tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40523621200737115922024-03-13T01:45:04.259-07:00TAGTOONZMark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-90631038607819644112015-08-14T17:50:00.000-07:002015-08-14T17:50:34.162-07:00Walt - c.1926<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a photo I recently acquired from the files of Movie Star News. Walt's wearing the same sweater as he does in staff and Alice production photos published several Disney books. It would be about 1926 when it was taken, possibly at Hyperion or an Alice location.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-84275299351559323732015-02-10T01:09:00.003-08:002015-02-10T01:11:35.188-08:00Walt's First Polo Game? by Garry Apgar<!--[if !mso]>
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<![endif]--><i>It's been awhile in getting this up, but, I am happy to present this guest post by author and Disney historian Garry Apgar in follow up to my December 23, 2014 post about Walt's polo team:</i><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In both instances, the teams competed against each other at the Riviera
Country Club in Santa Monica. Two screen actors, Leslie Howard (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scarlet Pimpernel</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gone With the Wind</i>) and Charles Farrell,
participated in the Cats’ trouncing of the Mickey Mouses, although
unfortunately Norm Ferguson did not say when what he called in the inscription “our
first big game” took place. In the Cats’ lineup for the May 21, 1933 match, as
reported by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Times</i>,
were two different actors, Spencer Tracy and cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown. Disney’s
lineup was the same each time: Ferguson and fellow animator Dick Lundy, polo
professional Gil Procter, and Walt himself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charles Farrell, incidentally, was later elected mayor of Palm
Springs, California, but is best remembered as Gale Storm’s father on the 1950s
TV sitcom <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Little Margie</i>. Farrell’s
teammate, Reginald “Snowy” Baker, was an Olympic-class athlete from Sydney,
Australia, who excelled in swimming, rugby, and boxing as well as polo. Baker
moved to California in the 1920s where he became equestrian director of the
Riviera C. C., won parts big and small in a handful of films, including the
Spencer Tracy vehicle of 1937, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Big City</i>,
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All fascinating stuff in its own right. But, from a purely
Disney standpoint, two questions arise: When was the 8-4 loss recorded by
Ferguson played? And more importantly, was the Mickey Mouse team’s “first big
game,” Walt’s first “official” polo match? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neither of these questions can be satisfactorily resolved yet.
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In his 1976 biography <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walt
Disney, An American Original</i>, Bob Thomas, a veteran Hollywood reporter who
interviewed his subject many times over the years, said that by the end of 1932
“Walt was beginning to make a modest venture into Hollywood society, through
polo.” He enlisted animators Jack Cutting, Ferguson, Lundy and Les Clark, the
studio’s attorney Gunther Lessing, and Bill Cottrell, a former cameraman and
member of the story department. “The eight poloists, Thomas said, “began
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A lighthearted squib in the July 1932 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Movie Magazine</i>, kindly provided by Disney
historian David Lesjak, indicates that Walt had gotten “into” polo months
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Mickey Mouse, has taken up polo. Horace Horse-Collar is not mentioned in the
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was confirmed (after a fashion) by the journalist and Hollywood publicist Harry
Mines in the August 25, 1935 issue of the <i>Riviera Chukker</i> (also
posted in December on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TagToonz</i>), who
said that “exactly three years ago Mr. Disney climbed on his first horse and
with a tense doubtful expression on his face started off over a trail.” </span></div>
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was beginning to get the hang of the rudiments of polo (basic things like,
ahem, riding a horse), and that by around November he and the men he’d
recruited were scrimmaging with other players.</span></div>
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spring of 1933 ... Walt was ready to play matches at the ... Riviera Country
Club.” The source given by Gabler as the basis for this statement was an
article in the <i>Los Angeles Herald & Express </i>from April 14,
1933. Michael Barrier tells me that the <i>Herald & Express </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">story “is consistent with” the following item
printed by </span>the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, also on April 14, 1933, a
Friday:</span></div>
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polo game featuring the University of Arizona and a Riviera team on Sunday, an
all-movie battle was scheduled yesterday. This will be between the Mickey
Mouses and Perkins’s Kats. Both games will be played on the Riviera field.</span></div>
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Brown, former Alabama football star, and Will Rogers in the lineup. The Kats
will line up with Leslie Howard, Charley Farrell, Spencer Tracy and Arthur
Perkins from No. 1 to back, respectively.</span></div>
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months and are the latest movie colony players to show their mallet wares in
public. Lewis Brown, former Arizona college player, is “alternate” for the
Mickey Mouses, and may replace any of the players upon signs of approaching
collapse.</span></div>
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playing polo. Interestingly, the next-t-last sentence here about </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the Disney brothers playing the game for “about
six months” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">corroborates Bob
Thomas’s comment that by the end of 1932 “Walt was beginning to make a modest
venture into Hollywood society, through polo.”</span></div>
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“Mickey Mouses” and the Cats (assuming it ultimately took place), or what the
score was. However, the squads on both sides — unless the rosters were changed
between Friday and game day — were clearly not the ones who participated in the
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April 16, 1933, may well have marked Walt Disney’s formal debut in a scheduled
polo match — we know of no other publicly announced event that predates it. But,
because of the discrepancy in lineups, it cannot, in all likelihood, be the “first
big game” for Walt and his mates, whatever Norm Ferguson meant by those momentous
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Lesjak for their generosity in providing vital information on this topic,
including transcriptions and pdfs of articles, and to Jim Korkis for reviewing
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Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-8865457119374549752015-01-01T01:25:00.001-08:002015-01-01T01:25:15.278-08:00Defining The Mouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mickey Mouse was born in 1928 out of economic desperation and went on to far exceeded the humble dreams of his creator Walt Disney. Mickey put Walt on the map and allowed him to fulfill his potential has a creative and entrepreneurial genius.<br />
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Mickey is more than a cartoon star, he's a cultural icon who remains the corporate identity of the studio he made famous. Although there were Disney cartoons before Mickey, Walt was certainly on the mark when he said "It all started with a mouse." Quite frankly, with Mickey's success it did.<br />
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But what made Mickey so special? What's his story? What is the appeal? Writers since day one have asked that question, Walt himself often seemed to struggle to define his greatest breakthrough. Garry Apgar opens up the vault as it were, on the discussion.<br />
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In A MICKEY MOUSE READER you will hear from Walt Disney himself to contemporary journalists, artists and historians about Mickey's appeal, his history and his future. You will journey through time and very literally witness the cultural evolution of the greatest cartoon star of all time. It's an entertaining journey, one to savor. <br />
<br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-42662196402277323672014-12-23T01:10:00.001-08:002014-12-23T01:10:36.015-08:00Walt the Polo PlayerAs we all know Walt was very passionate about polo in the 30s as were many male Hollywood producers and stars. I recently stumbled on this photo at auction:<br />
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Written on the reverse:<br />
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<br /><i>Here y'are Ma - our</i></div>
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<i>FIRST BIG GAME</i></div>
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<i>CHARLIE FARRELL'S CATS</i></div>
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<i>MICKEY MOUSE</i></div>
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<i>RIVIERA COUNTRY CLUB</i></div>
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<i>SANTA MONICA, CAL.</i></div>
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<i>JACK HOLT - REFEREE</i></div>
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<i>WE LOST 8 TO 4 BUT BETTER</i></div>
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<i>LUCK NEXT TIME.</i></div>
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<i>LEFT TO RIGHT IN THE PHOTO:-</i></div>
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<i>SNOWY BAKER</i></div>
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<i>TOMMY RAY</i></div>
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<i>CHAS. FARRELL</i></div>
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<i>LESLIE HOWARD</i></div>
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<i>"YOURS TRULY"</i></div>
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<i>WALT DISNEY</i></div>
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<i>GIL. PROCTOR</i></div>
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<i>DICK LUNDY</i></div>
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<i>(signed off by) NORMAN</i></div>
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The photo came with a copy of #14 of the RIVIERA CHUKKER dated August 25, 1935. Inside is an article about Walt:</div>
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<br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-37144782862614216362014-12-19T12:52:00.004-08:002014-12-19T12:52:48.604-08:00Walt and Staff - c.1933Walt and staff pose for a staff photo holding Post Toasties Cereal boxes, sometime in 1933.<br />
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<br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-70523605040831062542014-03-28T02:06:00.001-07:002014-03-28T02:06:33.624-07:00Walt at the Colonel Swope Memorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a long time since I've posted, I've been busy working on storyboards and squeezing time into my film inbetween leaving me with very little time for anything else.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about Walt's early days and got to thinking about the photos I have and which we've seen many of him and the Laugh-O-grams staff clowning in Swope Park Kansas. I typed Swope Park into the e-bay search and immediately found the above 1919 post card of the Colonel Swope Memorial also the grave site of Colonel Thomas Hunton Swope (Kansas real estate magnate) who passed away in 1909 under mysterious circumstances and was finally laid to rest in Swope Park (land which he donated in 1896) on April 8, 1918.<br />
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Here was an easy landmark to identify from the Laugh-O-gram photos which would have been taken around 1922 probably the fall since the trees are bare yet no snow is visible. The photos look like they've been inscribed with a date April 1922. Seems kind of odd to be playing on what's essentially a tomb, yet I've seen photos of weddings being held on the tomb itself which is at the foot of the plaque. <br />
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I'm still not sure who is sitting on the lion which is to the left of the memorial. My guess is Red Lyon.<br />
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Here's Walt, I'm not sure if this is at the memorial, seems like it could be.<br />
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My favorite photo with Walt and Mary? (unknown) on the forth step from the top in front of the plaque.<br />
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Walt with friend up high, possibly somewhere near the memorial which I should add is on a hill overlooking the Swope Park Zoo.<br />
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Walt stands on the left side urn.<br />
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Looking at some of the photos I found on Google it's easy to imagine, Walt, Red Lyon, Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising playing and posing around the place on a long forgotten afternoon before any of them were ever known to the world.<br />
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THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, now this is utter speculation but could the photo below be the location? The slope of the ground behind the boys could be a clue, there is also a trail visible behind them which can be seen in the modern day photo. There are trees nearby as in the modern photo, obviously 90 years of history would have seen them grow.<br />
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It's possible, the modern day photo would have been taken from the right side of the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH photo. Fun to imagine.<br />
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<br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-36943919655448456082013-12-05T01:36:00.003-08:002013-12-05T01:36:34.743-08:00Happy Birthday Walt - Thanks For The Joy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One the many facets of Walt beyond his accomplishments that I find enduring was his genuine love of animals. This nice photo was taken in 1954 by photographer Tom Blau shows Walt in Paris feeding pigeons. A tender image to mark Walt's 112th birthday.<br />
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A few days ago I was thinking about how would we have made it through the 20th Century without Walt and the many talents who joined him? Sure somebody would eventually have lifted animation to an art form, but would it have had such joy as Walt's work gave to Depression weary audiences? or would it have been cynical like much of today's stuff?<br />
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There is so much that followed Mickey, the growth of Looney Tunes and MGM Cartoons which along with Walt's films helped audiences through the dark years of World War II. We take so much of our culture for granted now, much of it has been a direct and indirect offshoot of Walt's push to elevate animation to another level as well as the creation of family entertainment and indeed the all important theme park which every conglomerate wants these days but cannot really duplicate.<br />
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Walt's work, his animated films were genuine, not corporate. To watch Snow White, to watch Bambi and many others you get a glimpse at Walt's soul. He lives through his work.<br />
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Happy Birthday Walt, thanks for the magic and showing dreams come true.<br />
<br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-5082545140152016612013-11-18T12:26:00.001-08:002013-11-18T12:26:29.835-08:00Happy 85th Birthday Mickey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Walt Disney once said, "That it all started with a mouse", while the studio actually started with the Alice Comedies it was very true in what Walt and the studio became. For Walt, it ushered in more money than he ever dreamed which gave him the ability to expand the art and language of animation culminating with the classic features. His dogged determination to hold onto Mickey, something all us creative types could learn from, gave him that rare freedom to control his destiny and take Mickey beyond movies and into TV and theme parks.<br />
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But Walt's words have even more meaning when taken into context with where we are today. While I believe that eventually somebody would have done something with animation, it may have taken decades had it not been for Mickey and for all intents and purposes may have ended up relegated solely to art. More astonishing to consider is how through Mickey, Walt changed the entertainment landscape and how people view pop culture. Not only that, since 1928 millions have grown up with childhood memories of Mickey and other Disney films, remembering fondly the first films their parents took them to see. Everything since 1928 owes some debt to Walt's belief in a little mouse.<br />
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So in honor of "the mouse that roared"enjoy these sequential drawings from his first official cartoon <i>STEAMBOAT WILLIE</i>.<br />
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICKEY!!!!<br />
<br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-32101502362906804222013-10-19T02:22:00.001-07:002013-10-19T02:22:39.881-07:00Happy Belated 90th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Walt Disney Company celebrated it's 90th anniversary last Wednesday. The company is a far cry from what it was on October 16, 1923 and indeed anytime under Walt and Roy's control. While I am a Star Wars fan and grew up on Marvel comics, and am a stockholder I feel something of Walt has been lost. Even the classics which he made no longer carry his name on the repackaging. That's marketing I guess.<br />
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Here are a few stills from WALT'S movies <i>Bambi </i>and <i>The Three Caballeros </i>to honor the company's rich legacy<i>.</i>Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-78636866488811179152013-08-09T23:39:00.000-07:002013-08-09T23:39:04.300-07:00MOTHERGOOSE GOES HOLLYWOOD - models<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I look at these models I'm reminded of how Disney's caricaturists were up top with the likes of Al Hirschfield. I'm not entirely sure, but I am assuming Joe Grant's model department must have been behind these.<br /><br />Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-24454142713054217222013-07-27T19:16:00.002-07:002013-07-27T19:16:46.486-07:00Profiles in History - July 31 animation auctionAs per usual Profile in History is holding an animation art auction full of great pieces, here are just a few I like:<br />
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GOOD HOUSEKEEPING original art</div>
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Going through my portfolio recently I came to realize that it's been a long time since I worked for the Disney Company at it's Australian studio. Even longer since working on the Jungle Book sequel as a layout artist. I can't believe it's been over 10 years already.</div>
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OK, the sequels certainly aren't and probably never will be classics, in some ways they turned my off the originals for a while. Maybe that was because we watched the originals over and over again. It's a pity that if sequels really had to be made they couldn't find better stories instead of obvious bad rehashing of the original material.</div>
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When we started layout on Jungle Book II we were given a pile of copies of layouts from the original film which we started out learning how to draw with the intention of following the style. Little did we know what a nightmare the production would become and how disappointing it would be to find that an executive high up made the decision that the film would have its own look.</div>
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That's right, for some reason we were suddenly making a sequel which appart from the main characters would have little in common with it's classic predecessor. As you can see, even the village was redesigned. All I can say about that is, who knows? In my mind a sequel should visually relate to the original while expanding on it. </div>
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Some very talented people worked on the film, including director Steve Trenbirth, it's a shame it wasn't a better film.</div>
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For me personally, I got to work with some ex-Disney feature guys who really helped lift our game in layouts. Some of my work can be seen here. Maybe one day I'll watch it.</div>
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Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-63536360481870675222013-02-14T22:23:00.000-08:002013-02-14T22:23:52.551-08:00Hank Porter Preliminary Snow White Strip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is an awesome comic art auction at Heritage Auctions and these beautiful preliminary pencils by Hank Porter for the Snow White strip. I may bid, not sure, they sure are nice. Personally I've always preferred rough pencil drawings to finished art.
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From the reverse:<br />
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"Striding across the Disney Studio in Hollywood, Ed Sullivan(left) discusses his next CBS-TV "Toast of the Town" biographical feature, "The Walt Disney Story,"with its subject, the great animated cartoonist himself.<br />
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To ring in 2013, here's an original BG I have in my collection. It's the opening shot of the Goofy short <em>The Art of Self Defense. </em>Enjoy.</div>
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Season's Greetings to all and to all a safe holiday season with this 1963 annual Disney Studio Christmas card.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-80653596198150003372012-12-15T17:11:00.001-08:002012-12-15T17:11:18.213-08:00Mickey & Uncle Remus Sundays - Feb. 21 & Sept. 15, 1953<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-47208520666750132672012-11-22T01:26:00.001-08:002012-11-22T01:29:55.807-08:00My Indiegogo Campaign Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you're probably are aware from this blog or <a href="http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/">Michael Sporn's Splog</a>, or you've heard via <a href="http://vintagedisneymemorabilia.blogspot.com.au/">David Lesjak's</a> wonderful plug or been reading <a href="http://www.michaelbarrier.com/">Michael Barrier's</a> excellent article regarding crowd funding (feel free to head over to Michael's page and read my commentsregarding some issues he raised) that I am running a campaign to finish a crucial phase of preproduction on my short CG animated cartoon Bounty Hunter Bunny. <br />
If you are at all interested in seeing the project and even are considering contributing please click the image above. We have 43 days left and have just hit the $1170 mark.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-44783867339750017102012-11-18T01:51:00.001-08:002012-11-18T01:51:39.894-08:00Mickey & Uncle Remus Sunday - January 10, 1953<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Something a little different from the usual Sundays, I recently bought some Uncle Remus pages as I'd never really seen any.
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What better way to celebrate Mickey's 84th birthday this week on November 18, than with this two page spead drawn by members of the National Cartoonists' Society in honor of Mickeys 20th birthday in 1948?Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-86337386375493955422012-10-30T23:58:00.000-07:002012-10-30T23:58:04.924-07:00My INDIEGOGO campaign<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the reasons I haven't posted as much as usual is I've been working on a new online funding campaign to raise funds for my short film/pilot between meeting storyboard deadlines.<br />
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Feel free to look it up and watch the animatic. Be warned, it's rough and it's not very Disney, in fact it has more in common with Warner Bros. The timing is still a bit slow, the gags have been punched up for the final version, I hope you enjoy.<br />
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If anyone contributes, you have my gratitude.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-63205253935793592872012-10-23T17:59:00.001-07:002012-10-23T17:59:32.181-07:00The Lost Art of Heinrich Kley<br />
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I just received my copies of THE LOST ART OF HEINRICH KLEY volumes 1 & 2. These books are great both as reference for the artist and art/Disney historian. In fact there are a few paragraphs in volume 1 regarding Kley's influence on FANTASIA. Click on the link below if you're interested in buying:<br />
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The August 28 page is the start of the <em>Brave Little Tailor </em>adaptation, I'll try to share those soon.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-63736872234782794932012-10-13T15:52:00.000-07:002012-10-13T16:19:58.497-07:00From the Disney Art Class - 1935<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's amazing what you find when you move house, I totally forgot about this document until I unpacked a box full of files from my filing cabinet after my wife and I moved house recently.<br />
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Snow White was well into development by this point and Walt's famous memo to Don Graham articulating his views on the development of animation was just over a month away. This takes you there to that exciting time when animation was on the verge of the next exciting jump in evolution.<br />
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It's a great read, very fitting to find it as I'm about to push forward in finishing my first independant short film. All the Disney shorts mentioned by Dr. Morkovin are available on DVD and I believe the film "Sleep" he mentions is actually Robert Benchley's "How To Sleep" which was released in 1935.<br />
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Dr. Morkovin is Dr. Boris Morkovin who was the chairman of the department of cinematography at USC(University of Southern California).He was recuited in May 1935 to subject the construction of a gag to the same kind of scrutiny Don Graham scrutinized action.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4052362120073711592.post-39615819075197750352012-09-18T15:52:00.000-07:002012-09-18T15:52:05.590-07:00Walt - 1938<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Personally, I've never seen this photo taken during work on <em>Bambi, </em>I've seen other photos from the same shoot but not this one.Mark Sonntaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17557982606223632494noreply@blogger.com0