Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1938 — Page 17
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Of One Syllable Just What Makes Mickey Mouse Move on the Screen.
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 25.—After they've finally decided to put a Disney animated cartoon idea into production, the thing sort of flies apart like a bomb and goes to all parts of the studio. . : First to the music and voice departments, which immediately start writing the music and re- _ cording the dialog of the speaking characters. That's ~~ an &dd thing, too. The whole movie is done in sound He first, end- then the artists have to hn draw the pictures to fit the music and dialog. : Next to leap on the picture is the layout department. The head layout: man takes the script and lays out the whole picture into se--quences and scenes, each with its background. A Silly Symphony may have thousands of movements in it, but there are only 15 or 20 locales, or backgrounds—such ‘as a forest, or the inside’ of a house, or a golf Mr. Pyle course.” I had always supposed that : an artist who drew the, say 150 pictures it takes to make Mickey Mouse walk a few feet in the forest and look up a tree, had to draw the whole forest into every picture, : But that isn’t so. The forest is drawn by one ‘man, and only one- forest drawing is needed. When. it comes to the final photographing, they just superimpose the scores of drawings of Mickey in action, one at a time, on top of that one forest scene, Well, to go on. Last, but certainly not least, the director gets started. He is in charge of the 250 artists who actually make the Disney characters move around, I was surprised to find they had directors for animated cartoons. What can a director do; I thought? He can’t order a cartoon-around. No, but- he -ean sure order the artist who is drawing the cartoon, His Job is just as responsible ds that of a director of flesh-and-blood actors. There are seven directors at the Disney studios. Sih ed
15,000 Pictures Used
Here let us pause a moment to warn you that’ we're at last approaching that frightening job of trying to make you. understand what makes the cartoon: characters move on the screen. We're just about to the department where they do it. So here’s how: You gall remember the children’s “flip books,” where you take your thumb and flip the whole book through in a couple of seconds, and you can see the characters nove as you go along, because on -each: page they're drawn in a slightly different position. Animated cartoons are nothing more than that. Just a iot of pictures, with each succeeding’ one a * little further along in the action than the preceding one. And when you run them through fast enough, as in a movie film, the tiny lapses between movements can’t be. caught by the eye, and the whole thing appears as continuous motion. : It takes about 15,000 pictures to make a Mickey Mouse short,” which runs only seven or eight: minutes. From one drawing to the next the artists can move their characters anywhere from a 64th of an inch up to an inch and a half, depending on the type of action. This scale is on their drawing paper, which is a couple of inches longer and wider than regular
typewriter paper. . : My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady Entertains ‘With Tea For Christeners of ‘Naval Ships.
ASHINGTON, Thursday.—We had two teas yestérday afternoon. The first one was for the Society of Sponsors, who are the christeners of naval ships and come together for a meeting once a year. last year I went to their luncheon, but this year, | having another engagement at the luncheon hour, I invited them to have tea with me. I was much interested to see my cosponsors from many different
states. : At 5 o'clock we had a larger tea and to this my
little granddaughter, Chandler, came as @& hostess.
with me, for she had no playmates and was a. bit lonely. I told her she could help the butlers see that, the guests were fed, if she was very careful not-to drop a plate! Before long, however, I found her next to me shaking hands with our guests. A little later she was piloting me toward the elevator as fast as she could, with the idea of getting more attention for herself and less for the tea guests! Our invalids are improving today. Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt arrived last night, which was a great pleasure and comfort for her children, and a pleasure and relief to me. :
Enjoys Evening of Music
I have seldom had as delightful an evening of music as we had last night. Mr. Rene Leroy played the flute and Mr. Leveque, a French pianist, accompanied him and played a number of additional selections for us. This is Mr. Leveque’s first trip to this country, but Mr. Leroy has come to me for a number of years ever since he brought me a letter of introduction on his initial trip to the United States. The President came in late yesterday evening and the first person who met him this morning marvelled how rested he looked after five days in the country. There is nothing so beneficial as a return to the surroundings of your youth.
New Books Today
Public Library Presents— 4 ¥ MICE AND MEN (Covici). The dramatized *X¥- version of the much discussed novel of the same “title, made by the author himself, John Steinbeck. . The play, which tells a rather pathetic story of two . drifting ranch hand who have a longing for a home ' and garden and rabbits and pigs and chickens, has “peen running in New York this winter. ' ... EALTENBORN EDITS THE NEWS (Modern age). The well known radio news commentator, H. V. ! Kaltenborn, who has traveled widely as newspaper ‘writer and radio broadcaster, here presents his conclusions concerning both foreign and domestic political situations. HOW TO WRITE FOR A LIVING (Reynal), by Trentwell Mason White. A volume intended, says the author, to teach, not the art of creative writing, but its mechanics. Included are contributions from well-known authors on the writing of juveniles, the preparation of radio scripts, the making of movie scenarios, and various other special fields of writing. THE GARDEN IN COLOR (Macmillan). The riotous display of blooms in this delectable volume fairly bursts upon the eyes. To the exquisite plates Louise Beebe Wilder adds abundant garden lore, including descriptions of the plants pictured, growing instructions, soil and location requirements. Altogether, a book which will drive the February-fettered gardener almost mad with anticipation. ;
X 2 = 8 : 'S SINCLAIR LEWIS has not given us in : ¥ _ his new book a novel that will rank with “Main Street” and “Babbitt,” but PRODIGAL PARENTS
‘" (Doubleday) deals in a clever way with an up-to-the.minute subject—the revolt of modern. youth
}.. against the old social order, and the revolt of par-
ents against their revolutionary offspring. 2
Frederick Cornplow, an upstate New York auto-
| mobile manufacturer, is a hard working, long suf- © fering individualist who wearies of the make-believe { communism of his children. His daughter, especially, scorns the stuffy old-fashioned capitalist system, bat wears the clothes, drives the cars, and finances Log unist . paper with money provided by that % gystem. While Cornplow and his wife are attem I 1D: ¢ from their children, Sinclair Lewis man-
-of plans for the day.
_ Seemed normal every way. Each of tHe 17 showed
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What About Sunspo
Science Seeks to Link Mankind’s Moods With Phenomena
(Third of a Series) By David Dietz -
+ Times Science Editor
FROM ‘the dizzy: heights of wild. joy . te. the gloomy depths of dark despair see-saws the manicdepressive. Medical men have given this. type of insane individual a hyphenated name because of the violent way in which he swings from one mood to another. When he is in the manic stage, he bubbles over with ‘intense activity. He makes grandiloquent plans; he is
eager to do something ev-
ery moment. Then comes the depressive stage. He is enshrouded in melancholy, weeps, sits still for hours without moving, refuses to eat. But in time this mood passes and he is once more in the manic stage. Many medical men believe that the manic-depressive is merely the unfortunate extreme example of tendencies which exist in everyone. For everyone has his moods. One morning finds you full of a sense of well-being. You whistle as you dress. Your appetite is ravenous for breakfast. You are eager to get to your office and full Another morning finds you downcast and
gloomy. Breakfast is a bore. You hate the thought of the office.
: 2 ” 2 HE answer to all this is not merely the time at which you got to. bed. the. night before. Studies by psychologists have shown that many people have moods that go in cycles. For
a period of days or weeks they are in a happy mood. Then for an
equal period they are in a gloomy
mood. : Dr. Rexford B. Hersey of the University of Pennsylvania made a year’s study of the emotional ups and downs of the workers in a large industrial plant; He studied 17 men and women who individuals in
these emotional cycles. In the happy side of the cycle they did their work easily ‘and well, and without complaining.
worked with greater difficulty and less interest.
In the: - gloomy side of the cycle, they
Now those scientists who seek
to find sonmie connection between sunspots and human activities suggest that there is a longer and less noticeable cycle which affects all humanity. All humanity, they believe, is in a sense manic-de-pressive in a cycle that keeps tab with sunspots.
“When sunspots are on the in--.crease, they believe, .there is a ‘general increase in human ac-
ivity. People have more energy, are more active, and make more
;plans. Consequently we get a
business expansion. . More contracts are let, more factories built, more material bought. As a result the stock market goes up.
E have already, shown—in the first article of this series—that market peaks for the last 75 years have come reasonably soon after sunspot maxima and that since 1925 the curve of sunspot activity has corresponded exceedingly’ closely with the DowJones stock averages, the business index prepared by the Analyst, the records of building contracts and the volume of automobile sales. Buf ali humanity’s increased energy. does not go into the construction side of business. Some of ‘it finds an outlet in agitation. And so we find an inerease in fric-
* tion between capital:and labor, in
strikes and in general unrest. We also. find an increase in international jealousies and in wars or the threats of war. If has often been noted that industrial unrest is greatest in boom times. The usual explanation for
. At the. center. is a photograph of the sun taken during an eclipse, revealing the great streamers of fiery material which comprise the solar corona. These streamers change their shape with the sunspot cycle,
that there is little point to calling strikes when the market is falling. The time to seek higher wages is when industry can afford to pay them. This, of course, is logical. But exponents of the sunspot
theory would point to the fact.
that the increased nervous activ=ity of periods of increased. sunspots may explain both the increased activity of the businessman and the worker.
: » 8 8% ANY observers have commented upon the fact that there was far less violence during the depression than some au-
thorities anticipated. Perhaps the
lowered vitality which these theorists believe accompanies a sunspot minimum . accounts for the absence of violent tendencies. The skeptic, however, will insist on knowing how it is possible for sunspots to affect a human being. Several suggesvions, none of them preved by any means, have been offered. . : FAN It is a known fact that as sunspots increase the amount of
this is that union leaders realize
ultra-violet light radiated by the
Side Glances—By Clark
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sun increases. The first suggestion, therefore is, that human beings respond. directly to the increase in ultra-violet radiation. A second suggestion is that the increase in ultra-violet affects the crops. = Perhaps the. supply of
Vitamin D, sometimes called the’
“sunshine vitamin,”: is’ greater in periods of sunspol maxima. It also may be that there are various grades of Vitamin D for it is now known that this vitamin is not a single substance but a complex mixture of four or more. : 2 8 = HE fluctuation in the amount of ultra-violet light received from the sun is now being studied at the Mt. Wilson Observatory with the aid of special apparatus by Dr. Edison Petit. i a thin silver film on a special telescope lens made of quartz to measure the daily fluctuations in ultra-violet from the sun. The next suggestion is that the electrical conditions in the atmosphere have something to do with human energy. As detailed here yesterday, the sun’s ultra-violet radiation creates the radio ceiling,
& [ the layer of electrified air over the earth’s surface from which radio -
waves are reflected.
Activity in sunspots is paralleled:
by changes in the radio ceiling. When sunspots flare up, radio-re-ception across the Atlantic is up-: set. As: Dr. Harlan T. Stetson tells us, a | of electric. eyes would enable us to see furious storms raging in the radio ceiling. Now the air: w>. breathe is. al‘ways electrified to some extent. The number of electrified ‘parti‘cles in the air constitute what
scientists call the: “ion count | I Recent experiments in Germany | have sought to find some connec-' |: tion ‘between the ion count: and: |
huma lan activity. .
i
Prox DESSAUER of Frankfort > has
; “tried. experiments fo see whether individuals acted differ-
ently - to." positive and negative
dons. Such experiments have also been tried by Prof. Yaglon of the “Harvard School of Public Health.. The German professor said his experiments indicated negative fons increased people’s sense of
. well-being while. positive ions had
the opposite effect. Medical men, however, ‘have: been rather reluc-
tant to accept ‘this as ‘an estab-
{ir SIDER wf eR “We do know, however, that people’s moods are influenced by many things, ‘for example, the ‘state of their digestion. Therefore any influence which would
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Depressive
indicating, that the cycle is of the utmost importance in the life of the sun. Some authorities have suggested that all mankind swings from a manic to a depressive stage as sunspots change.
shorter cycles in ‘moods. That is, during the upswing. of - sunspots, the happy:and active mood might be a little stronger than the depressed moods. During the downswing of sunspots just the opposite would be true. Students of history are at a loss to explain the differences between various periods. It is not always that one period has leaders and another period lacks thern. There
are periods in which the leaders
get no attention. Often there are periods which seem frivolous: or perverse. Serious leadership finds an outlet. The demagog .of the
rabble-rouser has things his own
way. on : s 8 =» ILL -it. be possible to explain some of these things by finding world-wide changes in the great mass of humanity, changes which can be traced
‘ ‘back to changes in the sun? At the present moment no one can
answer that: question. Many scientists dislike speculations about sunspots. They prefer to stick’ to known scientific
facts and stop there. But scien- .
tific advancement . requires that there be speculation. First we must make some. speculation. Then we must test it to see whether it is true or false. That is why many authorities today are urging more detailed studies of solar activity. ? One important field of investigation is that of the ductless glands. Much of human behavior is the result of the functioning of such glands as the pituitary or
the thyroid. Medical ment do: not -
know the whole story concerning any of these glands. * Changes in the ultra-violet radiation, in the electrification of the air, in the amount and grade
of Vitamin D in foodstuffs, might, be responsible for changes in the -
ductless glands. ‘No one knows
that this is so, but on the other. hand, no one has proved con-
clusively that it is not so. This series will be concluded with some other evidence of
cycles which seem to be connected
with sunspots.
NEXT-~Sunspots, other cycles. i
floods _ and | DAR JANE JORDAN a
Jasper—By F rank Owen
73 home fussing. It would not
‘An Enterprising Physician “Gives - A Complete Summary of S eamboat { Activity Up and Down White River.
J CAN'T do better than turn today’s column
over to Dr. Fletcher Hodges who knows a lot more about navigation on White River than I do. Slouch that I was, I stopped the navigation with the coming of the Robert
Hanna in 1831. Well, it seems that. wasn’t
the end by any means. Listen: . - . . . “The steamer Governor Morton, 150 tons, built at Indianapolis in 1865,” says Dr. Hodges, “made trips to’ that ‘port’ on White River for ahh over a year after that date. I have heard my grandfather, Stoughton
.A." Fletcher, mention this boat,
and no doubt his father, Calvin
“Fletcher, an early settler. of Indi-
anapolis, who was living at that
| time, may have seen her.”
Indeed, Dr. Hodges has his case so well in hand that he invites me to have a look at a photograph of , * the old boat. It's on page 931 of Mr. Scherrer Jacob P. Dunn’s “Indiana and Indianians,” and shows the Governor Morton docked at the foot of the old National Road bridge on W. Washe ington St.
It turns out, too, that Dr. Hodges’ nautical knowle
- edge embraces, not only the arrival of steamers in
Indianapolis, but also includes the coming and going of other craft propelled by oars. To hear him tell it, it sounds like a timetable. “In 1821,” says the Doctor, “a keel boat, manned by Matthias Nowland and Elisha Herndon, and loaded with flour and whisky, arrived in Indianapolis; in 1822, the Eagle, 18 tons burden, from Kanawha, with salt and whisky, The same year brought the Boxer, 35 tons, from Zanesville; and also in 1822, Luke Walpole’s two keel boats with his family, their furniture, and some merchandise. After the Civil War,” says Dr. Hodges, “one of my relatives living at Waverly shipped some hogs to New Orleans during high water, and probably sold the flat boat for: lumber on its arrival.” Outside of what he gleaned from his immediate family, Dr, Hodges says he got most of his information straight from Jacob Dunn. :
Shares Dunn’s Enthusiasm
“Dunn,” says Dr. Hodges, “believed that White River could be made navigable for steamers, and that the sand and gravel removed by .dredging could readily be sold at a profit. He says that in 1826, the Indiana Legislature passed a law for making a channel as far as Sample’s Mills, and - directed County Commissioners to call upon men to work the stream as they had done on the roads.” ;
Dr. Hodges, it appears, shares Mr. Dunn’s enthu-
siasm for turning White River into something more
than a picturesque stream. “Perhaps in the ‘distant future,” says the Doctor, “our streams will be used for light draft vessels for slow freight as has been done in Europe. The engineers may be able to insure a proper stage for such craft at all seasons, by turning water from the Great Lakes into our rivers.” Shows what one physician does with his time oute side of businéss hours. : ed hing
Jane Jordah—
~ Married Couple Must Adjust Solvéh
To Other Persons, Wife Is Advised.
D== JANE JORDAN--T'have been married 13 years and have a boy 12 years old. My husband met another woman four years ago and she has just taken him. - He still stays with me and the boy, but spends most of his time with her. He has left the State and taken us with him twice to’ our folks, but she writes him that she can't live without him. Both times he came back and brought us back with him. She has been married and has children. He says he never would marry her even if he was free, as she is what they call tough. He says he wishes she would hate him. I don’t think he can get rid of her. Tt
“seems he wants us both as he doesn’t want me to get
a divorce. There is a man who wants to go with me, but I love my husband and am afraid. Please tell me what to do. I can’t stand this much longer. : WORRIED WIFE.
Answer—You aren't strong enough to work and must depend upon your husband who wants to take care of you and your son. You've tried moving away and it has not worked. There is no rearrangement at
- present which I can see to make your life any better.
If you make any move at all it should be for the better. To go with another man whom you do not want would be a move for the worse, I think. It would be upsetting to your son, would endanger your economic security and yield you no satisfaction whate ever. I don’t see what you can do but mark time. To mark time in an unhappy situation when every nerve calls for action is a severe test of one’s courage, yet again and again we come upon stretches in life where there is nothing else to do. It has been
said that the ability to mark time under fire is the
greatest test of the morale of an army. - I should think that after four years you could hope that the worst was over, for affairs conducted without love and respect generally have less longevity than those in which the couple wish to marry. In spite of your misery you've been fortunate that your husband did not desert you or even wish to. Hold on a little
longer. It is the only thing to do. WT RR RDAL m a young woman of 17 who bas been married only thiee months. My
our share of running around. ‘I want te settle down
and get a home and live as married people should,
| husband and I both are very happy and have had
1]: but just as we get ready to do so, someone comes and
asks us to go dancing. Every time we go we ‘come be right for either of
us to go to dances alene. I: hate to refuse to go
| because he likes to dance so well and so do I. But :I can’ stand quarreling about it. What
dt should. we
.| do? ‘Stop going altogether, or go and perhaps ruin
| MRS. W.D. * . Answer—Tt isn’t clear to me what you fuss about
| unless you're both so jealous you can’t:bear to see
each ‘other dance with somebody else. This is an
3 | extremely childish attitude which you must both oute grow if you expect any happiness in marriage.
$1 | Marriage doesn’t mean that you can ‘build a fence
E i e a
arqund your partner and have him all to yourself
-{ “every hour-of the day. There are other people in the world to whom you both must adjust. You can’t 4 take exceptions to mere pleasantries at parties. To avoid the problem by not: going to dances is not:to
solve it, for you can’t avoid encounters with others forever, . RR ; : ! oi : JANE JORDAN. ~. Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, whe will answer your guestions in this column daily.
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| Walter O'Keefe—
i | JJ OLLYWOOD, Feb. 2B—At the Santa Anita racee
track Tuesday, the gentry of southern California
p B poured more than $1,000,000 into the pari-mutuels, With Congress and business .
at a.
were glad to pay that much money t0.ste something
The long-shot horses have been paying off pretty consistently lately and W: would : probably raise more reveriue if they called them into conference Instead fs SL the little ke thie: wing :
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