Thor Putman
Author: John Canemaker, Walt's People: Volume 9 - Talking Disney with the Artists who Knew Him, Volume 9, 1998-11-04, Chapter 7,pp. 98-101,EN
Thor Putnam attended Stanford University with Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and James Algar, and all four men shared apartments while studying at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Each found employment at Disney in 1934-35, and Putnam became a top art director/ layout artist on Pinocchio, Fantasia’s Bald Mountain/Ave Maria segments, and many other features/television shows and two of John Canemaker’s favorite shorts of the 1950s, namely The Little House and Ben And Me.
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- 1 - Thurston Harper (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Berny Wolf (Ray Pointer)
- 3 - Fanny Rabin about Art Babbitt (John Canemaker)
- 4 - Art Babbitt (John Culhane)
- 5 - Bill Melendez (Tom Sito)
- 6 - Ken O’Connor (Mark Langer)
- 7 - Thor Putman
- 8 - Art Scott (John Culhane)
- 9 - Ken Anderson (Dave Smith)
- 10 - Ken Anderson (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 11 - Les Clark (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 12 - Jack Cutting (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 13 - Jack Cutting (Robin Allan)
- 14 - Bob Jones (Robin Allan)
- 15 - Joe Grant (Robin Allan)
- 16 - Three Disney Story Guys - (Pete Young, Fred Lucky and Vance Gerry) (Floyd Norman)
- 17 - Margaret Kerry (Jim Korkis)
- 18 - Jack Ferges (Paul F. Anderson)
- 19 - Fred Joerger (Paul F. Anderson)
- 20 - The Secret of Walt Disney Commercials (Jim Korkis)
- 21 - Paul Carlson (Michael Mallory)
- 22 - Paul Carlson (Didier Ghez)
- 23 - Just Finish that Darned Thing! (Floyd Norman)
- 24 - Victor Haboush (Didier Ghez)
- 25 - Walt Peregoy (Julie Svendsen)
- 26 - Disney’s “B” Movie (Floyd Norman)
- 27 - Frank McSavage (Alberto Becattini)
- 28 - Jack Bradbury and Mary Jim Karp (Klaus Strzyz)
- 29 - Bob Foster (Klaus Strzyz)
- 30 - Bob Foster (Alberto Becattini)
- 31 - Julie Svendsen (Didier Ghez)
- 32 - Correspondence with Ollie Johnston (Göran Broling)
- 33 - Burny Mattinson (Clay Kaytis)
- 34 - Tom Sito (Didier Ghez)
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