What to Draw and How to Draw It (1913) via The Public Domain Review [Shared]

What to Draw and How to Draw It (1913) via The Public Domain Review

When Walt Disney was nineteen, he happened upon a book in the Kansas City Public Library: E. G. Lutz’s Animated Cartoons: How Are They Made, Their Origin, and Development (1920). While he later downplayed its significance — “it was not very profound; it was just something the guy had put together to make a buck” — the book’s “labor-saving devices and shortcuts” would greatly influence Disney’s early experiments with animation. Disney elevated Lutz’s “arcane tricks of the trade into standard industry practices”, writes Michael North, and, even a decade later, Mickey Mouse cartoons were built on a set of efficient techniques that Lutz pioneered.

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