Animation Fun Facts for May 15, 2012

Disney artist Joe Grant born. 1702- Charles Perrault died. Charles Perrault 1628-1703 was a retired minister to French King Louis XIV, who wrote stories for children under the title Mother Goose. He created Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and Puss in Boots. 1863- Edouard Manet first displayed his Dejeuner sur l’Herbe at the Salon des Refuses in Paris. The painting is of two modern clothed men having a picnic with two nude women by a river bank. The women aren’t mythical goddesses or muses but just naked ladies. This shocked Paris society and Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugene called it “Immodest and obscene”. It’s revolutionary simple subject matter heralded the rise of Impressionism. 1928- Walt Disney held a test premiere of his cartoon short Plane Crazy. It was the first with Mickey & Minnie Mouse, and the first cartoon to feature a camera move.