Wilfred Jackson interview
Author: Michael Barrier, Milton Gray, and Bob Clampett, Michael Barrier, 1973-12-02,EN
Wilfred Emmons Jackson (1906-1988) was one of the tiny handful of Walt Disney's employees who could say accurately that they were "present at the creation"—not of the studio itself, but of Mickey Mouse, the Silly Symphonies, and the films most distinctively and admirably "Disney": the great animated shorts and features of the 1930s and 1940s.
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In interviews and letters, Jackson was as painstaking and careful to say what he meant as he had been when he was directing Disney cartoons. He returned the transcript of this interview to me with minimal changes, although he refined some of his answers in subsequent letters.[...]
Interview
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Persons
Michael Barrier (author)Bob Clampett (author)
Milton Gray (author)
Wilfred Jaxon (interviewee)
Ken Anderson (reference)
Art Babbitt (reference)
Marjorie Belcher (reference)
Mary Blair (reference)
Marge Champion (reference)
Frank Churchill (reference)
Les Clark (reference)
Jack Cutting (reference)
Marc Davis (reference)
Walt Disney (reference)
Norm Ferguson (reference)
Don Graham (reference)
Joe Grant (reference)
Hugh Harman (reference)
Ub Iwerks (reference)
Ollie Johnston (reference)
Milt Kahl (reference)
Ward Kimball (reference)
Jack King (reference)
Eric Larson (reference)
Bela Lugosi (reference)
Dick Lundy (reference)
Charles Mintz (reference)
Fred Moore (reference)
Perce Pearce (reference)
Ben Sharpsteen (reference)
Dave Smith (reference)
Webb Smith (reference)
Carl Stalling (reference)
Bill Tytla (reference)
Ralph Wright (reference)
Keywords
AnimationBackground Art
Chernabog
Chouinard Art Institute
Dopey
Dumbo (1941)
Fantasia (1940)
Fantasound
Goofy
Johnny Appleseed
Live-Action
Live-Action Reference
Mickey Mouse
Mother Goose goes Hollywood (1938)
Music, Sound effects/Sound design
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Peculiar Penguins (1934)
Pinocchio (1940)
Silly Symphonies
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Song of the South (1946)
Steamboat Willie (1928)
Stromboli
Studio (Hyperion)
The Old Mill (1937)
Added: 2015-08-01