Appeal No. 96-1766
Application 08/218,822
According to claim 1, a living actor is enveloped, except
for small openings to enable the actor to see and breathe, in
a body suit dyed in a specific blue color excluded from a
special-effects, blue-screen type, matte cinemaphotography
system used to photograph the body-suit covered actor,
"thereby rendering the covered actor invisible to the camera."
What is visible to the camera, instead, is "painting on the
surfaces of the body suit in colors other than the specific
color a drawing of said cartoon character whose appearance is
that of the cartoon character and is unrelated to the
appearance of the actor."
With regard to the above-noted features of claim 1, the
specification explains on page 9, lines 20, to page 10, line
2:
It is important to bear in mind that in this
technique, the actor is not dressed and made up to
resemble a cartoon character for there is a highly
perceptible difference between a drawing of a
cartoon character and [an] individual made up to
resemble a cartoon character. Thus in the movie
"Popeye," the actor Robin Williams who clenches a
corncob pipe in his teeth was made up to resemble
the Popeye of the classic Popeye animated films.
But Popeye, the actor, could never be confused with
Popeye, the cartoon character, for a cartoon
character drawing is an abstraction of an animal-
like or humanoid figure.
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