One Hundred and One Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians, originally published under the title Pongo and Perdita, is the 17th full-length animated film the Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1961. It is based on the 1956 novel, hundred and one Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, in which they memories of her late Dalmatians Pongo processed.

The film was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, who has also directed The Jungle Book directed, and Walt Disney produced for four million dollars. In Germany the film was particularly renamed to its reruns again and again. 1980, the film was shown, for example, under the name of Pongo and Perdi - adventures of a family of dogs in theaters. Since the video evaluation in 1996, the title 101 Dalmatians has prevailed.

Content

The daily walks with owner Roger Dalmatian dog Dalmatian Pongo meet the Lady Perdita and her mum Anita. Through all sorts of tricks Pongo make it that Roger and Anita fall in love and he conquered Perdita. A short time later, the dogs happy parents get 15 small puppies. For dog owners Anita and Roger first great pleasure to Anita's old " friend" Cruella De Vil shows up, the dreams of a coat of Dalmatian fur and kidnapped with the help of the two vertrottelten crooks Jasper and Horace the puppies.

Search with the support first of the dogs in the neighborhood and later of the whole country and Pongo and Perdita find their kidnapped children dogs and rescue them from the clutches of Cruellas henchmen. Meanwhile, however, are 99 become as Cruella has kidnapped her from anywhere on the original 15 puppies. Of course, the courageous dog parent can not return any of the puppies and it begins an adventurous journey back home. Pursued by Cruella and the two crooks, the dogs have to think of all sorts until they can get rid of the kidnappers. At the end of Pongo and Perdita achieve with all puppies their home, where they are received from Roger and Anita overjoyed.

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Formation

This film was the first time a new method, the Xerox photocopying, applied. Previously have had any drawing will be transferred by hand with ink on paper, which was very time consuming. With the photocopying machine is now the sketchy charm of the original drawings made directly transferred to the film, whereby the production was accelerated enormously. At the same time, the method introduced by Ub Iwerks also sparked the artistic problem of how to accommodate 101 Dalmatians on a movie screen. The Xerox process specific for the next two decades, the appearance of the Disney animated films. However, the initially quite attached innovation led to a gradual flattening of the Disney animation art that was only stopped in the 1980s.