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Inventor | Orphanage
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This cartoon used a process called the Stereoptical Camera or Setback created in 1934 as a variation on the multiplane camera. Three-dimensional sets were created so that animation cels could be placed in a realistic background allowing the characters to move about an actual miniature stage. The scenes were shot with a horizontal camera and the set was rotated on a turntable for background motion. The opening shot of the orphanage and the final shot of the umbrella tree were completed using this process.
This short was Professor Grampy's only film without Betty Boop. It is also the character's only film in color.
The orphans are all based on the same template except for the baby who tries to reach the toy soldier in his stocking and fails.
The short ends with a rendition of the U.S. Christmas Seal, which was produced to aid the American Lung Association's work with lung ailments. (When the film was released, the group's name was the National Tuberculosis Association.) First issued in 1907, the seals still adorn holiday mail in 2022. The design always contains the distinctive double barred cross trademark of the ALA.
Although things at the orphanage are bleak and spare, there is still the careful attention to background detail, which was so characteristic of Fleischer shorts.
