If you think Cruella is the devil... wait until you meet Madame Medusa from The Rescuers. She's a straight-up EVIL. (the animation is gorgeous, though).
Personnaly, I really like the realism of Lady Tremaine's character in Cinderella. She used to make me shiver as a kid, without having the need to yell or physically hurt anybody to scare me. Though, I must agree, Hades is the funniest villain to watch ! It's really a tie. 🤔
Roger and Anita are, in my opinion, the most slept on Disney couple of all time. Everyone always focuses on the princesses and their princes, but these two? The affectionate fondness, the way they compliment each other with different personalities that challenge each other, the way they have each other’s back, the infectious joy that exists between them. These are my model for future relationships!
It’s like how Lilo and Nani are super slept on as the best sibling duo (FAR better than Elsa and Anna). Stories where the focus isn’t on the relationship tend to have the best ones. In regards to princess ones, I think Ariel x Eric is also great cuz they set up why they like each other & a time skip, with the focus barely being on the romance, which is why I think it succeeds as well. Those same aspects are present in Roger and Anita as well, but here are even better cuz you get the domestic bliss as well. Also, Pongo and Perdita are also great as well.
@@ma.2089 If anything, P&P complement the above-mentioned qualities of R&A just as well (if not better - though that's the slant adopted by the story, of course). The personalities of the dogs reflect their "pets" in a more subtle look-alike fashion than the parade of leashes that opens the film. 😏 🐩
As far as the reasoning behind Cruella taking _puppies_ specifically, the live action movie gives an explanation: puppy fur is a lot softer and finer than adult dogs.
even so, wouldn't the puppies' spots be way smaller than adult ones? so it'd just look like she's wearing polka dots not a Dalmatian patterned coat. not to sound cruel (ha) or endorse her, just sayin'
In the play, Twisted, they show each antagonist as being good in some way to show how in a different version of the story they’re the “good guy”. They do it for almost every Disney villain, but when Cruella appears they’re unable to do it for her and all the “villains” yell at her to her leave lol She truly is the most evil Disney villain
I remember a friend showing a movie where all the Disney villains sing about they’re misunderstood and when viewed in another light, their stories are defendable. Then Cruella shows up and says something like “I only wished to make a coat out of puppies!” And literally all the villains break their singing to scream “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” So yeah. Even the villains think there’s something wrong with Cruella.
I just noticed something! The girl dogs are wearing blue collars and the boys are wearing red. It doesn't sound all that interesting but back before the 40s blue was the "girl color" and red/pink was for boys, so it's kinda cool that small detail was in there(In later books/movies they've switched the colors)
This movie is the reason I was able to bring a stillborn puppy back to life. I never forgot that scene, so when my dog had a stillborn, I stimulated it's lungs by rubbing it in a towel, and she came back around. ❤
This was a favorite scene of mine. It was a quiet, tense moment with just the sound of the clock ticking and the the rain and thunder outside, Pongo moving closer to Roger as he watches him massage the puppy.
Fun Fact: Cruella was designed by one of Disney’s Nine Old Men, Marc Davis. He also designed Tinker Bell, Princess Aurora, Maleficent, Alice, and a few others.
Fun Fact: The game show that they are watching in the De Vill place (that was called What's my Crime?) is a spoof on an actual gameshow that was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s called What's My Line? where the panel tried to guess what the contestant's jobs are. Then at the end, they have a really famous person as a mystery guess, and the panel (now blindfolded) try to guess who it is. It is actually a very funny and I usually play it in the background when I do homework or chores, I highly recommend it!
I love that no matter how different the dog, how scruffy or how fancy, they’re all immediately super determined to spread the word. It’s kidnapped puppies, what could be more important, they all care and it’s great 😄
Indeed. Danny, Towser, The Colonel, the collie, and the lab were very underrated characters and extremely important. Danny got the word out and made the rescue possible. Towser woke up The Colonel, Captain, and Sgt Tibbs to get the message to them. The Colonel and his crew found the puppies, helped rescue them, and bought time for the Dalmatians to escape. The collie and his cows fed and sheltered them. And the lab helped them get on the van to London.
Yes if a puppy has a hard time taking their first breath you rub it like that to basically jumpstart the heart and lungs... In live stock like cattle or whatever you grab the hooves on one side and someone else on the other and swing them gravity allows the fluid to fall out the lungs but in puppies and kittens rubbing it is basically cpr
We had to do that when one of our newborn puppies needed it…but unfortunately, he remained an angel puppy. The vet had tried and tried for a good ten minutes while her assistant was also helping another puppy that the mother had nibbled the umbilical cord too close to the pup and caused him to bleed heavily.
Imagine what must have went through the truck driver's head. He didn't know his cargo was loaded with puppies, and this crazy woman is ramming into his truck out of nowhere 0_0
They actually built a small model for Cruellas car - that's why it looked so freaking real! And if I remember it right - they even used it for the snow scene and really let it crash into a snow like substance for the realisnm.
They used sand for the snow because it looks like snow in black and white photos. They also made models for The Badun's truck and the moving truck at the climax.
Spot on about disney loosing the inspiring creativity and impressive handiwork. They rarely indulged on darker stuff, but when they did they went all in on it like they would the fun parts, and frankly enjoyed when both shared the spotlight. Glad to see you guys appreciating their old hardwork and storytelling!
@@shadowchsr79 Oh i've seen it a couple times, but that's why I said rarely, the rest of their movies don't really get as dark as black cauldron. Sure killing a bunch of puppies for a coat, or fighting off a bear alone, or solving a murder mystery are all grim tales; but still not nearly as much as straight up necromancy, abandonment, and suicide.
A lot of the stuff in the 60s-70s era of Disney was experimental in the way that it was a time when animation companies were trying to work out how to make the overall process faster. The reason that most of the Disney films from this time look a little rough is because instead of working to get completely clean frames, they left things a little sketchy before having the cels printed. It worked in their favor though, since some things that were rotoscoped (painting over real film footage) blended a bit better with the rougher outlines. It really was such a cool time for the art of animation
My mom always told me, when I asked her why Cruella didn't want adult dogs, that the fur was softer and prettier on babies. So 101 puppies instead of like 10 adults was what she needed for her twisted fashion sense Also fun fact : Lucky is the one who was saved on his birth, hence his name
From the live action version, it explained a little why kidnap puppies instead of adult dogs. As puppies, their fur is smooth and fine while adult furs is a little coarse (which isn’t good fur quality in Cruella’s opinion).
@@benlhyenethehyena9947, well Anita didn’t know what Cruella was planning when she was looking at her dress design until after the puppies were taken and she put two and two together. She didn’t even know what Cruella was capable of doing anything in the name of fashion (like killing and skinning endangered animals or puppies).
If you think Cruella is most vicious(not to mention she didn’t get the punishment that she deserved) here then you need to watch live action 101 Dalmatians movie. Glen Close gives so much justice to the character. Glad you guys were into it. Also I would like to recommend Legend of the guardians: owls of Ga’Hoole, The Adventures of TinTin, Meet the Robinsons, Epic, The Lorax, Wonder Park, Sinbad, IceAge movies, Kung Fu Panda movies.
I think, according to the book, the old house where they hid the puppies was Cruella's childhood home. She had a miserable childhood there and left for London to make her fortune. She left the house to rot, but never sold it. After Roger made HIS fortune in music, and Cruella went to jail, he bought that house for their "dalmatian plantation". The final insult.
Kind of cracked me up when he's going on about how they got all of those different barking noises from dogs. Couldn't even tell that the barks were mainly human voice actors, mainly Dal McKennon. There were some really good voice actors back in the day.
"What's My Crime?" is such a funny joke, and it's so outdated that no one gets it anymore. In the 1950s and 60s, there was a gameshow called "What's My Line?" in which a panel would try to guess what a guest does for a living. "What's My Crime?" is one of the funnier gags of that type that I've seen, given the characters watching it.
Fun Fact, this was the Disney movie that started the more Sketchy look for this era of Disney movies, other movies to use this more sketchy style are Robin hood and The Aristocats. However, This movie does it best IMO.
I believe this was thanks to the new Xerox process they had for copying images (which enabled them to have so many dogs - and their spots! - on screen at a time).
Yes, the design and aesthetic of "101 Dalmatians" was a radical departure from the way Disney's previous films looked. It was more stylized and cartoonish, following a trend of other mid-century animation, and everything was outlined much like in a comic strip, as opposed to the pseudo-realism of earlier films. Also (if we remember correctly), Walt Disney was not happy with this new concept at first.
When you think about it, since most of the puppies were bought from pet stores, Cruella might have gotten away with it if she hadn't stolen Anita and Roger's puppies.
10:36 it is, and Roger is doing a form of CPR on the puppy. But instead of the heart, it's the lungs you wanna get to start working. Normally once the cord is severed the puppy's lungs start to work and it's grasping it's first breaths of air. But sometimes the airways are too blocked with slime and the puppy won't breathe. If no action is taken it surely dies but if you harshly rub it you might get the slime out and the lungs to start. If you wanna do it completely right, you have to hold the puppy a bit tilted, with the head down, so the slime can slip out when it breaths. But rubbing it on the back like this can also be performed when it's stillborn, to get the heart pumping again. But it's no guarantee.
101 Dalmatians was the first Disney dog movie that I saw on video and sparked my love for dogs. This film being from the Silver era of Disney, I liked the rough animation style and the techniques that was used to pull of the vehicle animation in the film too. The characters are fun, especially Cruella and the music is very nice as well, including the famous theme song of Cruella.
Also a little surprising how much of the voice cast is still alive from this one. Six still remain, Perdita, Anita, Sgt. Tibbs (pushing 97), and the three kids who voiced puppies are all still around.
The Twilight Bark is a real thing in my neighborhood. We live in a rural area, but not far out of the closest town so there are a decent amount of houses but none of them are super close together. It’s not uncommon to go outside around twilight and hear dogs barking from all round the neighborhood, I swear they are sharing the days news. Our Blue Tick Coonhound is one of the frequent barkers.
I absolutely love the animation on this film, the older style, how it looks kind of unfinished where you can actually see the sketch lines sometimes, ugh, it’s gorgeous. The color palette too, very cozy.
Disney years later: Let's make everyone feel sympathy for the insane puppy murderer, and let's have Pongo and Perdita be brother and sister! Representation for incest relationships!
@@morganspider-manmarvelfan6110 they don't explicitly say it but simba and nala ARE most likely siblings. In a lion pride (= wolf pack) there tends to be only one male lion and we only see two male adult lions in lion king (at least before simba grew up) and I highly doubt nala's father is scar so it most likely was mufasa too, making samba and nala half siblings through mufasa
this was one of my absolute favorites as a kid because it's just so fun. it's not like a lot of other disney movies in terms of plot, it's less about magic or romance and more of a heist film almost? but as a kid i always thought it was so cool just to see how many smart twists there were in the story- like covering themselves in soot, who thinks of that lmao? just a really fun and cute movie and this reaction brought back so many memories lol, glad to see u all enjoy it!
For Cruella's car animation -- you are spot on, there absolutely was something different about that creative process. They actually used a three-dimensional model! I'll leave a short transcript from a behind the scenes special. You can find the whole thing on youtube. Go check it out! You can see the old production reels as they talk abut it. Really interesting stuff: "So what they did was actually build a car out of cardboard and put black lines along the edges. They would shoot a take, the film clips were transferred directly to a Xerox plate, they were painted, and then what you see on the screen is that model. [...] When Cruella goes off the bridge into the ravine and her car is struggling to get up the side of the hill, they had the model of the car and they covered this model hillside with sand, shot it all in slow motion, and the "snow" (sand) would start to slip back down the bank, and that's what you see in the film."
You for sure have to watch the live action version starring Glenn Close as Cruella, just an epic performance, one for the history books! And she went off the animation a lot which really tells!
I had two Dalmatians. First a girl, then a boy. Trust me, when I say, Pongo would have shredded Cruella when she came to see the new all white puppies. Dalmatians were used to run along side of carriages & horses, then guard both while the owners did their business. They (Dalmatians) are super protective. The also continue to get spots, all their lives. Enjoyed your reactions.
I genuinely laughed out loud at "Don't insult Satan!" so thank you for that lol I love this movie and the live action version gives it more depth for sure. Jasper and Horace are House and Mr. Weasley and it is hilarious. Glen Close is incredible as always. 102 Dalmatians is a sequel as well and I actually enjoy it but it didn't do well when it came out since it isn't the same characters other than Cruella. I enjoyed this reaction, you guys!!
It was subtle but I like the part at the end when Roger thought that the reason there were more puppies was because Pongo somehow got laid with different dalmatians. lol
Yes, it's just a subtle hint, one that the adults in the audience probably got but just went over the heads of the young children watching (of course).
You have to wonder... Is the reason that Disney felt the need to turn Cruella into a good guy because one of the executives got real into fur coats, and her kids were like, "Mommy, you look like Cruella de Vil now. You're the bad guy!"?
Cruella is definitely iconic, & you have mentioned the voice actors a few times. I agree that they definitely deserve a lot of the credit! They match so well with the characters!
Little known fact. Dalmatians were bred as "carriage dogs". They were trained to run along with carriages and coaches for dozens of miles as guards. Running from london to Hell House would be no problem!
For excellence in the 'Old School' animation, Fantasia is a must. It's a superb study in what the animators of the time get up to when given some music and told to let their imagination run wild. Not a commercial success at the time but it contains many recognisable characters that always appear in the 'best of Disney' compilations. The only issue with reacting may be copyright as there is music throughout
I watched the live action remake from 1998, which I watched in theaters with my parents and we loved it! I didn't get to see this version till I was in school
this is actually based off a book that's really good. It's told the same way, mostly from Pongo's perspective, but is actually a bit more adult than the movie. And obviously a bit more serious without the songs. All the puppies character design being so different is based off details from the book and it's really cool how they stuck to it. Things like Lucky being named that for having a horseshoe shaped pattern of spots on his back. The main thing I miss from the book is Cruella's cat. She had a beautiful snow white cat that hated her because Cruella had drowned her kittens so at the end of the book she helped the puppies. She led them to hide at Cruella's house and then all the dogs and the cat shredded all the furs she owned and trashed her house
The movie is good but the book is much better (in my opinion). In the book it also says that Cruella had been buying up Dalmation puppies for quiet a while and that they were all different ages with Pongos 15 actually being the youngest.
Agreed. "I've been slack. I could have got at these ages ago," is a lovely line. This book was, and still is, one of my favorites and very much worth a read.
There's also a sequel, The Starlight Barking. It's about a sentient star that wants to take the dogs of Earth into space to protect them from the impending threat of nuclear war. It's excellent.
The cartoon that is shown on the TV when Sergeant Tibbs investigates the first time, is the Silly Symphony Springtime. For those who don't know, the Silly Symphonies were a series of cartoons done by Walt Disney and a lot of them was done as experiments for the upcoming Snow White, like smoke, rain, wind, with color (Flowers and Trees was the first ever color short, Disney's team created Technicolor which they had monopoly on for two years before it was available for any studio to use, other studios had more primitive color system with fewer color options) and testing out the Multi-Plane camera which gave the cartoons a more "3D"-look with the foreground and background moving in different speeds to make more extravagant camera moves, not to mention to animate human characters more realistically (The Godess of Spring was an experiment that wasn't successful animation-wise but The Cookie Carnival proved that they could make a human-like character move more realistically compaired to the squash and stretch animation on funny characters, like they did with the dwarves). On a side note, What's my Crime is a parody of then popular game show called What's My Line where a panel guessed who a person is by asking several yes or no questions. Walt Disney himself where one of the guests on that show but since he was so well-known on TV, the panel had to be blindfolded to make it harder for them to guess who he was.
Cruella De VIL may be a despicable Girlboss with questionable business ethics and sourcing of raw materials but you cannot deny that’s she’s absolutely fabulous!
In Disney movies, lime green is the color of evil. Ursula's magic is like green, Cruella's cigarette smoke is lime green, lime green steam comes from the steam vents during Scar's musical number, etc.
Too many people say the ending was unsatisfactory since Cruella didn't answer to the law. But think about this: There was a car accident, someone had to report it, questions would be asked and eventually the truth might come out. Even so, Cruella was humiliated, her car was totaled, her fox fur coat was ripped, her reputation will be in shreds when the authorities investigating the accident learn everything behind it, and she was outsmarted by animals on top of it all.
Martha Wentworth (Nanny aka the maid) also voiced the goose and the cow in this film, and if you have seen it yet, she also voiced Mad Madam Mim in "The Sword in The Stone".
This is my absolute favorite, I watched it daily when I was a kid! Thanks for reacting to it guys! I’m glad you seem to really enjoy it too. I saw Nine Tailed Brush almost recognized the melody of the Cruella De Vil song, it is the song that Roger sang in the end credit of the Cruella movie after Cruella left Pongo on his doorstep (if you remember, he was Cruella’s lawyer in the movie) and left Perdita on Anita’s doorstep. Florence + The Machine did their rendition of it for the soundtrack.
Fun fact: Did you know that each puppy has 32 spots, arranged in a specific order for each puppy and dog, so they're always drawn the same. Very recognizable with Lucky, whos spots (fiitting to his name) are shaped like a lucky horse-shoe 15:28
This feature was groundbreaking in the world of animation because it was the first one to use (then new) Xerox copier technology. This allowed the animators to skip the step of hand inking each cel and actually copy the original drawing. This accounts for the sketchy style and is why Disney hand drawn animation looked different from this point on.
Right -- and in part it was a reaction to all the care and years that had been lavished on the previous title, Sleeping Beauty, which did come out looking absolutely gorgeous (it remains one of my favorites for that reason), but Disney Studios couldn't sink a fortune and massive time into the next one. So they decided to go with a different look, and a different technique of reproduction (Xerography, as @David Fox said) to speed up & streamline the process... and also in this case, deal with the challenge of all those spots in every shot. (You don't want them shifting around from cel to cel!)
@@DelGuy03 I remember being in the theater in 1958 and they showed a preview of Sleeping Beauty. The intro title card said "Coming in 1959." I think the cards (or the narrator) also said "Six years and six million dollars." That's a lotta lettuce.
@@DougRayPhillips I remember them teasing Sleeping Beauty as "coming soon" on the Sunday-evening Disneyland show... for years! The Disneyland park had opened in 1955, with the Sleeping Beauty castle as a center point, and they still had 4 more years to go to complete the movie itself. It was a labor of love, which shows in the result, but they couldn't sink all those resources into every picture, and it was smart (as well as necessary) to aim in an entirely different direction for this next one.
When I was 4 my family got a dalmatian puppy, he was the best dog, and so lovely and gentle. We called him Minstrel. My Dad then read 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith to me, and the sequel The Starlight Barking (also by Dodie Smith). It was my favourite book as a kid and I had tons of dalmatian stuff because we had Minstrel and I was obsessed so this movie was a big part of my childhood
And my dad would regularly mention this film and talk about dalmatian plantations because of this film, plus people always came up to as to say hi to our dog since he was a dalmatian
Much of the animation was done by Xerox animation, where copies were made directly onto the animation gels. First used in the "thorn forest" scene in Sleeping Beauty.
One of the best. Rolly was always my favorite puppy lol. As an animal lover, this movie really hit hard as a child and even now. Cruella is an amazing villain. 🖤🤍❤
Yes I've been waiting for this reaction so long I think you guys will absolutely love this one especially coz the animation style is just such classic and also the story is quite interesting as well ❤️
A few little fun facts. 1: Cruella's family manor was actually called Hill Hall but people said some shady and evil stuff was going down there and it got named Hell Hall. 2: Hell Hall is in Suffolk England and that's roughly 100 miles from London England (about 2hr drive). So Pongo and Perdita walked the entire way there and good portion back in 1 night. 3: Cruella De Vil's name is a play on words for "Cruel and Devil". 4: in the French translation of the Disney cartoon she was called Cruella D'Enfer. Which translated to "Cruella of Hell or Cruella from Hell. 5: in Dutch her name was kept as Cruella De Vil. Oddly enough the word "Villen and Vil" is the word or noun for Skin/Skinning in Dutch.
Thank you for the reaction guys! I have another Disney animation movie that you guys might like. It’s called The Sword in the Stone! Really cool visuals and story! 🥳🥳
As bad as it sounds, I think Cruella wanted them as puppies because puppy fur is softer and fluffier, and also because puppies are easier to handle and... um... end. Definitely one of the most messed-up Disney villains.
One thing you’ll notice across a lot of Disney movie is reused animation/assets. I don’t know if anyone mentioned it in the Robin Hood review you recently did, but it especially used quite a bit of recycled animation from films like Snow White, The Jungle Book, and The Aristocats. Im not sure if it was for sure tied to the cost of Sleeping Beauty, but I know that Disney wanted to reduce costs to make films after that one since it was so expensive (and had underperformed on release).
Actually yes, it is a fact that stimulating touch on puppies in the first few weeks of birth pp makes them more aware and can have positive effects.on their circulation etc... What roger did was basically kick start the puppies nervous system
I swear, I've watched this reaction at least three times a month since you first posted it because I love the subtle (and not so subtle) roasting of Cruella; if I'm having a bad day, the commentary never fails to make me laugh. I actually loved the artstyle Disney used around this time, which is probably why this movie, The Aristocats, and The Sword in the Stone are some of my most-watched Disney films, even more than the princess films.
Fun Fact: Roger gave up the pipe in the cartoon (Kids TV restrictions and all, but it was a cool continuity transition) He also went from composing music to designing video games which was his job in the live action version (which was pretty good for a live action disney remake [1996])
I hope you guys give the live-action "101 dalmations" a chance someday. I know it's not animated but they made the story their own. I think you'd really like it.
Don't know if you chaps know this, but Pongo was voiced by actor Rod Taylor (perhaps best remembered for playing George the inventor, in *The Time Machine* three years previously - also a great watch). Incidentally, being a talented artist as a boy, I _loved_ Cruella's car and loved also to sketch it, from many angles. 😎
You should watch the live action of this movie! It was very good too, and I loved watching it growing up. It'd be nice to compare it with this animated version
The man who voiced Roger is also the voice of Grimsby in "The Little Mermaid" made 28 years later! =) PLUS! The animated sequel to this film, 101 Dalmations: Patch's London Adventure isn't bad.
The vehicle animation was mostly done using cardboard cutout vehicles that were white, but the edges were lined in black, then filmed on high contrast film. They were then cell painted traditionally. They have a very 3d modern feel to them but done …. Really cleverly if you ask me!!
This was my FAVORITE movie as a child. I watched it a million times and would pick up all the merch I could manage. I was completely obsessed with dogs and after seeing this, Dalmatians in particular. I had a stuffed one that I carried around with me everywhere and my favorite T-shirt had these puppies on it. I liked some of the princess movies well enough, but I was ALL ABOUT the talking animals. Also...I feel like not showing the humans much in Lady and the Tramp was an artistic decisions. It wasn't' that they had trouble animating humans because the humans we do se animated were done impeccably. But it was from the dog's perspective. How tall are dogs? Knee height. Their entire world is below the waist of a human. They have to look straight up to see the human faces. They mostly kept the cameras at the dog's level to feel like they were center stage. THIS movie, while it definitely focused on the dogs did have a little more of a human story.
I think NTB was right about the car being Rotoscoped from a miniature. The transference of weight wasnt the same as a real vehicle. Maybe intentional to give the car it's own cartoonish persona. As hand drawn animation is 24fps, or instead 24 drawings per second, it would look smoother by animating on "ones", or 1 drawing per frame. When it's not needed they animate on "twos", which is 12 drawings with each drawing shown for 2 frames each to make up the 24fps. Working off animation Exposure/dope sheets you can plot out when frames need to be closer together or spread apart for animation techniques such as "slow in slow out". I imagine the Rotoscoping was animated on "ones". The director animator Ralph Bakshi was famous for the use of rotoscoping, such as the amazing 1983 fantasy movie Fire and Ice, American Pop, The Lord Of The Rings (animated ver), and more.
One of the most amazing opening sequences ever. I remember after this Disney made an animated series, and they all moved to the countryside to live in a big farm with all the dogs! ✨
This was the first of Disney’s “sketchy” aesthetic in their movies. The movie before, Sleeping Beauty, didn’t do so well at the box office and there were talks of Disney’s animation studio shutting down. The productions were just too expensive to make the money back. Instead of having the animators’ sketches inked by hand, they basically Xeroxed the sketches, which is why you still see the linework and guidelines in the characters. The process was a part of every animated Disney movie from “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” all the way to its final use, “The Little Mermaid” before utilizing purely digital 2D animation. About three decades.
I remember hearing something about this film using a Xerox copy machine to speed up the process of drawing so many dogs. Exactly how that was used I don't recall, but a Xerox machine was brand new, cutting edge tech for the early 1960's. I'm guessing they would copy the acetate cells of drawings to multiply the dogs in the shot. Or make copies of several dogs to easily trace, either way, it was almost all still done by hand.
Excellent reaction as always! I don't know if you knew this, but the 'What's My Crime?' part of the movie (the show Jasper and Horace were watching) was actually a parody of the very popular game show of the time called 'What's My Line?' And there was also a UK version of the game show back then too. Back in the 60s, the audience definitely recognized what TV show they were parodying 😊
I really do always like this movie when it was released in the 80s on VCR A lot of people went out during Christmas time and bought their kids dalmatians. Sad part that most people don’t know is that donations are usually deaf or hard of hearing so they’re more difficult to train and so many dalmatian puppies were abandoned.
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Who si YOUR favorite Disney villian? Cruella has got to be up there!!
If you think Cruella is the devil... wait until you meet Madame Medusa from The Rescuers. She's a straight-up EVIL. (the animation is gorgeous, though).
Cruella was based on some of the greatest screen and stage divas, Tallulah Bankhead, Rosalind Russel, she was destined to be a great character
Cruella may be among the most iconic villains in Disney infamy, however my favorite Disney villain is Scar from The Lion King.
Scar
Hades
Frollo
Cruella
Madam Tremaine
Personnaly, I really like the realism of Lady Tremaine's character in Cinderella. She used to make me shiver as a kid, without having the need to yell or physically hurt anybody to scare me. Though, I must agree, Hades is the funniest villain to watch ! It's really a tie. 🤔
Roger and Anita are, in my opinion, the most slept on Disney couple of all time. Everyone always focuses on the princesses and their princes, but these two? The affectionate fondness, the way they compliment each other with different personalities that challenge each other, the way they have each other’s back, the infectious joy that exists between them. These are my model for future relationships!
yes absolutely! i always loved both couples in this movie so much
It’s like how Lilo and Nani are super slept on as the best sibling duo (FAR better than Elsa and Anna).
Stories where the focus isn’t on the relationship tend to have the best ones. In regards to princess ones, I think Ariel x Eric is also great cuz they set up why they like each other & a time skip, with the focus barely being on the romance, which is why I think it succeeds as well. Those same aspects are present in Roger and Anita as well, but here are even better cuz you get the domestic bliss as well.
Also, Pongo and Perdita are also great as well.
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If anything, P&P complement the above-mentioned qualities of R&A just as well (if not better - though that's the slant adopted by the story, of course). The personalities of the dogs reflect their "pets" in a more subtle look-alike fashion than the parade of leashes that opens the film. 😏 🐩
@@notconsiderablecolors2account same
i agree
As far as the reasoning behind Cruella taking _puppies_ specifically, the live action movie gives an explanation: puppy fur is a lot softer and finer than adult dogs.
I know this was a book first and now I need to find the book it’s based on just to see if they give an explanation there too
even so, wouldn't the puppies' spots be way smaller than adult ones? so it'd just look like she's wearing polka dots not a Dalmatian patterned coat. not to sound cruel (ha) or endorse her, just sayin'
Now that you mention it, this is subtly explained through a dialogue between Cruella and Anita in the live action version
And them being so small is why she needs 101 puppies, to make a large coat
Cruella de Vil is hands down one of the best, most evil, and most iconic Disney villains of all time. The absolute highlight of the movie.
In the play, Twisted, they show each antagonist as being good in some way to show how in a different version of the story they’re the “good guy”. They do it for almost every Disney villain, but when Cruella appears they’re unable to do it for her and all the “villains” yell at her to her leave lol
She truly is the most evil Disney villain
@@ma.2089 Try Medusa. She is the most evil XD
@@LadyOndyne I actually fell sorry for Medusa. She's only the way she is due to abuse. But then again, a lot of villians start this way.
I remember a friend showing a movie where all the Disney villains sing about they’re misunderstood and when viewed in another light, their stories are defendable. Then Cruella shows up and says something like “I only wished to make a coat out of puppies!” And literally all the villains break their singing to scream “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” So yeah. Even the villains think there’s something wrong with Cruella.
Yes and sadly Emma Stone ruined it.
I just noticed something! The girl dogs are wearing blue collars and the boys are wearing red. It doesn't sound all that interesting but back before the 40s blue was the "girl color" and red/pink was for boys, so it's kinda cool that small detail was in there(In later books/movies they've switched the colors)
So Patch would theoretically be a girl?
They never switched the colors for the 101D canon as far as I’m aware?
Wonder what changed that, likely advertising of some sort
I must subconsciously be old school, because I like blue more than pink and I kinda knew that fact.
36:49 Regarding age: Cruella & Anita are college friends, likely of similar age. Whatever Cruella is smoking, it appears to quickly collect its toll.
Sergeant Tibbs is one of the true MVPs in this film. 😁 He protected those puppies all by himself until reinforcements arrived.
He deserves a promotion 🙌
Get that cat a Sabaton Song! "99 Lives" is even perfectly in keeping with them!
In the original book by Dodie Smith, Sgt. Tibbs was a female cat.
This movie is the reason I was able to bring a stillborn puppy back to life. I never forgot that scene, so when my dog had a stillborn, I stimulated it's lungs by rubbing it in a towel, and she came back around. ❤
@Asta Westh- Kristensen I was so relieved!
This was a favorite scene of mine. It was a quiet, tense moment with just the sound of the clock ticking and the the rain and thunder outside, Pongo moving closer to Roger as he watches him massage the puppy.
wow it works. In the book Cruela drowned her cat's litters
I did the same with one of my foster pups!! She's about 4 years old today 😊
wow it works
Fun Fact: Cruella was designed by one of Disney’s Nine Old Men, Marc Davis. He also designed Tinker Bell, Princess Aurora, Maleficent, Alice, and a few others.
Marc Davis was an absolute legend. I believe he also single handedly animated Cruella.
Really wanted to "like" this comment, thank you for the information. The number of likes is currently on 101, is too perfect for me to ruin!
Sadly, it was his final Disney film, as he moved on to largely developing rides at DisneyLand/Disney World for the rest of his Disney career
Fun Fact: The game show that they are watching in the De Vill place (that was called What's my Crime?) is a spoof on an actual gameshow that was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s called What's My Line? where the panel tried to guess what the contestant's jobs are. Then at the end, they have a really famous person as a mystery guess, and the panel (now blindfolded) try to guess who it is. It is actually a very funny and I usually play it in the background when I do homework or chores, I highly recommend it!
What's My Line? is one of the greatest shows ever. And the way What's My Crime? spoofed John Charles Daly, the host, was brilliant.
I love that no matter how different the dog, how scruffy or how fancy, they’re all immediately super determined to spread the word. It’s kidnapped puppies, what could be more important, they all care and it’s great 😄
Indeed. Danny, Towser, The Colonel, the collie, and the lab were very underrated characters and extremely important. Danny got the word out and made the rescue possible. Towser woke up The Colonel, Captain, and Sgt Tibbs to get the message to them. The Colonel and his crew found the puppies, helped rescue them, and bought time for the Dalmatians to escape. The collie and his cows fed and sheltered them. And the lab helped them get on the van to London.
Yes if a puppy has a hard time taking their first breath you rub it like that to basically jumpstart the heart and lungs... In live stock like cattle or whatever you grab the hooves on one side and someone else on the other and swing them gravity allows the fluid to fall out the lungs but in puppies and kittens rubbing it is basically cpr
We had to do that when one of our newborn puppies needed it…but unfortunately, he remained an angel puppy. The vet had tried and tried for a good ten minutes while her assistant was also helping another puppy that the mother had nibbled the umbilical cord too close to the pup and caused him to bleed heavily.
This movie may be simple, but the amount of tension it brings when they're getting the puppies home is TOP-NOTCH
Imagine what must have went through the truck driver's head. He didn't know his cargo was loaded with puppies, and this crazy woman is ramming into his truck out of nowhere 0_0
Cruella was quite the diabolical character villain honestly. Having some crazy need to skin puppies and wear them is just....👀
For sure!!!
You should read Evil Thing by Serena Valentino. It tells you why she had that desire for a Dalmatian coat.
Aaaaaand Disney wants us to sympathize with that now.
@@domidium Because she is a woman. As with Maleficent. They have yet to realize villains should be villains, not victims.
@@LadyOndyne They did the same with nurse Ratchet. She didn't need her own show neither does Cruellea.
They actually built a small model for Cruellas car - that's why it looked so freaking real! And if I remember it right - they even used it for the snow scene and really let it crash into a snow like substance for the realisnm.
They used sand for the snow because it looks like snow in black and white photos. They also made models for The Badun's truck and the moving truck at the climax.
Spot on about disney loosing the inspiring creativity and impressive handiwork. They rarely indulged on darker stuff, but when they did they went all in on it like they would the fun parts, and frankly enjoyed when both shared the spotlight. Glad to see you guys appreciating their old hardwork and storytelling!
Look up Disney's The Black Cauldron. It's gorgeous quite a bit of some impressively dark stuff
@@shadowchsr79 Oh i've seen it a couple times, but that's why I said rarely, the rest of their movies don't really get as dark as black cauldron. Sure killing a bunch of puppies for a coat, or fighting off a bear alone, or solving a murder mystery are all grim tales; but still not nearly as much as straight up necromancy, abandonment, and suicide.
A lot of the stuff in the 60s-70s era of Disney was experimental in the way that it was a time when animation companies were trying to work out how to make the overall process faster. The reason that most of the Disney films from this time look a little rough is because instead of working to get completely clean frames, they left things a little sketchy before having the cels printed. It worked in their favor though, since some things that were rotoscoped (painting over real film footage) blended a bit better with the rougher outlines. It really was such a cool time for the art of animation
My mom always told me, when I asked her why Cruella didn't want adult dogs, that the fur was softer and prettier on babies. So 101 puppies instead of like 10 adults was what she needed for her twisted fashion sense
Also fun fact : Lucky is the one who was saved on his birth, hence his name
From the live action version, it explained a little why kidnap puppies instead of adult dogs. As puppies, their fur is smooth and fine while adult furs is a little coarse (which isn’t good fur quality in Cruella’s opinion).
@@tararocksong5085 yeah I watched, none of the movie would have happened had Anita shut up lol
@@benlhyenethehyena9947, well Anita didn’t know what Cruella was planning when she was looking at her dress design until after the puppies were taken and she put two and two together. She didn’t even know what Cruella was capable of doing anything in the name of fashion (like killing and skinning endangered animals or puppies).
@@tararocksong5085 oh no of course lol I just am amused at how the story would have not happened if it were not for one comment XD
@@benlhyenethehyena9947, yep.
If you think Cruella is most vicious(not to mention she didn’t get the punishment that she deserved) here then you need to watch live action 101 Dalmatians movie. Glen Close gives so much justice to the character. Glad you guys were into it.
Also I would like to recommend Legend of the guardians: owls of Ga’Hoole, The Adventures of TinTin, Meet the Robinsons, Epic, The Lorax, Wonder Park, Sinbad, IceAge movies, Kung Fu Panda movies.
*Vicious
@@PokhrajRoy. lol i was like.. viscous ew
TinTin was awesome! Daniel Radcliffe does no wrong in my eyes, true I find Harry Potter boring but the acting is superb
@@ShesBats Daniel Radcliffe, in Tintin? Don't you mean Jamie Bell?
It’s vicious fyi
Viscous means something else entirely (something about liquids lol)
I think, according to the book, the old house where they hid the puppies was Cruella's childhood home. She had a miserable childhood there and left for London to make her fortune. She left the house to rot, but never sold it. After Roger made HIS fortune in music, and Cruella went to jail, he bought that house for their "dalmatian plantation". The final insult.
In the book Roger is an accountant, not a musician, and he keeps solving governmental financial problems, so keeps getting bonuses.
Took a broken house and made it a home
Kind of cracked me up when he's going on about how they got all of those different barking noises from dogs. Couldn't even tell that the barks were mainly human voice actors, mainly Dal McKennon. There were some really good voice actors back in the day.
"What's My Crime?" is such a funny joke, and it's so outdated that no one gets it anymore.
In the 1950s and 60s, there was a gameshow called "What's My Line?" in which a panel would try to guess what a guest does for a living. "What's My Crime?" is one of the funnier gags of that type that I've seen, given the characters watching it.
Fun Fact, this was the Disney movie that started the more Sketchy look for this era of Disney movies, other movies to use this more sketchy style are Robin hood and The Aristocats. However, This movie does it best IMO.
I believe this was thanks to the new Xerox process they had for copying images (which enabled them to have so many dogs - and their spots! - on screen at a time).
@@jvgreendarmokit was to save costs on productions
Yes, the design and aesthetic of "101 Dalmatians" was a radical departure from the way Disney's previous films looked. It was more stylized and cartoonish, following a trend of other mid-century animation, and everything was outlined much like in a comic strip, as opposed to the pseudo-realism of earlier films. Also (if we remember correctly), Walt Disney was not happy with this new concept at first.
When you think about it, since most of the puppies were bought from pet stores, Cruella might have gotten away with it if she hadn't stolen Anita and Roger's puppies.
10:36 it is, and Roger is doing a form of CPR on the puppy. But instead of the heart, it's the lungs you wanna get to start working.
Normally once the cord is severed the puppy's lungs start to work and it's grasping it's first breaths of air. But sometimes the airways are too blocked with slime and the puppy won't breathe. If no action is taken it surely dies but if you harshly rub it you might get the slime out and the lungs to start. If you wanna do it completely right, you have to hold the puppy a bit tilted, with the head down, so the slime can slip out when it breaths.
But rubbing it on the back like this can also be performed when it's stillborn, to get the heart pumping again. But it's no guarantee.
101 Dalmatians was the first Disney dog movie that I saw on video and sparked my love for dogs. This film being from the Silver era of Disney, I liked the rough animation style and the techniques that was used to pull of the vehicle animation in the film too. The characters are fun, especially Cruella and the music is very nice as well, including the famous theme song of Cruella.
“Don’t insult satan”, “I think her hairs her best point”, the savagery 😂
Also a little surprising how much of the voice cast is still alive from this one. Six still remain, Perdita, Anita, Sgt. Tibbs (pushing 97), and the three kids who voiced puppies are all still around.
The Twilight Bark is a real thing in my neighborhood. We live in a rural area, but not far out of the closest town so there are a decent amount of houses but none of them are super close together. It’s not uncommon to go outside around twilight and hear dogs barking from all round the neighborhood, I swear they are sharing the days news. Our Blue Tick Coonhound is one of the frequent barkers.
I absolutely love the animation on this film, the older style, how it looks kind of unfinished where you can actually see the sketch lines sometimes, ugh, it’s gorgeous. The color palette too, very cozy.
The Great Dane that you said looked like Scooby-Doo was designed by the very animator who would go on to create Scooby-Doo
11:01 "Don't insult Satan" "Satan has better hair" I almost choked from laughing
Even as a Christian I choked on that too 🤣
Disney years later: Let's make everyone feel sympathy for the insane puppy murderer, and let's have Pongo and Perdita be brother and sister! Representation for incest relationships!
Yeah. I felt the same way. Pongo and Perdy being related to each other, and it feels like Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia all over again.
Or with simba and nala
@@amandagrubbs3000 I doubt that one, cause they were friends.
@@morganspider-manmarvelfan6110 they don't explicitly say it but simba and nala ARE most likely siblings. In a lion pride (= wolf pack) there tends to be only one male lion and we only see two male adult lions in lion king (at least before simba grew up) and I highly doubt nala's father is scar so it most likely was mufasa too, making samba and nala half siblings through mufasa
@@sudsysoap Ohhhhh
this was one of my absolute favorites as a kid because it's just so fun. it's not like a lot of other disney movies in terms of plot, it's less about magic or romance and more of a heist film almost? but as a kid i always thought it was so cool just to see how many smart twists there were in the story- like covering themselves in soot, who thinks of that lmao? just a really fun and cute movie and this reaction brought back so many memories lol, glad to see u all enjoy it!
For Cruella's car animation -- you are spot on, there absolutely was something different about that creative process. They actually used a three-dimensional model! I'll leave a short transcript from a behind the scenes special. You can find the whole thing on youtube. Go check it out! You can see the old production reels as they talk abut it. Really interesting stuff:
"So what they did was actually build a car out of cardboard and put black lines along the edges. They would shoot a take, the film clips were transferred directly to a Xerox plate, they were painted, and then what you see on the screen is that model. [...] When Cruella goes off the bridge into the ravine and her car is struggling to get up the side of the hill, they had the model of the car and they covered this model hillside with sand, shot it all in slow motion, and the "snow" (sand) would start to slip back down the bank, and that's what you see in the film."
You for sure have to watch the live action version starring Glenn Close as Cruella, just an epic performance, one for the history books! And she went off the animation a lot which really tells!
It also has my favorite line. Cruella: "Congratulations. You just won medals. In the idiot olympics." Horice: "Who won the gold?"
I had two Dalmatians. First a girl, then a boy. Trust me, when I say, Pongo would have shredded Cruella when she came to see the new all white puppies. Dalmatians were used to run along side of carriages & horses, then guard both while the owners did their business. They (Dalmatians) are super protective. The also continue to get spots, all their lives. Enjoyed your reactions.
I genuinely laughed out loud at "Don't insult Satan!" so thank you for that lol I love this movie and the live action version gives it more depth for sure. Jasper and Horace are House and Mr. Weasley and it is hilarious. Glen Close is incredible as always. 102 Dalmatians is a sequel as well and I actually enjoy it but it didn't do well when it came out since it isn't the same characters other than Cruella. I enjoyed this reaction, you guys!!
It was subtle but I like the part at the end when Roger thought that the reason there were more puppies was because Pongo somehow got laid with different dalmatians. lol
Yes, it's just a subtle hint, one that the adults in the audience probably got but just went over the heads of the young children watching (of course).
In the live action version it explains why they what them to be puppies. Its because fur from Dalmatians is course while the puppies have soft fur
You have to wonder... Is the reason that Disney felt the need to turn Cruella into a good guy because one of the executives got real into fur coats, and her kids were like, "Mommy, you look like Cruella de Vil now. You're the bad guy!"?
As I suspected, the Disney villains are now running the company!
Cruella is definitely iconic, & you have mentioned the voice actors a few times. I agree that they definitely deserve a lot of the credit! They match so well with the characters!
Little known fact. Dalmatians were bred as "carriage dogs". They were trained to run along with carriages and coaches for dozens of miles as guards. Running from london to Hell House would be no problem!
They say Hell Hall is in Suffolk, so roughly 80-100 miles away from the Radcliff household.
This movie is just so charming and has one of my favourite Disney art styles! I love that it really has the feeling of a classic live action film now.
For excellence in the 'Old School' animation, Fantasia is a must. It's a superb study in what the animators of the time get up to when given some music and told to let their imagination run wild. Not a commercial success at the time but it contains many recognisable characters that always appear in the 'best of Disney' compilations. The only issue with reacting may be copyright as there is music throughout
But isn't most of the music classical music that's considered public domain?
Sargent Tibbs is one of the most heroic and best cats in cinema.
I watched the live action remake from 1998, which I watched in theaters with my parents and we loved it!
I didn't get to see this version till I was in school
They reused several of the dog characters from Lady and the Tramp during the Twilight Bark scene.
this is actually based off a book that's really good. It's told the same way, mostly from Pongo's perspective, but is actually a bit more adult than the movie. And obviously a bit more serious without the songs. All the puppies character design being so different is based off details from the book and it's really cool how they stuck to it. Things like Lucky being named that for having a horseshoe shaped pattern of spots on his back.
The main thing I miss from the book is Cruella's cat. She had a beautiful snow white cat that hated her because Cruella had drowned her kittens so at the end of the book she helped the puppies. She led them to hide at Cruella's house and then all the dogs and the cat shredded all the furs she owned and trashed her house
The movie is good but the book is much better (in my opinion). In the book it also says that Cruella had been buying up Dalmation puppies for quiet a while and that they were all different ages with Pongos 15 actually being the youngest.
Well, there is the character of Seargent Tibbs that could be kinda reminiscent of the cat from the book
Agreed. "I've been slack. I could have got at these ages ago," is a lovely line. This book was, and still is, one of my favorites and very much worth a read.
There's also a sequel, The Starlight Barking. It's about a sentient star that wants to take the dogs of Earth into space to protect them from the impending threat of nuclear war.
It's excellent.
@@federicodelia512 Sargent Tibbs is actually in the book too, and eventually gets along well with Cruella's cat (who I don't think gets a name).
The cartoon that is shown on the TV when Sergeant Tibbs investigates the first time, is the Silly Symphony Springtime. For those who don't know, the Silly Symphonies were a series of cartoons done by Walt Disney and a lot of them was done as experiments for the upcoming Snow White, like smoke, rain, wind, with color (Flowers and Trees was the first ever color short, Disney's team created Technicolor which they had monopoly on for two years before it was available for any studio to use, other studios had more primitive color system with fewer color options) and testing out the Multi-Plane camera which gave the cartoons a more "3D"-look with the foreground and background moving in different speeds to make more extravagant camera moves, not to mention to animate human characters more realistically (The Godess of Spring was an experiment that wasn't successful animation-wise but The Cookie Carnival proved that they could make a human-like character move more realistically compaired to the squash and stretch animation on funny characters, like they did with the dwarves).
On a side note, What's my Crime is a parody of then popular game show called What's My Line where a panel guessed who a person is by asking several yes or no questions. Walt Disney himself where one of the guests on that show but since he was so well-known on TV, the panel had to be blindfolded to make it harder for them to guess who he was.
Cruella De VIL may be a despicable Girlboss with questionable business ethics and sourcing of raw materials but you cannot deny that’s she’s absolutely fabulous!
The guy who voice Roger in this later voiced Grimsby in the Little Mermaid in 89, but he had to remind them cause no one remembered.
Fun fact: They made a sequel to this movie where the pup Patch ends up getting left behind & meeting Thunderbolt from the TV show they like watching
Always loved Roger for making his Diss Track/Song when Cruella was there and within earshot :D
Fun Fact: The puppies’ barking was voiced by Clarence Nash, the same voice as Donald Duck! 🐶
In Disney movies, lime green is the color of evil. Ursula's magic is like green, Cruella's cigarette smoke is lime green, lime green steam comes from the steam vents during Scar's musical number, etc.
And I like how recently they subverted their own trope! (spoiler alert for "Encanto")
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Because Bruno's not evil!
It never ceases to amaze me how suspenseful this kids movie is! It will always be my favorite not-princess Disney animated movie. ❤
Too many people say the ending was unsatisfactory since Cruella didn't answer to the law. But think about this: There was a car accident, someone had to report it, questions would be asked and eventually the truth might come out. Even so, Cruella was humiliated, her car was totaled, her fox fur coat was ripped, her reputation will be in shreds when the authorities investigating the accident learn everything behind it, and she was outsmarted by animals on top of it all.
Looking forward to this! Please react to the live action movie! It was really well done in my opinion. The actress who played Cruella was awesome!!!
Martha Wentworth (Nanny aka the maid) also voiced the goose and the cow in this film, and if you have seen it yet, she also voiced Mad Madam Mim in "The Sword in The Stone".
This is my absolute favorite, I watched it daily when I was a kid! Thanks for reacting to it guys! I’m glad you seem to really enjoy it too. I saw Nine Tailed Brush almost recognized the melody of the Cruella De Vil song, it is the song that Roger sang in the end credit of the Cruella movie after Cruella left Pongo on his doorstep (if you remember, he was Cruella’s lawyer in the movie) and left Perdita on Anita’s doorstep. Florence + The Machine did their rendition of it for the soundtrack.
Sergeant Tibbs is the unsung hero of this movie he literally saved 90+ Puppies. He is honestly one of my favorite side characters in this movie.
Fun fact: Did you know that each puppy has 32 spots, arranged in a specific order for each puppy and dog, so they're always drawn the same. Very recognizable with Lucky, whos spots (fiitting to his name) are shaped like a lucky horse-shoe 15:28
This feature was groundbreaking in the world of animation because it was the first one to use (then new) Xerox copier technology. This allowed the animators to skip the step of hand inking each cel and actually copy the original drawing. This accounts for the sketchy style and is why Disney hand drawn animation looked different from this point on.
Right -- and in part it was a reaction to all the care and years that had been lavished on the previous title, Sleeping Beauty, which did come out looking absolutely gorgeous (it remains one of my favorites for that reason), but Disney Studios couldn't sink a fortune and massive time into the next one. So they decided to go with a different look, and a different technique of reproduction (Xerography, as @David Fox said) to speed up & streamline the process... and also in this case, deal with the challenge of all those spots in every shot. (You don't want them shifting around from cel to cel!)
@@DelGuy03 I remember being in the theater in 1958 and they showed a preview of Sleeping Beauty. The intro title card said "Coming in 1959." I think the cards (or the narrator) also said "Six years and six million dollars." That's a lotta lettuce.
@@DougRayPhillips I remember them teasing Sleeping Beauty as "coming soon" on the Sunday-evening Disneyland show... for years! The Disneyland park had opened in 1955, with the Sleeping Beauty castle as a center point, and they still had 4 more years to go to complete the movie itself. It was a labor of love, which shows in the result, but they couldn't sink all those resources into every picture, and it was smart (as well as necessary) to aim in an entirely different direction for this next one.
My kids were scared to death of Cruella. She is a scary villain.
When Perida stopped one of the puppies from falling out the truck near the end, I had the same thought: That is too close.
Yes!! Been waiting for this one!!
Now the only thing on my wishlist for this channel is “The AristoCats”. Love you guys.
When I was 4 my family got a dalmatian puppy, he was the best dog, and so lovely and gentle. We called him Minstrel. My Dad then read 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith to me, and the sequel The Starlight Barking (also by Dodie Smith). It was my favourite book as a kid and I had tons of dalmatian stuff because we had Minstrel and I was obsessed so this movie was a big part of my childhood
And my dad would regularly mention this film and talk about dalmatian plantations because of this film, plus people always came up to as to say hi to our dog since he was a dalmatian
Much of the animation was done by Xerox animation, where copies were made directly onto the animation gels. First used in the "thorn forest" scene in Sleeping Beauty.
One of the best. Rolly was always my favorite puppy lol. As an animal lover, this movie really hit hard as a child and even now. Cruella is an amazing villain. 🖤🤍❤
Yes I've been waiting for this reaction so long I think you guys will absolutely love this one especially coz the animation style is just such classic and also the story is quite interesting as well ❤️
The book sequel to 101 Dalmatians is pretty insane. Talking about nuclear war and telepathy.
A few little fun facts.
1: Cruella's family manor was actually called Hill Hall but people said some shady and evil stuff was going down there and it got named Hell Hall.
2: Hell Hall is in Suffolk England and that's roughly 100 miles from London England (about 2hr drive). So Pongo and Perdita walked the entire way there and good portion back in 1 night.
3: Cruella De Vil's name is a play on words for "Cruel and Devil".
4: in the French translation of the Disney cartoon she was called Cruella D'Enfer. Which translated to "Cruella of Hell or Cruella from Hell.
5: in Dutch her name was kept as Cruella De Vil. Oddly enough the word "Villen and Vil" is the word or noun for Skin/Skinning in Dutch.
Thank you for the reaction guys! I have another Disney animation movie that you guys might like. It’s called The Sword in the Stone! Really cool visuals and story! 🥳🥳
Ah that's a wonderful classic ^_^
And bedknobs and broomsticks was another absolute classic
@@belh8451 In light of Angela Lansbury’s passing, that would make for a good reaction video.
As bad as it sounds, I think Cruella wanted them as puppies because puppy fur is softer and fluffier, and also because puppies are easier to handle and... um... end.
Definitely one of the most messed-up Disney villains.
One thing you’ll notice across a lot of Disney movie is reused animation/assets. I don’t know if anyone mentioned it in the Robin Hood review you recently did, but it especially used quite a bit of recycled animation from films like Snow White, The Jungle Book, and The Aristocats. Im not sure if it was for sure tied to the cost of Sleeping Beauty, but I know that Disney wanted to reduce costs to make films after that one since it was so expensive (and had underperformed on release).
Actually yes, it is a fact that stimulating touch on puppies in the first few weeks of birth pp makes them more aware and can have positive effects.on their circulation etc...
What roger did was basically kick start the puppies nervous system
I swear, I've watched this reaction at least three times a month since you first posted it because I love the subtle (and not so subtle) roasting of Cruella; if I'm having a bad day, the commentary never fails to make me laugh. I actually loved the artstyle Disney used around this time, which is probably why this movie, The Aristocats, and The Sword in the Stone are some of my most-watched Disney films, even more than the princess films.
There is a live action 101 Dalmatians movie with Glenn Close as Cruella. She is great as the villain.
Im 34 and I get so much goosebumps when the pups come home
"Satan your disguise is coming off" made me laugh so hard🤣
Fun Fact: Roger gave up the pipe in the cartoon (Kids TV restrictions and all, but it was a cool continuity transition) He also went from composing music to designing video games which was his job in the live action version (which was pretty good for a live action disney remake [1996])
I hope you guys give the live-action "101 dalmations" a chance someday. I know it's not animated but they made the story their own. I think you'd really like it.
Don't know if you chaps know this, but Pongo was voiced by actor Rod Taylor (perhaps best remembered for playing George the inventor, in *The Time Machine* three years previously - also a great watch).
Incidentally, being a talented artist as a boy, I _loved_ Cruella's car and loved also to sketch it, from many angles. 😎
You should watch the live action of this movie! It was very good too, and I loved watching it growing up. It'd be nice to compare it with this animated version
People sometimes don't think about what names mean, but Cruella de Vil literally means Cruel Devil.
The man who voiced Roger is also the voice of Grimsby in "The Little Mermaid" made 28 years later! =)
PLUS! The animated sequel to this film, 101 Dalmations: Patch's London Adventure isn't bad.
I did some digging and discovered that the barking sfx are from the original Lassie TV Show
The vehicle animation was mostly done using cardboard cutout vehicles that were white, but the edges were lined in black, then filmed on high contrast film. They were then cell painted traditionally.
They have a very 3d modern feel to them but done …. Really cleverly if you ask me!!
This was my FAVORITE movie as a child. I watched it a million times and would pick up all the merch I could manage. I was completely obsessed with dogs and after seeing this, Dalmatians in particular. I had a stuffed one that I carried around with me everywhere and my favorite T-shirt had these puppies on it. I liked some of the princess movies well enough, but I was ALL ABOUT the talking animals.
Also...I feel like not showing the humans much in Lady and the Tramp was an artistic decisions. It wasn't' that they had trouble animating humans because the humans we do se animated were done impeccably. But it was from the dog's perspective. How tall are dogs? Knee height. Their entire world is below the waist of a human. They have to look straight up to see the human faces. They mostly kept the cameras at the dog's level to feel like they were center stage. THIS movie, while it definitely focused on the dogs did have a little more of a human story.
'He looks like Scooby Doo'
Well, they ARE both Great Danes.
I think NTB was right about the car being Rotoscoped from a miniature. The transference of weight wasnt the same as a real vehicle. Maybe intentional to give the car it's own cartoonish persona. As hand drawn animation is 24fps, or instead 24 drawings per second, it would look smoother by animating on "ones", or 1 drawing per frame. When it's not needed they animate on "twos", which is 12 drawings with each drawing shown for 2 frames each to make up the 24fps. Working off animation Exposure/dope sheets you can plot out when frames need to be closer together or spread apart for animation techniques such as "slow in slow out". I imagine the Rotoscoping was animated on "ones". The director animator Ralph Bakshi was famous for the use of rotoscoping, such as the amazing 1983 fantasy movie Fire and Ice, American Pop, The Lord Of The Rings (animated ver), and more.
One of the most amazing opening sequences ever. I remember after this Disney made an animated series, and they all moved to the countryside to live in a big farm with all the dogs! ✨
101Dalmations II: Patch's London Adventure
This was the first of Disney’s “sketchy” aesthetic in their movies.
The movie before, Sleeping Beauty, didn’t do so well at the box office and there were talks of Disney’s animation studio shutting down. The productions were just too expensive to make the money back. Instead of having the animators’ sketches inked by hand, they basically Xeroxed the sketches, which is why you still see the linework and guidelines in the characters.
The process was a part of every animated Disney movie from “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” all the way to its final use, “The Little Mermaid” before utilizing purely digital 2D animation. About three decades.
I remember hearing something about this film using a Xerox copy machine to speed up the process of drawing so many dogs. Exactly how that was used I don't recall, but a Xerox machine was brand new, cutting edge tech for the early 1960's.
I'm guessing they would copy the acetate cells of drawings to multiply the dogs in the shot. Or make copies of several dogs to easily trace, either way, it was almost all still done by hand.
You should definitely react to the 90s live action version of this movie!! I loved it growing up
Old cartoons like this have a real charm and chill vibe. One of my favs.
The Fox and The Hound maybe next?
Excellent reaction as always! I don't know if you knew this, but the 'What's My Crime?' part of the movie (the show Jasper and Horace were watching) was actually a parody of the very popular game show of the time called 'What's My Line?' And there was also a UK version of the game show back then too. Back in the 60s, the audience definitely recognized what TV show they were parodying 😊
I really do always like this movie when it was released in the 80s on VCR A lot of people went out during Christmas time and bought their kids dalmatians. Sad part that most people don’t know is that donations are usually deaf or hard of hearing so they’re more difficult to train and so many dalmatian puppies were abandoned.