John Hench interview
Author: Charles Solomon, Walt's People: Volume 21: Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 21, 1988-05-05, Chapter 7,pp. 77-79,EN
Charles Solomon: You’ve said that Mickey predates Walt?
John Hench: Mickey is an old concept, but he’s been fleshed out. I think he should be recognized as a fertility symbol or a life symbol. I think you can find the beginnings of Mickey in the Stone Age carvings, that are what, 25,000 years old? You can find the beginning of this kind of symbol in the Stone Age carvings that were known as the Venus of Willendorf. It’s a series of circular forms joined together in a certain way to symbolize life. I think that that’s what the word “fertility” meant when people called it a fertility symbol. I tried to explain that to a series of doctors, but I never got a rise out of them at all.
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Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - The Diaries and Letters of Ferdinand Horvath (Ferdinand Horvath)
- 2 - A Short Autobiography by Ken Peterson (Ken Peterson)
- 3 - The Letters of Bob Givens to Hardie Gramatky (Bob Givens)
- 4 - The Letters of Sylvia Holland (Sylvia Holland)
- 5 - Tyrus Wong interview (Michael Barrier)
- 6 - John Hench interview (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 7 - John Hench interview
- 8 - Marc Davis interview (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 9 - Alice Davis interview (EMC West)
- 10 - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn interview (David Tietyen)
- 11 - Floyd Norman interview (Jim Korkis)
- 12 - Stacey Hartley, daughter of Paul R. Hartley (Didier Ghez)
- 13 - Bill Cottrell interview (Jay Horan)
- 14 - Lillian Disney, Diane Disney Miller, Jenny Miller interview - Recorded in October 1982 at EPCOT in Florida (Bob Allen, Jim Korkis (transcript))
- 15 - Glen Keane iInterview (Charles Solomon)
- 16 - Darrell Van Citters interview (Didier Ghez)
