Animation Anecdotes #330
“I thought to myself as I was drawing these strips, ‘This is too big for a comic strip. A comic strip really can’t carry a story like this,” says Charles Schulz.
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Animation Anecdotes #329
Someone opened the package by mistake, since the studio does not accept unsolicited material. “But Steven wanted it and you don’t say ‘no’ to Steven Spielberg”.
Animation Anecdotes #328
Osamu Tezuka briefly met Walt Disney at the 1964 New York’s World Fair. I recently stumbled across Tezuka’s own remembrance of that encounter.
Animation Anecdotes #327
“I think it’s my best animation because it was the most imaginative, and broke a lot of rules, shocked everyone here (at Disney),” said Ward Kimball.
The Firehouse Five Plus Two
Once upon a time, a group of Disney animators, writers and musicians who loved jazz and collected records were all of a sudden, the toast of the music world.
Animation Anecdotes #326
“I wasn’t recognized on the street. But if I wanted to appear famous, I could just tell people I was Wilma Flintstone,” said voice actress Jean Vander Pyl.
Animation Anecdotes #325
Why So Many Mice in Animation? “It’s a terrible thing to say, but mice are easy to draw,” says animator Bob Kurtz.
Animation Anecdotes #323
Did Miss X ever get a name? As part of the promotion for a 1944 cartoon, Walter Lantz offered a reward to name Pat Matthew’s sexy dancing girl.
Jim Korkis on Disney’s “Ben And Me” (1953)
Based on the popular book by Robert Lawson, Ben and Me tells the “true” story of an inventive churchmouse who was actually the real brains behind Ben Franklin.
June Foray 1917-2017
“I love everything I do, with all of the parts that I do, because there’s a little bit of me in all of them.”
