Wilfred Jackson interview
Milt Gray and [Michael Barrier] recorded this interview with the great Disney cartoon director Wilfred Jackson at his home on Balboa Island, California, on November 5, 1976 [...]. This Jackson interview was [...] very much a followup interview, a supplement to the much longer and wider-ranging interview that Milt and [Michael Barrier] (and Bob Clampett) conducted in 1973 [...]. The 1976 interview is more of a nuts-and-bolts interview than the earlier one, concerned a little more with the day-to-day work of making cartoons, a little less with Walt Disney himself (although Walt is always present in some way), and not at all with chronology.
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By the time [Michael Barrier] sent him this transcript, late in 1977, Jackson and [Michael Barrier] had been corresponding frequently for several years; he was in his letters as in his interviews exceptionally careful and thorough. True to his habits as a director, he preferred letters to interviews, because of the time they permitted for second thoughts and revisions. He found interviews stressful, too, and thus a threat to his fragile health, and he begged off sitting for an interview with Milt Gray in 1977. Although [Michael Barrier] visited him again at his home on Balboa Island, there were no more interviews. [...]
Persons
Michael Barrier (author)Milton Gray (author)
Wilfred Jaxon (interviewee)
Ken Anderson (reference)
Art Babbitt (reference)
James Baskett (reference)
Kathryn Beaumont (reference)
Lee Blair (reference)
Mary Blair (reference)
Frank Churchill (reference)
Bob Clampett (reference)
Les Clark (reference)
Marc Davis (reference)
Phil Dike (reference)
Walt Disney (reference)
Bobby Driscoll (reference)
Norm Ferguson (reference)
Gerry Geronimi (reference)
George Goepper (reference)
Leigh Harline (reference)
Hugh Harman (reference)
T. Hee (reference)
Hugh Hennesy (reference)
Ub Iwerks (reference)
Milt Kahl (reference)
Ward Kimball (reference)
Jack King (reference)
Jack Kinney (reference)
Eric Larson (reference)
Ham Luske (reference)
Grim Natwick (reference)
Les Novros (reference)
Perce Pearce (reference)
Bill Peet (reference)
Woolie Reitherman (reference)
Herb Ryman (reference)
Ted Sears (reference)
Ben Sharpsteen (reference)
Webb Smith (reference)
Carl Stalling (reference)
McLaren Stewart (reference)
Frank Thomas (reference)
Bill Tytla (reference)
Roy Williams (reference)
Keywords
AnimationBackground Art
Bambi (1942)
Cinderella (1950)
Color scheme
Dancing/Dancer
Dopey
Dumbo (1941)
Fantasia (1940)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Live-Action Reference
Mickey Mouse
Multiplane camera
Music, Sound effects/Sound design
Pinocchio (1940)
Saludos Amigos (1942)
Silly Symphonies
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Song of the South (1946)
Strike
Stromboli
Technicolor
The Old Mill (1937)
Walt Disney Productions