Who was this animator? He appears to be working on the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp (Click for full crew list on IMDB). Can you name him?
You can find his picture alongside ten million others in Google’s new image archive of Life magazines photos. A staggering ninety seven percent of the pictures on show were never published and are now visible for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Be prepared to discover some real gems!
Here’s a picture of some young folk out for a run. (Click to enlarge, as ever.)
Run for it!
Here’s the link to Google’s LIFE Magazine Archive
Via Art Knowledge News
And if you know who that animator is, please drop a message in the comment box below. Thanks!
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I’m almost positive that’s Ward Kimball
@Ladytink_534: That was my first thought too. However, his name does not appear on the IMDB cast & crew list. Maybe it was a studio PR set up using Ward, because he was good at gurning for the camera…
Thoughts?
@Ladytink_534: After a bit of research, it seems that you were on the right track… In the comments on one of Mark Mayerson’s posts (mayersononanimation.blogspot.com November 20th 2008, 101 Dalmations part 21) in which David Nethery said: “The reason I remember that Sibley, Carlson, and Justice worked on the Siamese Cats is because I read it in an interview that Michael Barrier did with Ward Kimball. Apparently Kimball did some early work on the siamese cats which was not ultimately used in the movie and Michael Barrier mentions in a parenthetical comment that the draft credits John Sibley, Bob Carlson, and Bill Justice with those scenes .”
I guess Kimball never got the credit he should have had in IMDB….
It’s a young Mao Tse-tung, you can’t see his wart because the shadow under his lip hides it.
That’s probably why no one figured it out.
I’ve heard that Imdb does that often on older things
Felix – You are talking Tung in cheek.