Dispatch Cover Letter
When the "Dispatch from Disney" was sent out to "the boys in the service," April 12th 1943, Walt added a cover letter like this one:
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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...
George's copy of the Dispatch signe dby numerous artists and Walt Disney was offered for sale over a decade ago by a dealer in Los Angeles.
ReplyDeleteFor a short while George Goepper was part of the group that helped Hank Porter design combat insignia.
I have been in touch with both Goepper's niece and nephew and have acquired a nice b/w photo of him at his animation desk. A combat insignia is visible on his light board.
The photo and some background info are posted on my blog.
David