Why do most Disney characters wear gloves? Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Pinocchio, and most Disney characters all have one accessory in common—gloves. Although there are many surprising facts about Disney’s most famous characters, putting gloves on animation¹ characters is actually a pretty logical move.

为什么大多数迪斯尼角色戴手套？ Mickey，Minnie，Donald Duck，Pinocchio和大多数迪士尼角色都有一个普通手套配件。 虽然关于迪士尼最着名的角色有许多令人惊讶的事实，但在动画人物上戴上手套实际上是一个非常合乎逻辑的举动。

 

The short answer as to why so many characters wear gloves is that animation is an intensive process. In the age of black and white cartoons, separating characters’ round-edge hands from their black bodies was hard. Gloves were an easy way to make their hands stand out. In fact, Walt Disney might have been the first to put gloves on his characters in The Opry House, starring Mickey Mouse. Once animation moved away from black and white, Mickey and his pals² kept their signature white gloves.

关于为什么这么多角色戴手套的简短回答是动画是一个密集的过程。 在黑白漫画的时代，将角色的圆形手与黑体分开是很难的。 手套是一种让双手脱颖而出的简单方法。 事实上，沃尔特·迪斯尼可能是第一个在米老鼠主演的奥普里之家戴上手套的人。 一旦动画从黑白中移开，米奇和他的好朋友们都会留下他们标志性的白手套。

 

Besides keeping the animation simple, Walt Disney told his biographer, Bob Thomas, that the gloves exist for another reason: to humanize the mouse. “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human,” Disney told Thomas in 1957, according to the New York Times. “So we gave him gloves. Five fingers seemed like too many on such a little figure, so we took away one. That was just one less finger to animate³.”

除了保持动画简单，沃尔特迪斯尼告诉他的传记作者鲍勃托马斯，手套的存在是出于另一个原因：人性化鼠标。 据“纽约时报”报道，迪士尼在1957年告诉托马斯，“我们不希望他有鼠标手，因为他应该更加人性化。” “所以我们给了他手套。 在这样一个小小的身影上，五个手指似乎太多了，所以我们带走了一个。 这只是动画的一个手指。“

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