There was no previous live-action film, doug*platypus - for the Bakshi movie, many scenes were filmed with real actors. Those scenes were used as the basis for the animated drawings. It was a special technique they used to attempt to make the animation look more realistic.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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