Jack Ferges
Author: Paul F. Anderson, Walt's People: Volume 9 - Talking Disney with the Artists who Knew Him, Volume 9, 1994-10-30, Chapter 18,pp. 188-208,EN
The giant who built tiny marvels, Jack Ferges was, according to his colleagues, “a big man with a big heart who knew how to create beautiful miniature models and soon became a legend of Imagineering.”
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Like Blaine Gibson, Jack Ferges was an animator who sculpted as a hobby. While at WED, Jack was both a sculptor and a model-maker, handling such varied projects as Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, Journey into Imagination, the Jungle Cruise, the Country Bear Jamboree, and under the direction of Rolly Crump, the unrealized Dumbo’s Circusland project. His last project was Maelstrom for the Norway Pavilion at Epcot and he retired around 1987.
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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 (John Canemaker)
- 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
- 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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