Dan MacManus
Few are the Disney historians who focus on the art of special effects. When they do, the names most often mentioned are Josh Meador and Cy Young, very rarely those of artists like Dan MacManus, Jack Boyd, Jack Buckley, and Ted Kierscey who followed their paths.
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In the early 1930s, MacManus worked for some live-action studios in the cutting room and doing art titles, but by the mid-’30s he was working as a commercial artist and missed show business. Having heard that Disney was hiring, he joined the Studio in 1935 as an inbetweener, and then was transferred to the Effects Department in 1938.
MacManus worked on most of Disney’s feature-length animated movies from Pinocchio to Robin Hood. He also tackled a very large number of shorts. […]
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- 1 - Ruthie Tompson (Didier Ghez)
- 2 - Walt Pfeiffer (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 3 - Shirley Temple Black (John Culhane)
- 4 - Izzy Klein (John Culhane)
- 5 - Basil Reynolds (Peter Hansen)
- 6 - Eric Larson (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 7 - John Hubley (John Culhane)
- 8 - Jules Engel (Robin Allan)
- 9 - Ed Love - at CalArts (Ed Love)
- 10 - Mike Lah - at CalArts (Mike Lah)
- 11 - Frank Thomas (J.B. Kaufman)
- 12 - Carl Nater (Dave Smith)
- 13 - John Hench - on working with Salvatore Dali on Destino (John Culhane)
- 14 - Ward Kimball (John Canemaker)
- 15 - Ward Kimball (Dave Smith)
- 16 - Frank Armitage (Didier Ghez)
- 17 - Ray Aragon (Robin Allan)
- 18 - Ray Aragon (Didier Ghez)
- 19 - Jacques Rupp (Gord Wilson)
- 20 - George Bruns (David Tietyen)
- 21 - Dale Oliver (John Canemaker)
- 22 - Iwao Takamoto (John Canemaker)
- 23 - Richard Williams (John Canemaker)
- 24 - Brad Bird (Charles Solomon)
- 25 - Don Christensen (Alberto Becattini)
- 26 - Tom Nabbe (Jim Korkis)
- 27 - Roger Broggie (Dave Smith)
- 28 - David Snyder (Didier Ghez)
- 29 - Carl Bongirno (Didier Ghez)
- 30 - Dan MacManus
- 31 - Ted Kierscey (John Culhane)
- 32 - Glen Keane (John Canemaker)
- 33 - Joe Hale (Didier Ghez)
- 34 - Mark Henn (Jérémie Noyer)
- 35 - Andreas Deja and Mark Henn (Christian Ziebarth)
- 36 - Ed Catmull (Didier Ghez)
