Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Jan 7, 2017 21:23:07 GMT
I've seen this before, but I don't know what it actually is. Is this an official Disney-commissioned piece of animation, or something Scarpa did on his own accord for some reason? Also, "Heigh-Ho" seems to be a strange choice of background music for an animated segment starring Duck and Mouse characters.
From what I understand, that piece of animation was used to introduce every episode of Topolino show, an Italian TV show which aired on Rete 4 every Saturday from 8 November 1982 to 28 May 1983.
I'm also aware that Scarpa produced this sample of DuckTales test animation; from what I understand, he was attempting to get the job of supervising the animation on the show or something like that. Does anyone know anything more about this? In my opinion, the animation in this segment is actually superior to what we ultimately saw on the show, although I have no idea if they could have sustained it for every episode. I also am not sure what to make of Scrooge's strange trilling sound. We also get to see dissimilar Beagle Boys ... I guess that decision had already been made by this point.
According to the Italian Wikipedia (but the line is unsourced) Scarpa didn't get the job because Japanese animation was thought to be faster to produce than Italian animation. Anyway, I wonder if Scarpa doing a test for DuckTales has anything to do with the fact that the show took many element from Italian duck comics, like the Money Bin having curved walls and a dome, the colours of Scrooge's coat and the Beagle Boys' sweaters, the yellow coins, the Beagle Boys having gloves (also yellow) and so on.