Prod. 2003 - Seq. 1-7 (II) Hullo to Figaro...
Second part of Seq. 1-7, Pinocchio meets Geppetto, Figaro and Cleo. Including a couple of scenes of Geppetto by Fred Moore, who originally redesigned him...
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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...
I wonder why Karp's name is in parentheses in scene 61.4. And why DeBeeson is "J. DeBeeson" if his first name was George. (Maybe he was really hor-hay? ;-) )
ReplyDeleteI can only find one "suitable" DeBeeson in the California Death Register: George D. DeBeeson 05/31/1897 - 02/23/1965...
ReplyDeleteI was told years ago that comic legend Jack Bradbury animated Figaro in "Pinocchio". Thanks for the confirmation.
ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Max DeBeeson. My father was George DeBeeson. He did work at Disney Studios and did work on Pinocchio. The reference here mentioned was probably a typo "J" instead of "G". More on him at my website: www.DeBeeson.com . There are some animations there too.
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