Conundrum...
In a stash of photos, I have these three pictures, which were taken at the same time, at the Disney studios. It seems there is a drawing of a drawing table and a dancing Goofy on one of the pictures, which makes me think of The Reluctant Dragon. In some way, I think it MIGHT be Norm Ferguson behind the gentleman serving coffee(?) in the middle picture, but I have no way of being sure.
Can anyone tell me who and what we are looking at?
(Neg. Nrs. on the back: 32-206, 32-204 & 32-203).
Can anyone tell me who and what we are looking at?
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Labels: Other Disney
posted by Hans Perk at 12:00 PM
4 Comments:
Hans, I can't identify anything here, but the middle picture suggests to me that these images might come from the South American tour that led to Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. I wonder if these people were local South American cartoonists?
Are you certain that they were taken AT the Disney studio?
Mark, I'm pretty sure I have seen the gentleman with the bushy eyebrows before in Disney context, and I do think that they would not have put up storyboards during the trip itself, but it can certainly be related to that trip and the two features...
In the first photo, the person standing in the middle looks a lot like Card Walker, but I don't know how this would tie in with the South American films. Walker was away from the studio between 1941 and 1945, but his role working with the Audience Research Institute (ARI) had him involved with all Disney film releases.
Yeah, that's Card Walker in the first photo. Card was around when I worked at Disney back in the fifties, and the last time I saw Card was just before the big management change with Eisner and Wells taking over at Disney in the eighties.
He sure looks young in that photo.
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