Based on my posting of the draft of the 1932 Mickey short Klondike Kid, Jeff Watson sent me these mosaics to post here, and we can only say Thanks, Jeff!
Hey Hans! Great site! I was surprised to see Giles ( Frenchy) de Tremaudan's name mentioned as an animator on the mosaic. A while back I was doing some research in the ARL and read some of the story notes on a bunch of unproduced shorts. In one ( a pretty lame pitch for a haunted house story , to be honest) Walt berates Frenchy for not being original enough and basically tells him to shape up or get out. Then he asks for Barks and Reeves ( "who always have fresh ideas cooking") . So my question: Was de Tremaudan both animator and storyartist? Wilbert Plijnaar
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...
Seq. 5 "Circus Parade" Directed by Norm Ferguson, assistant director Larry Lansburgh, layout Ken O'Connor. This 1st draft dated 2/24/41. Again some names missing. We do find Howard Swift, Hicks Lokey, Jerry Hathcock and Van Kaufman. One can guess as to the animator of the cute Dumbo scenes, but here (just as anywhere else) it would be nice to have a peek at the names on the scene folders.
Directed by Gerry Geronimi, laid out by Tom Codrick and Don Griffith. Assistant director Lou Debney, secretary Marie Dasnoit. This Final draft dated 9/28/52. Animated by Cliff Nordberg (Hook, Smee, Pirates), Julius Svendsen (Kids), Hal Ambro (Wendy), Bill Justice (Kids and Pirates), Ollie Johnston (Smee), Jerry Hathcock (Hook), Hugh Fraser (Hook), Bob Carlson (Hook), Don Lusk (Tink), Eric Cleworth (Hook), Woolie Reitherman (Hook), Hal King, George Rowley (Pixie Dust). A lot of different animators on Captain Hook - none of them Frank Thomas, as he was assigned the delicate character scenes. Woolie was directing Hook in the action scenes, so I suspect he was in charge of the others in this sequence. Notice the scene numbering! Some creative editing here! Also - a lot of scenes were cut out - which does not necessarily mean that they were not animated!
Thanks Jeff for the mosaic - I'm an absolute junkie for the old B&W Mickey's. This, of course, is a great one.
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Hey Hans!
ReplyDeleteGreat site!
I was surprised to see Giles ( Frenchy) de Tremaudan's name mentioned as an animator on the mosaic. A while back I was doing some research in the ARL and read some of the story notes on a bunch of unproduced shorts. In one ( a pretty lame pitch for a haunted house story , to be honest) Walt berates Frenchy for not being original enough and basically tells him to shape up or get out. Then he asks for Barks and Reeves ( "who always have fresh ideas cooking") .
So my question: Was de Tremaudan both animator and storyartist?
Wilbert Plijnaar