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FATHER GEEK remembers MARC DAVIS
Back over the Thanksgiving Weekend of 1989 Harry & I (Father Geek) were set up at a
giant D-Con collectors/geek fest in a big north Dallas hotel ballroom. This was how we
made our living (from1971-97), traveling the state selling Goldenage and Silverage
comicbooks, vintage (silent thru the 50’s) movie material, science fiction and
fantasy/horror 1st editions, 1920’s-60’s toys, and original art from the comics & motion
picture cartoons. It was an ultra coooool lifestyle that allowed us about 20 days a month
free time, but more importantly to us it gave The Knowles’ inside access to some very
hard-to-find, even rare collectibles at affordiable realistic prices and we were above all else
avid collectors of everything to do with American pop culture of the 20th century.
So there we were, a 17 year old Harry and a 44 year old Father Geek, surrounded by our
inventory of prized childhood memories, just a fly speck in a room with millions of such
items. Three things really made us stand out from all the rest of the dealers at this and
other shows. First, we did not handle current comics, toys, and movie posters; only the
decades old ones. Second, we had a sense of artistic style that always made our displays
standout from across even the largest showrooms. And third, we had a large amount of
framed and matted Animation Cels, pencils, storyboards, and cartoon concept art on
display. This 3rd reason is what applys to today’s story more than the others.
We were in the back right hand corner of the room, our favorite spot to set up, and the
show was really dragging, very few customers, mostly dealers just talking to each other,
checking out the competition, looking for something they could use. This was common at
such shows in the late eighties and we usually depended on less than a dozen sales of
prime stuff to pull us thru. Sometimes it was picking something up that made the trip
worthwhile and not sales at all. That would be the case this weekend. This day it would
come wrapped in a plain brown grocery bag carried under the arm of a young skinhead in
his late twenties. A guy in greasy jeans and a sleeveless heavy metal T-shirt with arms
covered in tatoos. Not the kind that might decorate a biker, or even a punk rocker, but the
ones typically belonging to someone in the military, especially the Marines, even more so
the Navy. These were “Sailor Jerry” style artworks.
He stopped in front of our brick wall display of prime old comics, pretty good stuff; Tales
of Suspense 39, Avengers 1, Batman 22 & 23, Superboy 1, Amazing Fantasy 15, Lois
Lane 1, Hulk 2, Ironman 1, Sub-mariner 1, Marvel Mysteries, Mystics, WWII era Capt.
Americas, early Fantastic Fours, Silver Surfers and Amazing Spiderman. He was
interested in the Spiderman #2 we had priced at $750.00. “Would we trade?” he queried.
“What’s you got?”we responded. He laid the weightless bag on the table and I carefully
reached in and withdrew 10 pages of beautiful mint condition original drawings from
SNOW WHITE and PINOCCHIO. They weren’t in frames, not even matted, but they
were exceptional pieces of animation art. These weren’t the work of inbetweeners, these
were fine finished drawings of lead characters by a lead animator done in the typical
Disney Studio style from the late 30’s using graphite, blue and red pencils. I tried not to
drool... Too much.
“How’d you come by these?” I asked.
“Well, my bunkmate when I was in the Navy and I got shoreleave in LA about 5 years
ago and we went to see his Grandfather in Hollywood. He had worked for Walt Disney all
his life and he had a garage full of this stuff. Stacks waist high. He told us both to pick out
some pieces to take with us. I got these to put in my kids room, but I still haven’t got
married. My car broke down and I need $550 so I brought these to sell. There’s a dealer
on the other side of the room that told me he’d give me the money for your Spidey 2 (sic)
if I could trade it out of you since you deal in these kind of things. Are you interested?”
“Sure! Who was your buddy’s Grandfather?”
“Marc Davis, have you heard of him? He was supposed to be pretty big at Disney in the
old days.”
“Yeah, he was one of the ‘Nine Old Men’, one of Walt’s original group. Are you sure you
want to do this?”
“I don’t really have a use for them. I don’t have anything in them and I need my car
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
inventory of prized childhood memories, just a fly speck in a room with millions of such
items. Three things really made us stand out from all the rest of the dealers at this and
other shows. First, we did not handle current comics, toys, and movie posters; only the
decades old ones. Second, we had a sense of artistic style that always made our displays
standout from across even the largest showrooms. And third, we had a large amount of
framed and matted Animation Cels, pencils, storyboards, and cartoon concept art on
display. This 3rd reason is what applys to today’s story more than the others.
We were in the back right hand corner of the room, our favorite spot to set up, and the
show was really dragging, very few customers, mostly dealers just talking to each other,
checking out the competition, looking for something they could use. This was common at
such shows in the late eighties and we usually depended on less than a dozen sales of
prime stuff to pull us thru. Sometimes it was picking something up that made the trip
worthwhile and not sales at all. That would be the case this weekend. This day it would
come wrapped in a plain brown grocery bag carried under the arm of a young skinhead in
his late twenties. A guy in greasy jeans and a sleeveless heavy metal T-shirt with arms
covered in tatoos. Not the kind that might decorate a biker, or even a punk rocker, but the
ones typically belonging to someone in the military, especially the Marines, even more so
the Navy. These were “Sailor Jerry” style artworks.
He stopped in front of our brick wall display of prime old comics, pretty good stuff; Tales
of Suspense 39, Avengers 1, Batman 22 & 23, Superboy 1, Amazing Fantasy 15, Lois
Lane 1, Hulk 2, Ironman 1, Sub-mariner 1, Marvel Mysteries, Mystics, WWII era Capt.
Americas, early Fantastic Fours, Silver Surfers and Amazing Spiderman. He was
interested in the Spiderman #2 we had priced at $750.00. “Would we trade?” he queried.
“What’s you got?”we responded. He laid the weightless bag on the table and I carefully
reached in and withdrew 10 pages of beautiful mint condition original drawings from
SNOW WHITE and PINOCCHIO. They weren’t in frames, not even matted, but they
were exceptional pieces of animation art. These weren’t the work of inbetweeners, these
were fine finished drawings of lead characters by a lead animator done in the typical
Disney Studio style from the late 30’s using graphite, blue and red pencils. I tried not to
drool... Too much.
“How’d you come by these?” I asked.
“Well, my bunkmate when I was in the Navy and I got shoreleave in LA about 5 years
ago and we went to see his Grandfather in Hollywood. He had worked for Walt Disney all
his life and he had a garage full of this stuff. Stacks waist high. He told us both to pick out
some pieces to take with us. I got these to put in my kids room, but I still haven’t got
married. My car broke down and I need $550 so I brought these to sell. There’s a dealer
on the other side of the room that told me he’d give me the money for your Spidey 2 (sic)
if I could trade it out of you since you deal in these kind of things. Are you interested?”
“Sure! Who was your buddy’s Grandfather?”
“Marc Davis, have you heard of him? He was supposed to be pretty big at Disney in the
old days.”
“Yeah, he was one of the ‘Nine Old Men’, one of Walt’s original group. Are you sure you
want to do this?”
“I don’t really have a use for them. I don’t have anything in them and I need my car
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
of Suspense 39, Avengers 1, Batman 22 & 23, Superboy 1, Amazing Fantasy 15, Lois
Lane 1, Hulk 2, Ironman 1, Sub-mariner 1, Marvel Mysteries, Mystics, WWII era Capt.
Americas, early Fantastic Fours, Silver Surfers and Amazing Spiderman. He was
interested in the Spiderman #2 we had priced at $750.00.
“Would we trade?” he queried.
“What’s you got?”we responded. He laid the weightless bag on the table and I carefully
reached in and withdrew 10 pages of beautiful mint condition original drawings from
SNOW WHITE and PINOCCHIO. They weren’t in frames, not even matted, but they
were exceptional pieces of animation art. These weren’t the work of inbetweeners, these
were fine finished drawings of lead characters by a lead animator done in the typical
Disney Studio style from the late 30’s using graphite, blue and red pencils. I tried not to
drool... Too much.
“How’d you come by these?” I asked.
“Well, my bunkmate when I was in the Navy and I got shoreleave in LA about 5 years
ago and we went to see his Grandfather in Hollywood. He had worked for Walt Disney all
his life and he had a garage full of this stuff. Stacks waist high. He told us both to pick out
some pieces to take with us. I got these to put in my kids room, but I still haven’t got
married. My car broke down and I need $550 so I brought these to sell. There’s a dealer
on the other side of the room that told me he’d give me the money for your Spidey 2 (sic)
if I could trade it out of you since you deal in these kind of things. Are you interested?”
“Sure! Who was your buddy’s Grandfather?”
“Marc Davis, have you heard of him? He was supposed to be pretty big at Disney in the
old days.”
“Yeah, he was one of the ‘Nine Old Men’, one of Walt’s original group. Are you sure you
want to do this?”
“I don’t really have a use for them. I don’t have anything in them and I need my car
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
reached in and withdrew 10 pages of beautiful mint condition original drawings from
SNOW WHITE and PINOCCHIO. They weren’t in frames, not even matted, but they
were exceptional pieces of animation art. These weren’t the work of inbetweeners, these
were fine finished drawings of lead characters by a lead animator done in the typical
Disney Studio style from the late 30’s using graphite, blue and red pencils. I tried not to
drool... Too much.
“How’d you come by these?” I asked.
“Well, my bunkmate when I was in the Navy and I got shoreleave in LA about 5 years
ago and we went to see his Grandfather in Hollywood. He had worked for Walt Disney all
his life and he had a garage full of this stuff. Stacks waist high. He told us both to pick out
some pieces to take with us. I got these to put in my kids room, but I still haven’t got
married. My car broke down and I need $550 so I brought these to sell. There’s a dealer
on the other side of the room that told me he’d give me the money for your Spidey 2 (sic)
if I could trade it out of you since you deal in these kind of things. Are you interested?”
“Sure! Who was your buddy’s Grandfather?”
“Marc Davis, have you heard of him? He was supposed to be pretty big at Disney in the
old days.”
“Yeah, he was one of the ‘Nine Old Men’, one of Walt’s original group. Are you sure you
want to do this?”
“I don’t really have a use for them. I don’t have anything in them and I need my car
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
ago and we went to see his Grandfather in Hollywood. He had worked for Walt Disney all
his life and he had a garage full of this stuff. Stacks waist high. He told us both to pick out
some pieces to take with us. I got these to put in my kids room, but I still haven’t got
married. My car broke down and I need $550 so I brought these to sell. There’s a dealer
on the other side of the room that told me he’d give me the money for your Spidey 2 (sic)
if I could trade it out of you since you deal in these kind of things. Are you interested?”
“Sure! Who was your buddy’s Grandfather?”
“Marc Davis, have you heard of him? He was supposed to be pretty big at Disney in the
old days.”
“Yeah, he was one of the ‘Nine Old Men’, one of Walt’s original group. Are you sure you
want to do this?”
“I don’t really have a use for them. I don’t have anything in them and I need my car
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
old days.”
“Yeah, he was one of the ‘Nine Old Men’, one of Walt’s original group. Are you sure you
want to do this?”
“I don’t really have a use for them. I don’t have anything in them and I need my car
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
running.”
I made the deal and that’s how I came to know Marc Davis. In recent years hundreds of
Marc Davis’ fine pencils have come on the market. On Harry’s birthday, December 11, 1999
there was an animation art auction in Hollywood that had 43 different pieces of his art in
it. Several SNOW WHITES from the same sequences as I had picked up in Dallas years
ago were included. There were pieces of marc’s art offered from BAMBI,
CINDERELLA, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, PETER PAN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, 101
DALMATIONS, WALT DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR, and even
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. They brought in prices ranging from $1000 for a Goofy
and $2800 for a Cruella, to $1200 for a Peter Pan Mermaid and $3000 for Maleficent as
the Dragon.
You see MARC DAVIS was a lead animator in nearly all the great Disney cartoon
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
features. He and Grim Natwick were responcible for the look of SNOW WHITE. It was
he who gave us Maleficent, and Cruella, and Tinker Bell, and Bambi, and the Coachman,
and so so many more.
MARC DAVIS died the other day, and he will be sorely missed. Sure he was an old man who had lived a full life. He may have retired from
drawing animation years ago, but he didn’t retire from animation. He was available to talk
with and council young artists. He was there to inspire and spur on struggling animators.
He made appearances at gallerys and shows around the country; signing artwork and
bringing alive the early days of cartoons with his stories. Yes, MARC DAVIS will be
missed! We’ll aways have his art, but he... he is gone.
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What a legacy...
There's not much more you can say, this guy helped establish so many of our imaginations with his work. -
Animations is so prevalent today I am sure it is hard to imagine for some of you that most if it can be traced back to the
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were a group of artists that responded to Walt Disney's call for help in 1934. These men (mostly boys at the time were to form the nucleus of Walt's feature animation crews for years to come. Most of them continued to work for Disney until they just physically couldn't do it any longer. As a result the look and feel of the classic Disney Feature length cartoons is nearly all a result of their great efforts. The "Nine Old Men" are: MARC DAVIS, LES CLARK, MILT KAHL, WOLFGANG (WOOLIE) REITHERMAN, ERIC LARSEN, JOHN LOUNSBERY, WARD KIMBALL, FRANK THOMAS, and OLLIE JOHNSTON. Some others who worked a short time with this group back at this important formative period for animation included WALT KELLY creator of the Pogo comic strip and HANK KETCHAM creator of Dennis the Menace.
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That Marc Davis ALSO designed "Pirates of the Carribean," and "Haunted Mansion," among many other things at Disneyland. He also drew the very first MAP of Disneyland for Walt. Frank Thomas said Marc Davis drew the BEST of all the old guys.
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I was working for Fantasia Continued (it's name for quite a while before being changed to Fantasia '99 for a brief time and then finally Fantasia 2000) when we had a story room in the hat building set up for a Christmas party on year. There were various pieces of art from the different segments on display for people to see. When Marc Davis came into the room the artists got so excited. I was just one of the guys who pins up and schleps storyboards around, but my artist friends were good at teaching me the history of animation as well as showing me what they did. Mr. Davis offered his encouragement to some of the guys, and they were buzzing from that for weeks.
Also I wanted to point out another animation cameo since a previous poster brought up the subject. In the Shotakovich/Tin Soldier sequence of Fantasia there is a "Fish Monger" who pushes a cart down a Copenhagen street. It is noneother than Neil Eskuri, a pioneering CGI artist and all around wonderful guy. He is the man with the mustache that the little boy's mom flags down to buy fish. Watch for him! He's done a lot over the years, including the animated filmthingydude that AMC theaters shows. -
A wonderful Disney website called LaughingPlace.com is collecting memories and condolences to be delivered to Marc's wife, Alice. Thank Mark for bringing so much joy to our world.
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I remember years ago, I was married to my first wife. At the time I lived in Southern California and we went and visited her uncle...who had 3 young children. They had just finished the nursery/playroom for them and we went and looked.
There are all kinds of Disney characters hand-drawn on the walls of the room. I looked close and noticed they weren't decals or something. I asked who did these and her Uncle said that our neighbor down the street drew them as a gift for the birth of our 3rd child. Then he said he used to work at Disney or something, but didn't know what he did. I asked him what his name was and he said "Oh, Ward Kimball...".
I was shocked. I said "do you KNOW who Ward Kimball is?" and he didn't, so I went through the list of movies that Ward worked on and then it was HIS turn to be shocked.
I then made him PROMISE never-ever to paint over those walls. -
And today, if any of the remaining nine old men were to draw Disney characters on a neighbor's walls, the neighbor would be sued by Disneycorp...It's sad that they are passing away, but perhaps sadder that so many people don't know or care who they are. And that the company they used to work for are now in it ONLY for the money.
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Just as anyone who respecy masters I was sad to hear of Marc Davis's passing. Marc davis and Milt Kahl were my two favorite of the nine old men.Although it's sad there is a upside, in the memory of Mr. Davis you can send money to a calarts fund in his name. This will make sure that there will be another animator to continue the rich legacy. I also hope that they will release the two books he was working before his death.
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