Bill Hurtz
Author: Mark Langer, Walt's People: Volume 24: Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 24, 1991-05-27, Chapter 5,pp. 57-74,EN
Mark Langer: How did you hear about [Dumbo]?
Bill Hurtz: I was working at Disney’s, and I was Art Babbitt’s assistant at the time. We had finished our work on Fantasia. I had started with Art on Pinocchio and then we moved to Fantasia.
ML: So you worked on the “Dance of the Mushrooms”?
BH: That’s right. Then Art did the stork in Dumbo. And then I was moved from Art’s unit to Freddie Moore’s unit to become a junior animator. I worked with Fred Moore as both as an assistant and junior animator on the balance of Dumbo.
ML: So you worked on Timothy the Mouse?
BH: That’s right.
ML: Was Dumbo originally meant to be a short? I found some evidence of that.
BH: I’ve no idea.
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- 2 - Jack Campbell [biography] (Steven Hartley)
- 3 - Van Kaufman (Mark Langer)
- 4 - Ward Kimball (Mark Langer)
- 5 - Bill Hurtz
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- 7 - Fini (Josephine) Rudiger-Littlejohn (Helmut G. Asper)
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- 11 - Burny Mattinson (EMC West)
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- 18 - Marty Sklar (Chuck Schmidt)
- 19 - Marty Sklar (Michael Broggie)
- 20 - Joe Fowler (Jay Horan)
- 21 - Rock Hall (Jim Korkis)
- 22 - Pat Burke (Alain Littaye)
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