Art Babbitt is an autocrat of the lightboard, a Paganini of comic movement, a master of mimicry, an Einstein of coordinated techniques, a Galileo of timing and spacing. He is a super animator, a man of lively wit and profound wisdom, especially in the area of cartoon animation. I’m certain he would prefer the goldfish incident be forgotten. It happened a short time before I started work at the Disney Studio. I have listened to several versions of the event and have tried to stitch together what seems to me a correct and logical report of the incident. […]
