说教程第五单元.ppt

Audio Task 2 Checking the Facts Listen to the audio clip again and fill in the blanks according to what you have heard. Repeat the sentences after you have completed them. Script 1. Early animation was extremely labor intensive. 2. Walt Disney first added sound to his movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 3. The first full length computer-animated film Toy Story was released in 1990. F F T Animation is the art of creating a sequence of drawings, each so slightly different that, when filmed and run through a projector at 24 frames per second, the figures seem to move. Early animations, which started appearing before 1910, consisted of simple drawings photographed one at a time. It was extremely labor intensive as there were literally hundreds of drawings per minute of film. Walt Disney took animation to a new level. He was the first animator to add sound to his movie cartoons with the premiére of Steamboat Willie in 1928. In 1937, he produced the first full length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. With the introduction of computers, animation took on a whole new dimension. Many feature films of today have had animation incorporated into them for special effects. A film like Star Wars by George Lucas relies heavily on computer animation for many of its special effects. Toy Story, produced by Walt Disney Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers when it was released in 1995. With the advent of personal computers, it has now also become possible for the average person to create animations. Script Task 3 Checking Your Comprehension Watch the video clip again and answer the following questions 1. How much did Steve Jobs invest in Pixar? Answer: $10 million. 2. What did Ed Catmull want his first short animated film for Pixar to be like? Answer: Simple and geometric. 3. What inspired John Lasseter when he wanted to create a small animat