This interview with Ward Kimball was conducted by Steve Hulett in Ward’s sunny front yard. His memories of Fred Moore and Norman Ferguson are particularly fascinating.
Steve Hulett: You mentioned cycle animation in the early days at Disney . . .
Ward Kimball: It wasn’t so much cycle animation, because that puts it in the corner of Hanna-Barbera. It still had to have all those nuances and changes. If you had a guy running along, you had to make sure it didn’t look like a cycle to Walt. While the feet may be working as a cycle, maybe the camera is trucking in, or the character is slowly looking around as he’s running. So there wasn’t a cycle. […]
