Cinderella (1950)

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Movie
German title Cinderella
Cinderella
Original title Cinderella
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1950
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Clyde Geronimi
Wilfred Jackson
Hamilton Luske
script Ken Anderson
Homer Brightman
Winston Hibler
Bill Peet
Erdman Penner
Harry Reeves
Joe Rinaldi
Ted Sears
production Walt Disney
music Paul J. Smith
Oliver Wallace
Songs:
Mack David
Al Hoffman
Jerry Livingston
Orchestration:
Joseph S. Dubin
cut Donald Halliday
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Cinderella 2 - dreams come true

Cinderella (alternative title: Cinderella ) is the twelfth full-length cartoon from the Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1950. It refers to the fairy tale character of the same name in an adaptation by Charles Perrault . In 1951 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the categories of best song , best music and best sound editing . In the USA, the fairy tale film was released on February 15, 1950, and the German theatrical release was December 21, 1951.

action

Cinderella lives as an orphan with her stepmother and her work-shy daughters Anastasia and Drizella. Her stepmother can't come to terms with the fact that her own daughters aren't as pretty as Cinderella. They humiliate her and impose an inappropriately large amount of work on her. But there is one thing she cannot take away, dreaming. Despite her fate, she sings and dances with her friends, the animals. These include the two little mice Jaques and Karli.

One day a letter comes from the king's castle and is invited to the ball. The king is looking for a wife for his son, the prince, and every nubile girl has to appear. Cinderella also wants to go to the ball, but her stepmother tries to prevent that. She gives Cinderella so much work that she barely has the opportunity to sew a dress for the ball. But her friends, the mice and birds, are immediately there to help Cinderella. When her stepsisters finally see her in the beautiful dress, they are jealous and tear it to shreds. Cinderella is infinitely sad, but a good old fairy comes to her aid and not only conjures up a new dress for her, but also a carriage so that she can appear in time for the ball. However, the spell only lasts until midnight. Cinderella is dancing with the prince at the ball, and when the church tower clock strikes twelve, she just manages to escape, but loses one of her glass shoes.

The prince wants to see Cinderella again and even get married, so every girl in the kingdom has to try the shoe on. The prince will say yes to those who fit the shoe . Since Cinderella seems to be very happy about it and the stepmother suspects that the shoe might fit Cinderella, she locks Cinderella in until the two mice Karli and Jaques get the key and free Cinderella. She wants to try on the shoe quickly, but it breaks when the stepmother trips the prince's servant, causing him to fall to the ground with the shoe. Cinderella pulls the other shoe out of her pocket, which of course fits, and so she is allowed to go into the lock. There she marries the prince.

synchronization

The opening credits are provided in the original English with choir parts, which was initially also done in the German-speaking area. The intro, which was recorded in the German original version from 1951 by Erika Goerner, who also took on the role of Drizella, began with an introduction in the typical "Once upon a time" style.

For the re-performance in 1980 under the title "Cinderella" there was a new introduction, for which Joachim Pukass was engaged. This new intro primarily explains that the English name of " Cinderella " is " Cinderella " and that is why she is called that in the film. The choir songs in the opening credits and at the end of the film have also been removed. The remaining votes were retained. Cinderella is thus the oldest Disney film, the first German dubbing of which is (partially) still officially released today.

When the film was shown for the last time under the title "Cinderella" in 1987, the original intro with Erika Goerner and the choir singing in the opening credits could be heard again. As in 1980, the singing at the end remained purely orchestral.

All later publications, including the last theatrical release in 1991 and all publications on home media, reverted to the 1980 version.

The synchronization took place at the synchronization department of the RKO in Berlin. Christine Lembach wrote the dialogue book, Reinhard W. Noack directed the dialogue.

role Original speaker Voice actor
Cinderella Ilene Woods Eva-Ingeborg Scholz
Stepmother Eleanor Audley Friedel Schuster
Drizella Rhoda Williams Erika Görner
Anastasia Lucille Bliss Alexa von Porembsky
king Luis van Rooten Eduard Wandrey
Grand duke Karl Meixner
prince William Edward Phipps Ottokar Runze
Prince (vocals) Mike Douglas
Good fairy Verna Felton Anneliese Würtz
Jaques James MacDonald Walter Bluhm
Karli Erwin Biegel
Bruno the dog James MacDonald
Lucifer the cat June Foray

background

Cinderella had a long studio history; some scripts even came from the 1930s. It wasn't until 1948 that the final decision was taken to shoot Cinderella . This was a time when you didn't know if the studio would survive financially. The last great success, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), was more than ten years ago. The films in between, such as Pinocchio and Fantasia , had largely resulted in losses. After Bambi (1942), Disney Studios did not produce any further full-length films for the time being. Instead, practice films for the state and South American films were devoted to ( Three Caballeros in Samba Fever ( Saludos Amigos ), Three Caballeros ). Short cartoons were then put together to form full-length programs ( make mine music , music, dance and rhythm ). The films brought back the cost, but they didn't become big hits like the previous feature films. Finally, Walt Disney decided to film a story with a " girl in need ". The reason why Cinderella was chosen is probably due to the fact that Disney had already drawn a cartoon about the story in 1922.

Cinderella is best known for the color and concept design by Mary Blair and the participation of Disney's " Nine Old Men " (" Nine Old Men "). This crew included Eric Larson and Marc Davis , who designed and developed the main character, Frank Thomas (Evil Stepmother), Ollie Johnston (Stepsisters), Wolfgang Reitherman (Duke and King), Milt Kahl (Prince, Good Fairy) and Ward Kimball (mice and cat). These draftsmen were already there for Snow White and had contributed a lot to the specific “Disney style” over the years. In total, the production required a million drawings, in which 300 draughtsmen were involved. The chemists at Disney Laboratory spent several months balancing the colors to make the characters and scenes as realistic as possible. For financial reasons, you couldn't spend too much money on the production of the film. The whole story was therefore filmed with real actors, these recordings were then enlarged to the size of drawing paper, the drawing paper was placed over it and then painted on.

The film cost about $ 2.9 million. Production, including filming, took about two years. The animation finally lasted about half a year.

Film music

Walt Disney commissioned the music publisher " Tin Pan Alley ", which had its headquarters in New York City , for the music in Cinderella . The composers and lyricists were Mack David , Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston . They composed, among other things, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (“I saw him in a dream”), Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo and So This Is Love (“That's happiness”). The music in Cinderella was a turning point in that the songs for previous feature films were never written for the potential market, but exclusively for the film. Nevertheless, for example, Whistle While You Work ("Who whistles at work") from Snow White or When You Wish upon a Star ("When a Star") from Pinocchio hits and therefore also on records. The latter even received an Academy Award . For Cinderella , the Walt Disney Company founded its own music publisher ( Walt Disney Music Company ), as they discovered hit potential in all songs and wanted to market them themselves. The album turned out to be a bestseller (750,000 copies sold), containing four songs sung: "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "The Cinderella Work Song", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) / So." This Is Love "and" A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes ". The film was even nominated for an Oscar in the categories of “Best Song” and “Best Film Music”.

Songs

  • “Cinderella” - unknown choir; later cut out
  • "I saw him in a dream" - Cinderella ( Eva-Ingeborg Scholz )
  • "Sing, sing, nightingale" - Drizella, Cinderella ( Erika Görner , Eva-Ingeborg Scholz)
  • "The Work Song" - The Mice ( Walter Bluhm , Erwin Biegel and others)
  • " Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo " - The good fairy ( Anneliese Würtz and choir)
  • "That is happiness" - Cinderella, The Prince (Eva-Ingeborg Scholz, Ottokar Runze)
  • "This is happiness (recapitulation)" - Cinderella
  • "I saw him in a dream (recapitulation)" - unknown choir, later cut out

particularities

  • Walt Disney tries to orient himself very closely to the popular Snow White with the character of Cinderella , probably also due to the great success of this film.
  • With the prince, Cinderella and her stepmother, there are only three characters that are very human-like. The rest of the characters are very exaggerated and shown in the style of traditional cartoons. It was also very important that Cinderella is not only beautiful, but also human , so that she becomes a key figure of identification.
  • The film was shown for the first time on German free TV on April 18, 2014 ( Good Friday ), after almost 63 years, on RTL .

Awards

Reviews

“ A fairy tale of music, color and poets' imagination. Especially worth seeing for younger girls. "

- 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958.

Sequels

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Cinderella dubbing
  2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Cinderella. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Handbook V of the Catholic Film Critics, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 61
  4. ↑ in German
Films from Walt Disney Animation Studios
1937-1949

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (1937)  • Pinocchio  (1940)  • Fantasia  (1940)  • Dumbo  (1941)  • Bambi  (1942)  • Saludos Amigos  (1943)  • Three Caballeros  (1944)  • Make Mine Music  (1946)  • Happy, Free, fun while doing it  (1947)  • Music, dance and rhythm  (1948)  • The adventures of Ichabod and Taddäus Toad  (1949)

1950-1999

Cinderella  (1950)  • Alice in Wonderland  (1951)  • Peter Pan  (1953)  • Lady and the Tramp  (1955)  • Sleeping Beauty  (1959)  • 101 Dalmatians  (1961)  • The Witch and the Wizard  (1963)  • The Jungle Book  (1967)  • Aristocats  (1970)  • Robin Hood  (1973)  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh  (1977)  • Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police  (1977)  • Cap and Capper  (1981)  • Taran and the Cauldron  (1985)  • Basil, the Great Mouse Detective  (1986)  • Oliver & Co.  (1988)  • Arielle, the Mermaid  (1989)  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land  (1990)  • Beauty and the Beast  (1991)  • Aladdin  (1992)  • The Lion King  ( 1994)  • Pocahontas  (1995)  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame  (1996)  • Hercules  (1997)  • Mulan  (1998)  • Tarzan  (1999)  • Fantasia 2000  (1999)

from 2000

Dinosaurs  (2000)  • A Kingdom for a Lama  (2000)  • Atlantis - The Secret of the Lost City  (2001)  • Lilo & Stitch  (2002)  • The Treasure Planet  (2002)  • Brothers Bear  (2003)  • The Cows Are Going  (2004)  • Heaven and Chicken  (2005)  • Meet the Robinsons  (2007)  • Bolt - A Dog for All Cases  (2008)  • Kiss the Frog  (2009)  • Rapunzel - New Spoiled  (2010)  • Winnie the Pooh  (2011)  • Ralph Enough  ( 2012)  • The Frozen - Totally Unabashed  (2013)  • Baymax - Giant Robowabohu  (2014)  • Zoomania  (2016)  • Vaiana  (2016)  • Chaos in the Net  (2018)  • The Frozen II  (2019)

Future

Raya and the Last Dragon  (2021)