The Book That Inspired Walt Disney
A 19 year old Walt Disney is said to have discovered Lutz’s book Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, while he was working at the Kansas City Film Ad Company. From the book, he learned the many tricks of the trade from cycles to how to hold and repeat drawings.
Little is known about Lutz other then that he wrote numerous books on the art of drawing and animation, and made his living creating cartoons He also illustrated the“Book of Magic”, for which he drew many cartoons and invented children’s craft activities often involving optical tricks like the piece below.
Find the hidden artist in you and your family, with the incredible whimsical step by step drawing book by Edwin G. Lutz. The book is now public domain and can be found here:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
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