Pongo and Perdita are standing outside of the same church window, and both couples are wed in unison. Pongo's plan to get Roger to meet Anita at the outdoor park works, and soon they are standing before a Priest (seen through a stained glass window) inside of church. This is a fantastic original production animation cel of Pongo and Perdita from the famous double wedding ceremony scene. It is unknown which actress recorded which lines. So for the balance of the film, Perdita was voiced by Cate Bauer. Lisa Davis (who also voiced Anita) recorded about a third of the film as Perdita, but got married and moved to New York. Perdita was also animated by Ollie Johnston, and she was voiced by Lisa Davis and Cate Bauer. Pongo was animated by Ollie Johnston and voiced by Rod Taylor, who was an Australian TV an movie actor who appeared in over 50 films. All totaled, the film featured 6,469,952 spots, with Pongo having 72 spots, Perdita 68, and each puppy 32. Once they had an "anchor spot," the next spot was placed into the pattern, and so on until the fully spotted Dalmatian was achieved. To achieve the spotted Dalmatians, the Disney animators envision the spot pattern as a star constellation. According to famed animator Chuck Jones, Disney was able to complete the film for about half of what it would have cost if they had had to animate all the dogs and spots. One of the enormous benefits of the Xerox was that it was a tremendous help towards animating the spotted Dalmatian dogs. However, the limitation was that the camera was unable to deviate from a black scratchy outline, and the resulting cels lacked the fine lavish quality of hand inking. The process would preserve the spontaneity of the penciled drawings but eliminate the inking process, thus saving time and money. By 1959 he had modified a Xerox camera to transfer the drawings by the animators, directly onto animation cels. The animator Ub Iwerks had been experimenting with Xerox photography to aid in animation process. During the production of "Sleeping Beauty," Walt Disney told animator Eric Larson: "I don't think we can continue, it's too expensive." Because Disney's entire company was based on animation, he was looking for a way to continue with animation, and at the same time significantly reduce costs. The film "Sleeping Beauty," 1959 was very expensive to make and it took a huge financial loss at the box-office as a result, the Disney animation studio was considering closing.
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