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Re:Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video] by olavk on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:33AM (#16772023)
To be fair this clip is produced by the Disney studios, master storytellers at the height of their craft. The Mickey Mouse animation seems to have been produced specifically for this clip, and hand-drawn cell animation is very labor intensive, even if it seems simple. Just realize that every frame has been drawn on paper, inked on celluloid and painted by hand. In short, this clip has been very expensive to produce.

(Not that I necessarily disagree with you, just to point out this is a state of the art instruction clip with extremely high production value, not just some random youtube video.)

Re:Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video] by grkvlt on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:15AM (#16773364)
Although the voice acting is terrible - the engineers speaking about what they are doing are incredibly stilted and unnatural: "Yes Bob. I was moving it the. Wrong way. I am moving it. In the correct direction. Now. Bob. Thank you."
Re:Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video] by jadell on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:05PM (#16774297)
Probably because they're engineers and not actors. It's actually very difficult to read scripted lines in a natural sounding way, especially if it's phrased in a way you wouldn't normally speak.