What’s The Story Behind the Picture?
One of the things I find most enjoyable about this site is the many illustrations that I have never seen before that accompany the articles.
One of the things I find most enjoyable about this site is the many illustrations that I have never seen before that accompany the articles.
Despite the fact that this book features no photos of Ward Kimball, no images of his art outside Disney, his antique vehicles or jazz bands – it’s essential reading.
“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.
This short showcases some wonderful animation by four of Disney’s Nine Old Men – Clark, Kimball, Johnston, and Davis – as well as Disney legend Bill Tytla.
“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.
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.
Today we present the roll-call of the honorees, which were mostly presented in alphabetic order. As before, I have prepared some thumbnail bios of each.
Reason and Emotion (1943) was a wartime short made by the Disney, depicting emotions as cartoon personas. The character of Emotion was modeled after animator Ward Kimball.
“No one will be exactly like Walt,” says Ward Kimball. “He came along with the right mind, at the right time, and he had the talent at just the right point in history. You can’t duplicate it.”
Everybody’s truckin’ with this week’s breakdown, one of my favorite Silly Symphonies! Ward Kimball animates the final montage sequence in the film – perpetuating exuberant energy.