Ex.6. This is an abstract about Walt Disney, the world-famous cartoon producer. PARAPHRASE the underlined parts to use the Gerund

Example: After 1926, Walt Disney never drew a cartoon character.

à After 1926, Walt Disney stopped drawing cartooncharacters.

After 1926, Walt Disney never drew a cartoon character. Outstanding draftsmen working for him could design and animate the cartoons much better than he ever had, so he concentrated on his imagination, original ideas while he created amusing characters and his ability to carry the project through. A first class editor, he had a talent – he could reject needless details from a cartoon, keeping just enough to make it rich and entertaining. He was never satisfied when he had to repeat a successful formula – new techniques beckoned him. Nothing would give him pause when he felt that he wanted to experiment with something new – sound, then color and eventually with amusement parks and cities of the future.

Pleased with the overwhelming popularity of his Mouse, in the early thirties Disney began to worry that he was trapped in the Mickey series. After he introduced new characters to bring some variety in the cartoons, Disney began to use color. The first color cartoon, Flowers and Trees, brought Disney the first of his twenty-one Academy Awards (the record number of awards received by one person). From then on the production was made in costly Technicolor, except Mickey, who remained black and white until 1935. While the team was rolling out one splendid short after another like a well-oiled machine, Disney was pondering a long-cherished idea – how to make a full-length animated movie. It had never been done! For this bold project, known as “Disney’s Folly”, large backgrounds were to be given three-dimensional qualities and human characters should not be drawn as caricatures. After Snow White premiered on December 21, 1937 it went on to an international career that grossed $8 million on its first run. Walter Disney had concluded that the only thing that could be better than one long feature film was three new ones. Three teams were put to work on Pinocchio, Bambi and Fantasia.