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Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/12/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Animation by John Lounsbery (Giant, Donald), John Sibley (trio of Mickey, Donald, Goofy), Hugh Fraser (Giant, Mickey), Hal King (trio), Les Clark (Mickey), Hal Ambro (Mickey). No indication of effects animators...

Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/12/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Hal King animated the trio, to Jack Campbell's Harp. And then we cut to live action.

Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/12/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Animation by Bob Carlson (All), Ken Muse (Mickey), Don Towsley (All), Charles "Nick" Nichols (All), John Sibley (Goofy), Marvin Woodward (All), Harry Holt (All), Judge Whitaker (Mickey/Donald), Woolie Reitherman (Goofy) and Jack Campbell (Harp). With Ken Muse on the job, this sequence must clearly date from before the 1941 strike, as Muse left for MGM then and there did the work he is best remembered for, on the Tom and Jerry series... One of my favorite bits is Goofy with the peas and landing on the jelly - by Sibley. Classic!

Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/8/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Animation by John Sibley and Bob Carlson.

Of course, the title is a pun on the fact that it is a "Bean Bolero..." Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/8/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Basically an effects sequence, the animation is by Josh Meador, Ed Aardal, John Reed, Dan MacManus, Art Palmer, Les Clark (Mickey), Frank McSavage and G. Miller. George Howell Miller (1895-1969) is one of those "workers" that we hardly ever hear of. In 1940 he was classified as Assistant Animator. He started with Walt in the early 30s, had a stint with Harman/Ising and returned in 1938. But his start was in Kansas City at the Film Ad in the early 1920s, and I believe he may even be pictured in the famous Feb/Mar 1921 Film Ad photo with Walt (two places to the right of A.V Cauger himself)! That is the reason he is shown on this photo of the Film Ad reunion in Hollywood in 1944, reprinted in Funnyworld: Find George Miller under the red arrow! (Yes, there wer...

I said we are going to take this slowly... Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/8/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Animation by Phil Duncan, Harvey Toombs, Bob Carlson and Marvin Woodward. A sequence that enjoyed lots of exposure through the years...

Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/6/1946 by "Toby" Tobelmann. Animation by Woolie Reitherman, John McManus, Ward Kimball, Milt Neil, Bob Carlson, Harvey Toombs and Marvin Woodward, with effects by George Rowley. What I do NOT understand is the credit for Blaine Gibson on scene 19! Should this not have been credited to M.R.?

We take it slow: we go one sequence at a time. As I said yesterday, even though Bongo is first in the film, Mickey and the Beanstalk is first in the draft, so we go in draft order. This is Seq. 01.0 of Prod. 2043, which is Mickey and the Beanstalk; it does not carry the Fun and Fancy Free production number 2057 which was not attached to the whole film until the two parts were combined. Directed by Bill Roberts assisted by Mike Holoboff. Layout by Al Zinnen. This FINAL draft dated 11/6/1946 by Eloise Ann "Toby" Tobelmann, with Disney since 8/14/1935. Animation by Jack Campbell (Harp), John McManus (Birds and effects), Ted Bonnicksen, Les Clark, George Goepper (cow), John Sibley (cow and bull), Woolie Reitherman (crows), with effects by George Rowley, Dan MacManus and Josh Meador. For those of you who see the label M.R. for the first time, it means Music Room and is used for scenes that needed timing but no animation. The Music Room was room with a piano, occupied by the di...

The first seven pages of this draft are the scenes that are not part of Bongo or Mickey and the Beanstalk. They are the opening bits with Jiminy Cricket, and the animated scenes between those two main "halves" of this movie, except for the bubble over Snerd's head in the live action just before the Mickey and the Beanstalk part. Directed by Ham Luske, assisted by Jack Atwood. Layout by Ken O'Connor. This FINAL draft dated 8/6/1947 by Ruth Wright. We find Jiminy Cricket animation by Eric Larson, Rudy Larriva, Judge Whitaker, Don Lusk (of course with goldfish), Harvey Toombs, Bob Youngquist, Bill Justice, and then, between Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk, more crickets, but by Phil Duncan, Hal King and Ollie Johnston. As always, my "Standard Disclaimer" applies: "Animation drafts were never meant to be historical documents. They were meant as go-to documents, showing the responsible artist for a certain scene, who might be able to help in case t...

The inside cover of my Fun and Fancy Free draft has this index: How time flies, especially when you are busy! In less than a month, my old mentor Børge Ring will be 97. A few years ago he wrote an intro for me for the upcoming draft of Prod. 2057, Fun and Fancy Free, which comprises of Prod. 2043, Mickey and the Beanstalk and Prod. 2048, Bongo, though not in that order in the film. In his intro, Børge specifically addresses the first part of the film, Bongo. I translated his text to English as close to his original as I could, incl. punctuation, and I hope it passes muster. Here goes: BONGO A bricked-in circus artist. "Fun and Fancy Free" is generally considered a substandard Disney movie. "A rather thrown-together construction." Right. Try, just for fun, to imagine removing all of the construction except for BONGO. What do you have left?????????????????.................. You have a treasure chest filled with some of Walt's very best animation committed by some ...