シャドーイング練習: Why cartoon characters wear gloves - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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This is the VHS for an extremely goofy movie.
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It's a follow -up to the cult classic A Goofy Movie, and it's one of my favorite animated films.
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Now, there's a moment in this movie where Bobby Zemiruski, Max's stoner friend, you know, the one that chugs cheese whiz,
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he says, Do you ever wonder why we're always, like, wearing gloves?
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That's a damn good question, Bobby.
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Let's figure this out.
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Does the question, why do animated characters wear gloves, come up a lot for you?
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The question rarely comes up, but when it does, there are a number of answers to it.
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That's John Canemaker.
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He's an animation historian and professor at NYU.
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The most basic theory is that gloves save time.
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Animation of any kind, even with computers, is a very work -intensive or labor -intensive process.
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Pardon me.
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I've always wondered how they were made.
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At the dawn of animation, everything was hand -drawn over and over and over again, and certain techniques to make the process more efficient shaped the style of the cartoons.
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Felix the Cat, for example, was a very boxy -looking character.
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As Felix was becoming more popular, the animator Bill Nolan decided to remove his snout and make him more circular overall.
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And that design, what they call the rubber hose and circle design,
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very spaghetti -like arms of the characters proceeded to the design of Mickey Mouse as well." This rubber hose
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and circle aesthetic allowed animators to quickly draw arms, legs, and hands without spending too much time developing realistic details of the character's body,
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like elbows and knees.
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A round edge was much faster to draw than an angle, and that certainly applied to hands with all those little fingers and knuckles.
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But hands posed another problem for animators in the age of fuzzy black and white film.
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Characters were in black and white films difficult to see against their black bodies.
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Take a look at Mickey Mouse.
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In 1927's Plain Crazy, he had black hands and feet just like Felix.
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He gained shoes in 1928's Steamboat Willie.
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And in 1929, he's wearing gloves in the Opry House.
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The rubber hose style of animation is in full effect here.
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Every character is exaggerated, round, and simple.
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And like many of the glove -wearing cartoon characters of his time, Mickey Mouse is a non -human doing very human things.
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In his 1968 biography, The Disney Version, Walt Disney addresses this very issue.
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He says, Because we didn't want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human.
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So we gave him gloves.
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So in addition to saving time and providing color contrast, gloves bring non -human things to life, making their grand gestures stand out.
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These 1935 tea kettles from Van Buren Studios have them.
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This movie camera does too.
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When Pinocchio is a puppet, he wears gloves.
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But when he becomes a boy, they disappear.
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They're no longer needed.
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But there's another, less practical influence behind cartoon characters' white gloves.
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The Opry House is a film about Mickey putting on a big vaudeville show.
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That film and many of the animations
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that predated it were inextricably linked to vaudeville performance and the blackface minstrel shows of the time.
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In fact, early animators often performed on vaudeville stages.
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Nicholas Salmon writes in Birth of an Industry that early animated characters like Felix Alexa Cat,
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Bembo, Bosco, and Mickey Mouse weren't just like minstrels, they were minstrels.
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Both the cartoons and the stage characters were portrayed as mischievous and rebellious, yet good -natured.
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They wore loose clothes, had painted faces, and they wore white gloves.
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In the 1930s, vaudeville and blackface minstrelsy declined.
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White gloves were no longer associated with vaudeville to a new generation of viewers.
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Instead, they were just part of the cartoon style people came to expect.
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There's also in the band concert, you know that film?
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It's from 1935.
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One of the characters is a cow character called Clarabel Cow, and she plays the flute, and her glove gets stuck in the flute.
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So really strange without the glove on it.
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Sixty years later, Goofy takes off his gloves before getting in a pool, and it's frankly really disturbing.
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Now, what's really bothering me is why Daffy Duck and many other animated birds don't wear gloves.
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We might never know.
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Look, let's not split hairs.
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Why do you even wear gloves?
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Because I've always worn them.
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It's who I am.
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Why do you wear that thing around your neck?
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Touché, Bugs Bunny.
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Touché.
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