Gyo Fujikawa
Author: John Canemaker, Walt's People: Volume 16 - Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 16, 1994-10-27, Chapter 5,pp. 23-28,EN
[John Canemaker] met Gyo Fujikawa by contacting her publishing company and then her agent. Ms. Fujikawa was in her late 80s when [he] interviewed her. She used a walker on wheels to get around the sunny, quiet apartment filled with Japanese art on East 57th Street in Manhattan, where she had lived and worked since the early 1960s. Ms. Fujikawa was a gentle woman, beautiful and proud, and full of inner strength. She spoke candidly, as you will read, about her work and her life: Her time at Disney designing books to promote Fantasia; her family’s experience in an internment camp during World War II; her brilliant career as a children’s book illustrator, who fought for and won royalties for her published works. [...]
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- 1 - Louis A. Pesmen - letter to Dave Smith (Louis A. Pesmen)
- 2 - Grim Natwick (Robin Allan)
- 3 - Articles from the Bulletin ([multiple])
- 4 - Gyo Fujikawa ([unknown])
- 5 - Gyo Fujikawa
- 6 - Hicks Lokey (Mark Langer)
- 7 - Excerpt from Jack Bradbury’s Autobiography (Jack Bradbury)
- 8 - Jack Kinney ([unknown])
- 9 - Charles August “Nick” Nichols ([unknown])
- 10 - Character design and development panel held at Chouinard (Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Bill Tytla)
- 11 - Ken Annakin (EMC West)
- 12 - Irwin Kostal (Richard Holliss)
- 13 - Lucille Martin (Michael Broggie)
- 14 - Woolie Reitherman and Mel Shaw (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston)
- 15 - Claude Coats (Jay Horan)
- 16 - William “Sully” Sullivan (Jim Korkis)
- 17 - George McGinnis (Didier Ghez)
- 18 - Making Magic - How Computers Influenced Roller Coaster Design (William M. Watkins)
- 19 - Walt Disney World’s Space Mountain (George McGinnis)
- 20 - Disneyland’s Space Mountain (George McGinnis, William Watkins)
- 21 - Horizons (George McGinnis)
- 22 - On Track (George McGinnis)
- 23 - Jack Buckley (Bob Thomas)
- 24 - Ted Kierscey (Didier Ghez)
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