Joe Hale
The history of Disney shorts projects from the ’50s and of Disney animation from the ’60s to the early ’80s has still to be studied in detail. The career of Joe Hale—a tremendously talented layout and story artist, who also happened to be The Black Cauldron’s producer—allows us to venture into those hidden fields and to live the traumatic transition of the Eisner / Katzenberg era through his eyes.
Born in 1925 he was hired by the Studio in 1951 to work on Peter Pan and soon became Ollie Johnston’s assistant. He witnessed Walt’s first attempts at defining Disneyland, worked on Ward Kimball’s projects from the ’50s, on Walt’s TV lead-ins, on educational shorts, and on several of the movies that combined live action and animation.
Among the weirdest projects he tackled was the short-lived TV show “The Mouse Factory” directed by Ward Kimball, and the abandoned projects Mistress Masham’s Repose and Dufus, a story inspired by Catcher in the Rye. […]
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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 (John Culhane)
- 31 - Ted Kierscey (John Culhane)
- 32 - Glen Keane (John Canemaker)
- 33 - Joe Hale
- 34 - Mark Henn (Jérémie Noyer)
- 35 - Andreas Deja and Mark Henn (Christian Ziebarth)
- 36 - Ed Catmull (Didier Ghez)
