Released as a sequence in Saludos Amigos, the story of Pedro the mail plane is treated as a standalone short. Directed by Ham Luske, this draft prepared 6/19/1942.
Who is "Larry", the assitant director for Pedro? The only Larry I can think of at the moment is Larry Clemmons, & I'm pretty sure it's not him. Yet, I could be wrong.
I would guess this would be Larry Lansburgh. Alberto writes:
LANSBURGH, Lawrence (Larry) - Assistant Director: DISNEY c40 (Pluto 41 [Pluto’s Playmate]) - Production Supervisor: DISNEY c43-45 (The Three Caballeros 45) - NOTE: Went on to direct live-action films and TV series for DISNEY 53-67
The Social Security Death Index database shows one Lawrence M Lansburgh born 18 May 1911 deceased 12 March 2001 in Eagle Rock, Oregon. Who knows - the dates seem to fit...
Directed by Wilfred "JAXON" Jackson, laid out by Maclaren Stewart. Assistant director Mike Holoboff, secretary Toby (Tobelmann). This FINAL draft dated 11/3/52. Animation by Marvin Woodward (Lost Boys, John, Michael), Eric Larson (Peter), Harvey Toombs (Wendy), Don Lusk (Tink), Norm Ferguson (Nana), Jack Campbell (Father), Art Stevens, Milt Kahl (Father, Mother, Wendy), Marc Davis (Mother), Hal King (John), George Rowley (anchor chain, pixie dust, sail, ship), Josh Meador (cloud-ship). And that concludes the draft for Peter Pan, the fourteenth complete feature film draft on this blog! (Ok, you smart-alecks, we still need to see the last page of the Pink Elephant sequence...) As always, I feel the need to stress that these documents were kept to keep track of the responsible person, and as such it may not reflect precisely the specific directing animators who worked on the sequences. If e.g. an inker or checker needed to find out who animated the scene because of some question
I used to wonder where precisely Walt Disney's first 2719 Hyperion Ave. studio was located, and what it looked like. Since reading about it first in the 1970s in Dave Smith's article in Michael Barrier's great Funnyworld, I spent hours looking at photos, aerial photographs, maps etc, until I found I had a pretty good impression. My aim here is to pass some of that on to you, as I have found there was an interest in this since I posted this image of the staff with their new Charlotte Clark dolls on my Facebook page: Looking through Cecil Munsey's Disneyana, it appears to me that the "funny looking" Mickey with the button eyes is actually an example of the 1930 British-made pose-able Mickey by the Dean's Rag Book company of London. First, the WHERE. Here is the front of the Gelsons parking lot, with the original plot of the studio indicated in a blueish hue. We see the very small building, the back yard that has a car shed does not even reach the current Gel
Something just occurred to me: this blog had its second anniversary four days ago, and I forgot to celebrate... What was there to celebrate, you ask? Well, I was pretty happy to be able to explain the timing to a musical beat using different kinds of original Disney bar sheets , with click track examples - and I made a little pc metronome for just that. Then there are the Who is who's, by way of animation drafts for 62 short films, four whole features ( Pinocchio , The Three Caballeros , Alice in Wonderland and One Hundred and One Dalmatians ) and parts of several others; 14 Action Analysis Classes and Technical Manuals of the 30's; photos and articles . I suggest that new visitors browse the archives! In the mean time I go look for more skeletons to drag out of the closet... Like this one. Yes, that is Les Clark with the little moustache, looking down. And I believe the older gent in the front is Earl Hurd, the legendary inventor of cels, who was at Disney's until he
I love these Animation Drafts!
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Who is "Larry", the assitant director for Pedro? The only Larry I can think of at the moment is Larry Clemmons, & I'm pretty sure it's not him. Yet, I could be wrong.
I would guess this would be Larry Lansburgh. Alberto writes:
ReplyDeleteLANSBURGH, Lawrence (Larry)
- Assistant Director: DISNEY c40 (Pluto 41 [Pluto’s Playmate])
- Production Supervisor: DISNEY c43-45 (The Three Caballeros 45)
- NOTE: Went on to direct live-action films and TV series for DISNEY 53-67
The Social Security Death Index database shows one Lawrence M Lansburgh born 18 May 1911 deceased 12 March 2001 in Eagle Rock, Oregon. Who knows - the dates seem to fit...