Bill Cottrell
Bill Cottrell: I don’t think I met Roy for some weeks when I started in the Studio. By my recollection, I started on February 14th, 1929.
Bob Thomas: ’29? You must have been a wee broth of a boy.
BC: There were about ten people in the organization at that time. I have a list of them someplace. Roy had an office at the Studio, I think, but his main office was at Tec-Art Studios, on Melrose, I think it was. I went over there later after a while. The Studio had a lot of stationary sets. It seems to me that there were mostly sets of France. European houses and residences, small towns. They were leased out to studios making five-day features and all. The Disney organization, the Disney Company had one or two sound trucks in those days. They were for hire or rent. They recorded sound at his command, and Disney had a sound truck and they used to rent their sound equipment, their sound mixer and sound engineer on a day-to-day basis. Roy was the one that, I believe, made the negotiations for their contracts. When they made a feature in five days there wasn’t a really big contract. The inside workings of a studio were all new to me and I was fascinated with what went on.
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- 1 - Bill Cottrell
- 2 - Bill Justice and Bob Broughton (Bob Thomas)
- 3 - Ken OConnor (Bob Thomas)
- 4 - Ken OConnor (EMC West)
- 5 - Armand Bigle with Betty Bigle (Bob Thomas)
- 6 - Betty Bigle and Gérald Bigle on Armand Bigle (Didier Ghez)
- 7 - Dominique Bigle on Armand Bigle (Didier Ghez)
- 8 - Pierre Nicolas (Didier Ghez, 1991)
- 9 - Pierre Nicolas (Didier Ghez, 2008)
- 10 - Antonio Bertini (Bob Thomas)
- 11 - To the Top in Ten Years with the Family Formula (Kinematograph Weekly)
- 12 - Disney in the Scandinavian Countries 1928-1945 (Are Myklebust)
- 13 - Andy Thewlis (Bob Thomas)
- 14 - Gunnar Mansson (Bob Thomas)
- 15 - Horst Koblischek (Bob Thomas)
- 16 - Dan Gonzales on Manuel Gonzales (François Willot, Armando Botto)
- 17 - Irving Ludwig (Bob Thomas)
- 18 - The Music of Treasure Island (John Huntley)
- 19 - Herb Hughes (Didier Ghez)
- 20 - Royal "Mickey" Clark (Jim Korkis & Didier Ghez)
- 21 - Royal "Mickey" Clark (Bob Thomas)
- 22 - Marvin Davis and Marjorie Davis (Bob Thomas)
- 23 - Marty Sklar (Bob Thomas)
- 24 - Dick Nunis (Bob Thomas)
- 25 - Jack Lindquist (Bob Thomas)
- 26 - Craig McNair Wilson (Jim Korkis)
- 27 - Kym Murphy (Didier Ghez)
- 28 - Chris Runco (Didier Ghez)
