Prod. 2521 - The Small One (VI) - Section 6 - Horse market and auctioneer
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Cliff Nordberg's auctioneer works well, though not a masterpiece - and the business isn't as entertaining as the three merchants. It is a strange mixture of underplayed over-animation - somehow a sign that he tried to get the best out of very little. Of the boy-and-donkey animators, John Pomeroy definitely has the upper hand - and the best material. Chuck Harvey and Ed Gombert's scenes are not much more than head-turns. Don Bluth and Bill Hajee's crowds are serviceable, and Randy Cartwright's two scenes are less angular than the scenes around them, which is strangely pleasing...
[Addition 11/18/2020] John Musker let me know that Brad Bird and he animated about 70-80 feet of this section each, but they were told by production manager Don Duckwall that, since this was less than the needed 100 feet, the scenes were credited to Cliff Nordberg! They were not happy...
posted by Hans Perk at 10:00 AM
2 Comments:
Indeed, the auctioneer isn't as entertaining as the merchants, but it's still a great performance.
Many of the Nordberg scenes seem much quicker and more livley that they contrast the other animators. That seems to have been his trademark selling point for years!
Cliff told me he was excited about doing these scenes. He had been stuck doing animated titles for features and other less than challenging jobs and he said this was a nice change. He was a great guy to talk with.
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