Not as much to remark upon here, just a short and sweet connecting sequence with Sibley and Carlson, an effective use of second string talent. John Sibley animates another great walk in shot 14.3, and some strong posing on Goofy in shot 1.
Great!! Then I'll be able to see what Albert Hurter animated in the animated shorts before he got promoted to Inspirational Sketch Artist, unless he also did some Mickey Mouse scenes which I haven't found.
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...
Directed by Ham Luske assisted by Jim Swain. Laid out by Ken Anderson, Al Zinnen and Thor Putnam. Secretary Ruth Wright. This Final draft dated 8/5/54. Animation by Ken O'Brien, George Nicholas, Jerry Hathcock, Harvey Toombs, Hal Ambro, Hal King with the baby by George Rowley. Again, very serviceable animators, no masterpieces... I like the CinemaScope note for sc. 28: "Lady will have to be alive throughout scene."
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.
Not as much to remark upon here, just a short and sweet connecting sequence with Sibley and Carlson, an effective use of second string talent. John Sibley animates another great walk in shot 14.3, and some strong posing on Goofy in shot 1.
ReplyDeleteDo we get to see more Silly Symphony drafts in the near future?
ReplyDeleteGreat!! Then I'll be able to see what Albert Hurter animated in the animated shorts before he got promoted to Inspirational Sketch Artist, unless he also did some Mickey Mouse scenes which I haven't found.
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