February 15, 2006

Walt Who?

Animation director Michael Sporn points out a depressing moment he saw on JEOPARDY's "Teen Tournament" a couple nights ago. There's apparently more than a bit of truth to all those research studies that claim kids today have no idea who Walt Disney was. And these teens on JEOPARDY are supposedly the smart ones.

UPDATE: Tim Nickel writes:

You can view the game with that clue HERE. The clue itself is in the second round under the category "NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME" and the clue reads "'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was the first full length animated film to use this inductee's multiplane camera". Which makes it sound like the answer should be Ub Iwerks, not Disney. So you can see why no one got it, it was a confusing clue.

Posted by AMID at February 15, 2006 06:12 AM