Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]

Old instructional videos so much more informative than today’s. They’re so simple. Clear narration, simple animations, music is appropriate and minimal. They don’t overload our senses in the way modern videography does. It seems to me that everything today is optimized for the highest cognitive load - sort of similar to the “loudness war” in music, but for videos. Popular videos on YT are optimized for clicks and likes and subscribes. For example, compare Mythbusters first season vs the last…

Ub Iwerks is one of the most under-appreciated technical geniuses in film industry history. In addition to being an early innovator of multiplane camera design, he introduced the xerographic process into animation and drove the development of the sodium vapor process for combining animation with live action. His son Don Iwerks also created the first 360-degree camera (for use in Disney's 1950s nature documentaries). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks

What i love most about this is how very simple concepts can sum to produce very complex systems.

Ub Iwerks was a true genius! In addition to doing the work on that camera he designed the original Mickey Mouse and later did some brilliant works with traveling matts. The work done in the early days of Disney really reminds me a great deal of Pixar in terms of combining creative with tech. It's hard to appreciate today but Disney did the first color animated shorts, the first real feature and the first company to really make a cartoon…