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Coloring The Kingdom

No Comments 15 February 2010

Behind the breakthrough magic of Walt Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and his other 30s and 40s classics—Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi—toiled as many as 100 young women, the inkers and painters, working from dawn to dusk on thousands of cels that brought his dreams to life. The author recaptures their white-gloved esprit de corps, and a golden age of Disney that would be disrupted by strike, World War II, and, eventually, the Xerox machine.

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Ollie Johnson died

No Comments 28 April 2008

Ollie Johnson was the last of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” of Animation.

Ollie was the only one of the Studio animators who was sensitive to character relationships and how they affected story. Back then cartoon characters seldom touched unless they hit each other. But one day Ollie said, ‘You know, the act of two people holding hands communicates in a powerful way.’ And he was right. His warmth made a difference in so many of our characters.” Memorable relationships animated by Johnson include Baloo and Mowgli (The Jungle Book) Thumper and Bambi and Lady and the Tramp.

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