Ward Kimball at Work
Here are a few very nice images of Ward Kimball at work on Pinocchio, taken at the Hyperion studios around 1939. The left image shows him at what I believe to be a projecting Moviola, for rotoscoping film. Is that the studio intercom above the dark sides of the drawing part? Notice also the caricatures, including the drum with "Kimball's Icky Eight."
The right image has Ward at his desk. Through the window we see the grill of a parked car. On Ward's desk we see the "Revised Kimball Modelsheet" as printed in Frank and Ollie's Illusion of Life. The books on his shelf include "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine," and a Roy Williams ashtray is on his right...
The right image has Ward at his desk. Through the window we see the grill of a parked car. On Ward's desk we see the "Revised Kimball Modelsheet" as printed in Frank and Ollie's Illusion of Life. The books on his shelf include "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine," and a Roy Williams ashtray is on his right...
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posted by Hans Perk at 3:00 PM
3 Comments:
It would be interesting to know if the "cricket" toy or model on the far upper right is of Jiminy (a maquette of sorts) or something that Ward found and used as reference. It doesn't look exactly like Jiminy but the costume is close. Perhaps just an early sculpture...
I think that Jiminy is a maquette of an early version of the character.
Also the ashtray sitting on the radio is a caricture of Roy Williams.
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