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The Animated Man

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by Michael Barrier


  interest in licensing merchandise

  interviews with

  at Kaycee Studios

  at Laugh-O-gram Films

  lawn bowling

  limited role in studio’s early advances

  “live steam” backyard railroad

  Marceline, Missouri, memories of

  Medal of Freedom

  move to home on Lyric Avenue

  move to Los Angeles

  negotiations with Charles Mintz

  Newman Laugh-O-grams

  as news butcher

  as newspaper delivery boy in Kansas City, Missouri

  nighttime visits to studio

  1931 “breakdown”

  1935 European trip

  1957 commuting route

  and One Hundred and One Dalmatians

  on origin of Mickey Mouse

  passion for miniatures

  personal financial status in early 1950s

  personal identification with studio

  Pinocchio, regrets about

  Pinocchio, role in production

  on plans for Florida park

  playacting, value of

  pleasure in True-Life Adventures

  political involvement

  possible strains in marriage

  profanity

  return to Kansas City

  role in live-action filming

  self-absorption

  Silly Symphonies

  Sleeping Beauty, role in production

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, role in production

  Song of the South, role in production

  sports, participation in

  and Steamboat Willie

  story, ideas about

  strike’s effect on

  as studio’s coordinator

  television, interest in

  trains, love for

  turn away from animation

  vacation in Europe

  work habits

  work on Carousel of Progress

  work on Pirates of the Caribbean ride

  during World War II

  writers’ attempts at manipulation

  “writing” of live-action films

  Disney, Walt, British Films Limited

  Disney, Walt, Company

  Disney, Walt, Enterprises

  Disney, Walt, Incorporated

  Disney, Walt, Productions

  acquisition of most of WED

  aircraft

  announcement of Disney’s surgery

  application for television license

  Burbank studio

  buyout of other Disneyland owners

  cuts to production costs

  Disneyland, part ownership of

  after Disney’s death

  Florida park

  name adopted

  negotiations for RKO merger

  stock offerings

  subsidy to arts schools

  Disney Brothers Studio

  move to Hyperion Avenue

  Disney Film Recording Company

  Disneyland

  Audio-Animatronics at Enchanted Tiki Room

  choice of location

  construction

  and death of Disney

  Disney’s speech at tenth anniversary celebration

  early plans

  end of shared ownership

  Fantasy-land

  Jungle Cruise ride

  limits on storytelling and movement

  Main Street

  Matterhorn ride

  opening day

  operating problems

  other “themed” attractions

  Pirates of the Caribbean ride

  search for television partner

  transportation in

  Disneyland (television series)

  Disneyland, Incorporated

  “Disneylandia” (proposed traveling exhibit)

  Disney World (Florida). Also see Florida, as location for second park

  division of labor at Disney studio

  Dollard, Kathleen

  Donald’s Roadside Market. See Old MacDonald Duck

  Don Juan

  Don Quixote

  D’Orsi, Ugo

  Douglas, Kirk

  Drake, George

  Driscoll, Bobby

  Dumbo

  DuMont network

  Earle, Eyvind

  Eastman, Mary

  Ebsen, Buddy

  Economic Research Associates

  Edouarde, Carl

  Efron, Edith

  Eisenhower, Dwight

  Eisner, Michael

  Ellenshaw, Peter

  Elmer Elephant

  Englander, Otto

  EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow)

  Epcot Center

  “E” Ticket, The

  Eugster, Al

  Evans, Morgan “Bill”

  Evans, W. L., School of Cartooning

  exposure sheets

  extremes (key drawings)

  Eyssel, G. S.

  Fairbanks, Douglas

  Fallberg, Carl

  Fantasia

  Fantasound

  Farwell, Captain Raymond F.

  Father Noah’s Ark

  Federation of Screen Cartoonists

  Feld, Milton

  Felix the Cat (series)

  Felton, Earl

  Fennell, Paul

  Ferguson, Norman

  Ferguson, Otis

  Festival of California Living at Pan-Pacific Auditorium

  Film Booking Offices (FBO)

  Fine Arts Institute. See Kansas City Art Institute

  Fleischer, Max

  Fleischer, Richard

  Flohri, Emil

  Florida, as location for second park. See also Disney World

  Flowers and Trees

  Flying Jalopy, The

  Flying Mouse, The

  Ford, Henry

  Ford, John

  Ford Motor Company

  Forest Inn Café (Kansas City)

  Forest Service, U.S.

  Forsythe, Clyde

  Foster, Harve

  Foster, Norman

  Four Musicians [of Bremen], The (Laugh-O-gram)

  Fowler, Joe

  Fox Hunt, The

  France, Van Arsdale

  Francis, Edna. See Disney, Edna Francis

  Fraser, Hugh

  Freleng, Isadore “Friz”

  Friedman, Ray

  Frolicking Fish

  Frontierland (episodes of Disneyland)

  Fuller, William

  Fun and Fancy Free

  Gallopin’ Gaucho, The

  Garbutt, Bernard

  Garden Cities of To-morrow (Howard)

  Gardner, John

  Garity, Bill

  Garner, Marcellite

  Gaucho, The

  General, The

  General Electric

  General Motors

  George, Hazel

  Gibson, Blaine

  Giegerich, Charles J.

  Gillett, Burt

  Gipson, Fred

  Goddess of Spring, The

  Goepper, George

  Goff, Harper

  Gold Diggers of 1935

  Golden Oaks Ranch

  Goldenson, Leonard

  Golden Touch, The

  Goldman, Frank

  Gombrich, E. H.

  Gone With the Wind

  Gottfredson, Floyd

  Graham, Donald W.

  Grain That Built a Hemisphere, The

  “Granny’s Cabin”

  Grant, Campbell

  Grant, Joe

  Grant, Morton

  Grauman’s Chinese Theatre

  Gray, Milton

  Great Locomotive Chase, The

  Greene, Bob

  Greenfield Village

  Griffin, Eleanore

  Grimes, Steven

  Gruen, Victor

  Gurr, Bob

  Haden-Guest, Anthony

  Hall, Dick. See Marion, Dick

&n
bsp; Hamilton, Rollin

  Hand, David

  as Bambi supervising director

  in charge of short subjects

  as Snow White supervising director

  Hannah, Jack

  Harline, Leigh

  Harman, Fred

  Harman, Hugh

  at Disney Brothers Studio

  at Laugh-O-gram

  at Walt Disney Productions

  Harman, Walker

  Haskin, Byron

  Havenstrite, Russell

  Hawks, Howard

  Heart of Our Cities, The (Gruen)

  Hee, Thornton

  Helvenston, Harold

  Hench, John

  Hermosa neighborhood (Chicago)

  Hibler, Winston

  Hilberman, Dave

  Hind’s Hall of Fame (radio program)

  Hollywood Bowl “Tribute to Walt Disney”

  Hopper, Hedda

  Hound of Florence, The (Salten)

  House Committee on Un-American Activities

  Howard, Ebenezer

  Howard, Thelma

  Hubler, Richard

  Hudson, Bert

  Huemer, Dick

  Hughes, Howard

  Hurlburt, Bud

  Hurrell, George

  Hurrell Productions

  Hurter, Albert

  Hurtz, William

  Huxley, Aldous

  Iger, Robert

  inbetweeners

  inbetweens

  In Search of the Castaways

  Invitation to the Dance (unfinished film)

  Irvine, Richard

  Isaacs, Hermine Rich

  Ising, Adele

  Ising, Rudolph

  at Disney Brothers Studio

  at Laugh-O-gram Films

  Isis Theatre (Kansas City)

  Iwerks, Ub (Ubbe Iwwerks)

  break with Disneys

  as director of Silly Symphonies

  disagreements with Walt Disney

  at Disney Brothers Studio

  at Laugh-O-gram Films

  as Mickey Mouse animator

  and Mickey Mouse comic strip

  as Oswald animator

  as Skeleton Dance animator

  Iwerks-Disney (commercial art partnership)

  “Jack and the Beanstalk” (unfinished feature)

  Jackson, Robert

  Jackson, Wilfred

  as cartoon director of Song of the South

  as Cinderella director

  as director of Lullaby Land

  as director of The Goddess of Spring

  as director of The Old Mill

  as director of The Pied Piper

  on Disney as inspirational boss

  on Disney’s attitude toward studio

  on Disney’s disengagement from animation

  on Disney’s “fast eye”

  on Father Noah’s Ark and storyboard

  on Snow White as “source of great trouble” to Disney

  as Snow White director

  and Steamboat Willie

  Janzen, Leon

  Johnny Tremain

  Johns, Glynis

  Johnston, Ollie

  as backyard railroad enthusiast

  as Cinderella animator

  as Pinocchio animator

  as Sleeping Beauty animator

  Jones, Dean

  Jungle Book, The

  Justice, James Robertson

  Kahl, Milt

  as Bambi animator

  as Cinderella animator

  as Pinocchio animator

  Kansas City, Missouri

  Kansas City Art Institute

  Kansas City Film Ad Company

  Kansas City Slide Company

  Kaufman, J. B.

  Kaufman, Van

  Kausler, Mark

  Kaycee Studios

  Keaton, Buster

  Kelley, W. R.

  Kelly, Arthur W.

  Kennedy Center

  Kimball, Ward

  as train enthusiast

  King, Jack

  King Features Syndicate

  King Neptune

  Kinney, Jack

  Kirk, Tommy

  Knight, Eric

  Kopietz, Fred

  Korkis, Jim

  Krazy Kat (series)

  Kurtz, Wilbur

  Lady and the Tramp

  Laemmle, Carl

  Lafflets

  Langer, Mark

  Lantz, Walter, studio

  Larson, Eric

  Laugh-O-gram Films

  Leahy, Fred

  Legg, Gordon

  Leica reels

  Lessing, Gunther

  Lewis, Bert

  licensing of Disney merchandise

  Lichtman, Al

  Light in the Forest, The

  Lights of New York

  Lilly Belle (miniature locomotive)

  Lincoln Center

  Lindbergh, Charles

  Linkletter, Art

  Little Hiawatha

  Little People, The. See also Darby O‘Gill and the Little People

  Little Red Riding Hood (Laugh-O-gram)

  Living Desert, The

  Lloyd, Harold

  Lockheed Aircraft

  Los Angeles Conservatory of Music

  Los Rancheros Visitadores

  Lounsbery, John

  Love, Ed

  Lovelace, Jonathan Bell

  Luckman, Charles

  Lullaby Land

  Lundy, Dick

  as Snow White animator

  Luske, Hamilton

  as Pied Piper animator

  as Snow White animator

  as Tortoise and the Hare animator

  Lutz, Edwin G.

  Lyon, Francis

  Lyon, Red

  MacArthur, James

  Mace, Leslie

  Mack, Brice

  MacMurray, Fred

  Make Mine Music

  Maltin, Leonard

  Mamma’s Affair

  Manriquez, Carlos

  Marceline, Missouri

  Marion, Dick

  Marling, Karal Ann

  Martha (“Song-O-Reel”)

  Martin, Alice (aunt)

  Martin, Bill

  Martin, Mike (uncle)

  Martin, Pete

  Mary Poppins

  Mason, James

  Maxwell, C. G. “Max”

  Mayer, Hy

  McArthur, John

  McConahy Building (Kansas City)

  McGuire, Dorothy

  McKinley High School (Chicago)

  Melody Time

  Menen, Aubrey

  Merritt, Chris

  Merritt, Russell

  Messmer, Otto

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

  Mickey Mouse (character)

  Mickey Mouse (series)

  Mickey Mouse Club

  “Mickey Mouse park”

  Mickey Plays Papa

  Mickey’s Circus

  Mickey’s Good Deed

  Mickey’s Mechanical Man

  Mickey’s Steamroller

  Midnight and Jeremiah (Sterling North)

  Midnight in a Toy Shop

  Miller, Diane Disney (daughter)

  Miller, John P.

  Miller, Ronald P., Jr. (son-in-law)

  Mills, Hayley

  Mills, John

  Milotte, Alfred and Elma

  Minda, Meyer

  Mineo, Sal

  Mineral King project

  Miniature Locomotive (magazine)

  Mintz, Charles

  model department

  Modern Times

  Monahan, Dodie

  Moore, Fred

  as Dumbo animator

  as Golden Touch animator

  and Pinocchio

  as Snow White animator

  as Three Little Pigs animator

  Morkovin, Boris V.

  Moses, Robert

  Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

  Moving Day

 
; multiplane camera

  Murphy, George

  Music Land

  Mussolini, Benito

  Muybridge, Eadweard

  My Fair Lady

  My Friend Flicka

  Nash, Clarence

  National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  National Film Board of Canada

  National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

  Natwick, Grim

  Newman Laugh-O-grams

  Newman Theatre

  Newton, Robert

  New York World’s Fair of 1964–65

  Carousel of Progress

  Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln

  It’s a Small World

  Magic Skyway

  “Night on Bald Mountain” (segment of Fantasia)

  “nine old men” (supervising animators)

  Noble, Maurice

  Nolan, Bill

  Nolley, Lance

  Noonan, Dan

  Norman, Floyd

  Nunis, Richard

  “Nutcracker Suite” (segment of Fantasia)

  Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)

  O’Connor, Kendall

  Odlum, Floyd

  Old MacDonald Duck

  Old Mill, The

  Old Yeller

  “One Hour in Wonderland”

  One Hundred and One Dalmatians

  ones and twos (animation techniques)

  On Ice

  Opry House, The

  Oreb, Tom

  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (character)

  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (series)

  Our Gang (series)

  Out of the Inkwell (series)

  Owens-Illinois Glass Company

  O-Zell Company

  Pacific Ready-Cut Homes

  Palm Springs, California

  Pantages theater chain

  Papineau, Grace

  Parker, Fess

  Parks, Edwin

  Park School (Marceline)

  Parr, Walter Robinson

  Parsons, Louella

  Patten, Luana

  Patterson, Don

  Pearce, Perce: as Bambi supervisor

  as Snow White writer and director

  as Song of the South associate producer

  as Story of Robin Hood producer

  as Sword and the Rose producer

  as Treasure Island producer

  Pease, Paul

  Peculiar Penguins

  Peet, Bill

  Pegler, Westbrook

  Peiser’s restaurant (Kansas City)

  pencil tests

  Penner, Ed

  People and Places (series)

  Pereira, William

  Pereira and Luckman (architectural firm)

  Perine, Robert

  Perkins, Al

  Perri

  Pesmen, Louis A.

  Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio

  Peter Pan

  Peterson, Ken

  Pfeiffer, Walt

  Pictorial Clubs

  Pidgeon, Walter

  Pied Piper, The

  Pinocchio

  animation of title character

  failure at box office

  live action, use of in animation

  writing of

  Pinocchio (Collodi)

  Pixar studio

  Plane Crazy

  Playful Pluto

  Plowboy, The

  Pollyanna

  Poor Papa

  Potter, General William E. “Joe”

  Potter, H. C.

  Powers, Patrick A.

  Powers Cinephone

  Practical Pig, The

  Pratt, Hawley

  Price, Harrison “Buzz”: and CalArts

  on choosing site for Disneyland

 

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