Ward Kimball interview
John Culhane: This is John Culhane. I am on the Mickey Mouse Train, a private railroad car of the Amtrak train. We’ve just pulled out of Chicago Station, at Union Station in Chicago. We’re on our way to Washington, D.C. It is Thursday, November 16, 1978. Last night I was master of ceremonies for two retrospectives of Mickey Mouse cartoons, the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the Chicago Film Festival at the Biograph Theatre, where John Dillinger was killed, and at the Varsity Theatre in Evanston. Introducing Ward Kimball, the great Walt Disney animator, one of the Nine Old Men, interviewed on CBS Television last night live by Gene Siskel, the film critic of the Chicago Tribune.[...]
JC: Who were the two guys that Walt used to tell the story, “They can’t think of good stories, but I keep them around because… ”?
Ward Kimball: That’s what he told me on that trip in ’48. Homer Brightman and Harry Reeves. He told me that sitting in a car going across the Arizona desert.
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Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - The Mique Nelson letters (Mique Nelson)
- 2 - Katherine Kerwin interview (Dave Smith)
- 3 - Gerry Geronimi interview (Michael Barrier, Milton Gray)
- 4 - Gerry Geronimi interview (Ross Care)
- 5 - Ward Kimball interview (Ross Care)
- 6 - Ward Kimball interview
- 7 - Dick Huemer interview (John Culhane)
- 8 - Ken O'Connor interview (Ron Merk)
- 9 - Chaperone for Donald Duck (Janet Martin)
- 10 - Herb Ryman interview (Kathy Greene, Richard Greene)
- 11 - Five Years with Walt (Don Douglass)
- 12 - Ken Peterson interview (Bob Thomas)
- 12 - Ken Peterson interview (Bob Thomas)
- 13 - Kay Wright interview (Alberto Becattini)
- 14 - Dell Conell interview (Bill Spicer)
- 15 - Elma Milotte interview (MICA Productions)
- 16 - Bob Gurr interview (Doobie Moseley)
- 17 - Bob Gurr interview (Jim Korkis)
- 18 - Bob Gurr interview (Didier Ghez)
- 19 - Barbara Palmer interview (Michael Broggie)
- 20 - Hani El-Masri interview (Julie Svendsen)
