Working on “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
As remembered by Preston Blair in Cartoonist PROfiles No.49, 1981
Author: Jud Hurd, Walt's People: Volume 15 - Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 15, 1981, Chapter 7,pp. 73-76,EN
In a short span of twelve years Walt Disney (and his studio) advanced from Steamboat Willie, which is primitive by today’s standards, to Mickey in Fantasia as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. With the other great Disney classics of that golden era, the film practically came out of nowhere.
Writers claim that “after forty years (now), the animation of Fantasia remains unsurpassed. The film looms now as a masterpiece with a cult following ever enlarging all over the world. They say watching Fantasia is an awakening, an emotional experience on an unknown higher plateau of consciousness.” It is claimed “Fantasia is psychedelic, a soul trip to another dimension…a high point in the art of animated film…” […]
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- 1 - Robert Cook (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Grim Natwick (John Culhane)
- 3 - Clair Weeks (Milton Gray)
- 4 - Willis Pyle (Bob Casino)
- 5 - Charlene Sundblad about Helen and Hugh Hennesy (Didier Ghez)
- 6 - Preston Blair (Göran Broling)
- 7 - Working on “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” - As remembered by Preston Blair in Cartoonist PROfiles No.49, 1981
- 8 - The Life and Times of Cy Young (Steven Hartley)
- 9 - Lynn Karp (Michael Barrier and Milton Gray)
- 10 - Of Skit and Skat and This and That - The Autobiography of Basil Reynolds (Basil Reynolds)
- 11 - The Life and Times of Riley Thomson (Alberto Becattini)
- 12 - Ward Kimball (John Culhane)
- 13 - Wilfred Jackson (John Culhane)
- 14 - Hamilton Luske - remembered by his children, Carol Jean Luske, Peggy Finefrock, and Jim Luske (Jim Korkis)
- 15 - Norman “Stormy” Palmer (Michael Broggie)
- 16 - Guy Williams Jr. (EMC West)
- 17 - Buddy Van Horn (EMC West)
- 18 - Suzanne Lloyd (EMC West)
- 19 - Roger Broggie - Draft of Biographical Notes (George Sherman)
- 20 - Karl Bacon and Ed Morgan (Jim Korkis)
- 21 - Bill Martin (Dave Smith)
- 22 - Bill Evans (Jay Horan)
- 23 - Card Walker (John Culhane)
- 24 - Mike Peraza (Didier Ghez)
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