Xerox Process
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Xerox Process - In the late 1950s, Disney technicians began experimenting with ways of adapting the Xerox copier to copy the animators' pencil drawings directly onto cels. After a few test scenes in "Sleeping Beauty," the process finally came into its own on the featurette "Goliath II" and the full-length "101 Dalmatians." Animators liked the process, because it was their drawings that got into the film, not the adaptation of their drawings by inkers. A disadvantage was that only one color outline, primarily black or gray, could be used.