Woolie Reitherman
INTERVIEWER: What were some of the techniques employed in making the Silly Symphonies that were vital to being able to make a feature-length animated film? That was kind of a period of great experimentation.
WOOLIE REITHERMAN: Yeah, it was. Of course, color and music—I don’t know about techniques—but color and music had a greater opportunity, in a different vein, than the music that went with the shorts, the Mickey Mouse shorts. They used to call it “Mickey Mouse music”. I guess they still do.
The Old Mill was a thrust into a richer effects type of animation and also in the way it was staged and photographed, the camera work. But I think, mainly, the thrust of those Symphonies was—I don’t know if the word “class” fits it, but it was a thrust to an attempt at something more beautiful. And we used symphonic music in it, too; public domain, of course. But the main thing is that it was a whole different creative thrust and there was also… to me the thing I remember the most, there was a certain innocence and naiveté in those little shorts which I think also translated to Snow White.
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- 1 - Lorina Coomber Butler (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Leigh Harline (R. Vernon Steele)
- 3 - Jim MacDonald (John Culhane)
- 4 - Woolie Reitherman
- 5 - T. Hee (John Culhane)
- 6 - My Job at Walt Disney’s - written for sorority magazine "The Lyre" (Mary Lou Eastman Whitman)
- 7 - Jack Hannah ([unknown])
- 8 - Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (Michael Barrier)
- 9 - Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (Michael Barrier)
- 10 - Ken Anderson (John Culhane)
- 11 - Ken Anderson (John Culhane)
- 12 - Dan Noonan (Bill Spicer, Vince Davis)
- 13 - The Autobiography of Bill Wright (Bill Wright)
- 14 - Jack Bruner (Dave Smith)
- 15 - Art Stevens - Talent Development Discussion Group - Lecture about Man in Space
- 16 - Bill Anderson (Bob Thomas)
- 17 - Bill Anderson (Michael Broggie)
- 18 - Bob McCrea (Dave Smith)
- 19 - Bob McCrea (Bob Thomas)
- 20 - The “Lost” Joe Potter Interview - with introductory material by Jim Korkis (Sam Rosen)
- 21 - Harper Goff (Jay Horan)
- 22 - Phil Mendez (Didier Ghez)
