Taking My Best Shot
Working on Disney's "The Saga of Windwagon Smith"
Author: Floyd Norman, Walt's People: Volume 5 - Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 5, 2006-08, Chapter 21,pp. 304-306,EN
We all remember our first job, first car, and certainly our first love. Like everyone else I’ve got a “first” as well, only mine is going to be a little different. I remember my first animated scene in a Disney cartoon, and how that scene ushered me into the highly coveted position of “animator” at the Mouse House. We’ll get to that cartoon in a bit, but first a little Disney history.
Let’s go back to the nineteen sixties with the completion of the feature film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Disney’s animation department had already suffered a severe downsizing after Sleeping Beauty. But now animation was informed it would have to tighten its belt even more. […]
Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - Hugh Harman (Michael Barrier)
- 2 - Nadine Missakian (Dave Smith)
- 3 - Ward Kimball (Rick Shale)
- 4 - Erwin Verity (Dave Smith, Rick Shale)
- 5 - James Algar (Richard Hubler)
- 6 - Winston Hibler (Richard Hubler)
- 7 - Bill Anderson (Richard Hubler)
- 8 - Bill Walsh (Richard Hubler)
- 9 - Bill Walsh (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 10 - George Bruns (Richard Hubler)
- 11 - Buddy Baker (John Burlingame)
- 12 - Buddy Baker (Jérémie Noyer)
- 13 - Fess Parker (Michael Barrier)
- 14 - Walt Stanchfield (Christian Renaut)
- 15 - Marc Davis (Richard Hubler)
- 16 - Alice Davis (Dave Oneil)
- 17 - T. Hee (Richard Hubler)
- 18 - Maurice Noble (Harry McCracken)
- 19 - Al Dempster (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 20 - Walt Peregoy (Bob Miller)
- 21 - Taking My Best Shot - Working on Disney's "The Saga of Windwagon Smith"
- 22 - The Making of The Jungle Book - as remembered by Floyd Norman (Floyd Norman)
- 23 - Bill Evans (Jim Korkis)
- 24 - Jack Bradbury (Alberto Becattini)
- 25 - Lynn Karp (Alberto Becattini)
- 26 - Dave Michener (Didier Ghez)
- 27 - In Memory of Vance Gerry (John Musker)
- 28 - Vance Gerry (Charles Solomon)
- 29 - Vance Gerry (Christian Renaut)
- 30 - Ron Clements and John Musker (Clay Kaytis)
