Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (III) - Seq. 5 (Interim Orchestra)
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Deems Taylor's introduction to the Nutcracker Suite...
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 noticed that the film I have on my iPod actually only shows the only Deems Taylor footage talking about "the Nutcracker Suite" in scene 1-PSC 6*2 that it is the only footage I have, and the rest of the footage must have been removed.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I think when RKO Radio Pictures started to release the film theatrically, they originally removed all the Deems Taylor footage and the "Toccata and Fugue" segment. Probably, still today there is still footage of Deems Taylor that hasn't been discovered or restored.!
So you're going in order of apperance.
ReplyDeleteWas it really the case in 1940 that "The Nutcracker" was rarely performed and "La Giaconda" was really popular? Or did the storymen and/or Deems Taylor just Not Do The Research?
ReplyDeleteOh Hans, is there a Claire de Lune draft? Because I believe that Walt cut the film off at the last minute, and I was wondering if you have a draft for it?
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