Rotoscoping - Text 3
Fleischer described his invention as
a process for producing motion pictures in which a figure in action is supplied to a definite background which is also in action and so coordinated that the composite pictures will form one continuous medium for projection. … The result of such a method provides a background for each cartoon cooperating with said cartoon to produce a harmonious effect so that the figure depicted by the cartoon moves relative to the background or an element or certain elements of the backgrounds while such elements may move relative to the cartoon and to fixed objects or elements of said background.[4]
This approach was taken up again in 1936 as part of another invention, the “stereoptical process”[5] – strangely enough also called “Rotograph” by historians – which places a three-dimensional scale model in the background of the photograph, making astonishing perspectival effects possible.
