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This is on a reel of Art Babbitt and John Hubley commercials that made the rounds some ten years ago - done in the mid 50s...
Børge Ring - mentor and playmate.
Working with Børge was fun, hard, boring, exciting, unusual, normal, and most of all educational. Over a year before leaving high school, in March 1978 I found out he lived in my neighborhood from a tv program about him and his wife Joanika. So I found him in the phone book (remember those?) and called him up. While studying art history, for a year I was his "pupil" doing animation tests, dropping by and having him correct them. Then, fed up with my art history professors, I moved my animation desk with my Neilson-Hordell disc into his Blaricum attic! (I am pointing at it in this photo taken last year:) Here, for almost four years, from March 1980 to November 1983 I smelled of his Douwe Egberts Red Amphora pipe tobacco and every day incl. weekends, Christmas and New Year from 10 to 6 we worked to the sound of BBC World Service if there were no jazz songs he had to listen to over and over again for an upcoming gig. I started doing simple non-production tests from his animation...
No question that Hubley designed this, but is Babbitt the animator? Whoever animated it, it's got great facial expressions and timing.
ReplyDeleteBabbitt definitely animated this and the SnowDrift spot as well. Only he would have done Marsha's turn away from the table as gracefully as that. Both comercials look like an extension of Rooty Toot Toot.
ReplyDeleteTo give a better sense of the date, this spot was produced at Hubley's Storyboard in LA either in 1954 or very early '55.
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Great - thanks, Amid!
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