clean-up artists who do the detail work, and the ink and paint department who do all the colouring.

A typical 80-minute animated feature running at 24 frames per second involves the production of 1,000 preliminary sketches, 75,000 story sketches, 22,000 layout drawings, 576,000 key drawings, 1,036,800 in-between drawings, 345,600 clean-up drawings and 460,800 finished cels.

In the early days of Disney, characters tended to be more cartoonish. Later the style evolved to be more realistic.

Bambi was a breakthrough in the cute and cuddly but largely realistic representations of woodland animals.

Before Mickey was Mickey Mouse he was Oswald the Rabbit.

Before Fred and Wilma were The Flintstones, they were the Gladstones.

Figaro and Gepetto are characters in the movie `Pinnochio', a story written by Carlo Collodi.

Goofy was originally known as `The Goof'.