This Week's Quiz - Let's Get Animated! Part 1

Lucille La Verne provided the aristocratic voice for the wicked queen in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She also played the raspy-voiced old hag that threatened Snow White. How did they achieve such a drastically different sound for the old witch?

She removed her dentures.
She put cheesecloth in her cheek.
Her voice was run through a filter.

In Max Fleischer's 1939 production of Gulliver's Travels, there's something different about Gulliver himself. What is it?

He's rotoscoped.
He was animated by the Disney studio.
He was animated by Max Fleischer himself.

In Disney's Fantasia, this hollywood star pantomimed the devil's movements in The Night on Bald Mountain sequence.

Bela Lugosi
Fredric March
Basil Rathbone

In all of Mel Blanc's long career as a voice actor in animation, this is his only appearance in a Walt Disney film.

Pinocchio
Dumbo
Bambi

1957's The Snow Queen, an ethereal animated film from Russia, was released in the U.S. in 1959 with a new vocal track and a live-action intro featuring this popular TV star.

Arthur Godfrey
Art Linkletter
Ed Sullivan

1959's animated fantasy, 1001 Arabian Nights, starred the fez-wearing ancestor of this classic cartoon character.

Mr. Magoo
Popeye
Huckleberry Hound

Chuck Jones, the great Warner Bros. animation director, worked for a brief time on this Disney production.

Sleeping Beauty
Dumbo
The Sword in the Stone

One of the first feature-length animated films from Japan to be released in America, this 1960 U.S. release starred Jonathan Winters as one of the lead vocals.

Alakazam the Great
Magic Boy
The Tale of the White Serpent

Because the expense of Sleeping Beauty almost bankrupt the studio, Disney's followup, 1961's 101 Dalmatians, relied on this to cut corners.

Xerox
Limited cell animation
Rotoscoping

The first feature-length animated film to be rated X.

Fritz the Cat
Heavy Metal
Heavy Traffic