Walt Kelly in Features (I)
Meet also Tom Oreb, Paul Murry and Fred Moore - and what was called "Music Room" previously, is now "Unit 3-D" - which must be the director's offices on the 3rd floor of D-wing...
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Thank you for these, Hans. I've got a shelf full of Walt Kelly's comic book, book illustrations and newspaper strip work. His Disney career has always been a major mystery, as no one before has been able to point to specific scenes. This is great.
I've been feeding the information you've published on the Thomson Mickey shorts to Steve Thompson, who is the editor of the Walt Kelly fanzine The Fort Mudge Most and working on a Walt Kelly biography. I'll pass this along to him as well, but may make up a mosaic before doing it.
I'll have to take another look at the film in order to judge Kelly's work. It appears that he got more opportunity for acting in this film than in the Thomson Mickey shorts. If so, then maybe the strike occurred at exactly the wrong time for Kelly.
Kelly's health prevented him from being drafted during the war, so if it hadn't been for the strike, it's probable he would have stayed at the studio for the duration. If he was a rising star, the strike deprived him and us of some good animation.
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