Prod. 2011 - The Fabulous Mr. Toad (XIV) - Seq. 16.1 - Secret Tunnel
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This Final draft is dated 5/11/49.
Character animation by Marc Davis, effect animation by Jack Boyd.
A whole sequence of over 40 scenes by Davis!
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...
Haha, I KNEW it! All Davis!
ReplyDeleteSo this explains why Davis is credited on that one scene from the previous sequence: because it includes the same weasel guard from this sequence.
ReplyDeleteIn general the weasels seem to be consistently handled by Hugh Fraser or Marc Davis, and if the other characters appear in the same sequence, one of those two will animate the other characters as well. This will probably change in the next sequence though, which is likely to be cast the same way as most action climaxes: with seemingly no rules.