Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXX) - Seq. 12 (Ave Maria)

Directed by Wilfred "Jaxon" Jackson, assisted by Jacques (Roberts). Layout by Terrell Stapp and Thor Putnam. This draft dated 10/16/40. (Final page: Directed by Sam Armstrong, layout Blair/Plummer, dated 10/2/40).

A John McManus effects tour-de-force. I always liked the story that the last scene was delivered to the cinema on the afternoon of the premiere, after there having been an earthquake and no time to re-shoot it...

This, of course, concludes the draft for Prod. 2004, Walt Disney's Fantasia. I hope you enjoyed it, and maybe learned something new!
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Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXIX) - Seq. 11 (Night on Bald Mountain)

Directed by Wilfred "Jaxon" Jackson, assisted by Jacques (Roberts). Layout by Terrell Stapp and Thor Putnam. This draft dated 10/3/40.

Character animation by Bill Tytla, Bill Shull, Bob Carlson, Les Novros and (Don) Patterson.

Effects by Cornett Wood, Frank Follmer, John Reed, John McManus, Sandy Strother, Ed Aardal, Don Tobin, Josh Meador, Milt Shaffer, Miles Pike, John Tucker and Jack Harbaugh.

This is, of course, one of Bill Tytla's masterpieces, Chernobog on the mountain top. Actually, this is much the same unit as the Stromboli sequence in Pinocchio and several sequences in Dumbo: Jaxon, Roberts, Stapp and Tytla...

Funny how scene 20 ia credited to its footage. Must be a typo...

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXVIII) - Seq. 11A (Interim Orchestra)

Directed by Sam Armstrong, assisted by Lloyd Richardson. Layout by Lee Blair and Elmer Plummer. This draft dated 10/2/40.

Deems Taylor's introduction to the last section, comprised of Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXVII) - Seq. 10.4 (Dance of the Hours: Alligator Ballet--Night)

Directed by T. Hee, assisted by Larry Lansburgh. Layout by Ken O'Connor. This draft dated 9/9/40.

Character animation by John Lounsbery, Hicks Lokey, Preston Blair, Howard Swift, Norm Tate, Hugh Fraser, Art Elliott and Harvey Toombs.

Effects by Cornett Wood, George Rowley, Brad Case, Jack Gayek, Jim Will, Ed Aardal, George DeBeeson, John Reed, [John?] Fitzpatrick (for the ? see a previous posting) and Jerome Brown.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXVII) - Seq. 10.3 (Dance of the Hours: Elephant Ballet--Evening)

Directed by T. Hee, assisted by Larry Lansburgh. Layout by Ken O'Connor. This draft dated 9/9/40.

Character animation by [Ray] Patterson, Harvey Toombs, Howard Swift, Frank Grundeen, Hicks Lokey and Grant Simmons.

Effects by John Reed, Brad Case, Jerome Brown, Cornett Wood, Vernon Witt, Josh Meador, George Rowley and Ed Aardal.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXVI) - Seq. 10.2 (Dance of the Hours: Hippo Ballet--Afternoon)

Directed by T. Hee, assisted by Larry Lansburgh. Layout by Ken O'Connor. This draft dated 9/9/40.

Character animation by Howard Swift, Preston Blair, Van Kaufman and Norm Ferguson.

Effects by Cornett Wood, Brad Case, Jack Gayek, George DeBeeson, Jim Will and Ed Aardal.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXV) - Seq. 10.1 (Dance of the Hours: Ostrich Ballet--Morning)

Directed by T. Hee, assisted by Larry Lansburgh. Layout by Ken O'Connor. This draft dated 9/9/40.

Character animation by Howard Swift, Jerry Hathcock, Hugh Fraser, Norm Tate and George Nicholas. Effects by Cornett Wood, Brad Case and Jack Gayek.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXIV) - Seq. 10 (Interim Orchestra)

Directed by Sam Armstrong, assisted by Lloyd Richardson. Layout by Lee Blair and Elmer Plummer. This draft dated 10/2/40.

Deems Taylor introduces the "Dance of the Hours" segment...

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXIII) - Seq. 4.5 (Beethoven: Fifth Movement: Sunset)

Directed by Ham Luske and Ford L. Beebe (Jr.), assisted by Erwin Verity. Layout by Hugh Hennesy. This draft dated 7/24/40.

Character animation by John Elliotte, Bernie Wolf, Bob Youngquist, Murray McClellan, Jack Campbell, Bill Justice, Milt Neil, Don Lusk, Ward Kimball, Don Towsley, Sewell (see previous) and [Ross?] Wetzel.

Effects by Jack Gayek, Fitzpatrick (see previous), George Rowley, John Reed, Don Tobin and Sandy Strother (where did that last S come from?).

I am uncertain about the function of Ambi Paliwoda, Art Palmer, and Walt Kelly (misspelled Kelley). They should all rank as character animators, but their "position" on this draft is as effects animator.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXII) - Seq. 4.4 (Beethoven: Fourth Movement: Storm)

Directed by Ham Luske and Jim Handley, assisted by Jack Bruner. Layout by Ken Anderson. This draft dated 7/23/40.

Character animation by Bill Justice, Fred Moore, Eric Larson, Walt Kelly, Bernie Wolf, Lynn Karp, Art Babbitt, Fred Madison, Don Towsley, Bob Youngquist, Sewell (see yesterday), Jim Moore, Ward Kimball and Ambi Paliwoda.

Effects by Bob Martsch, Brad Case, Jim Will, Jack Harbaugh, Josh Meador, George Rowley, Jack Gayek, Don Tobin, Cornett Wood, Jerome Brown and Harry Hamsel.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XXI) - Seq. 4.3 (Beethoven: Third Movement)

Directed by Ham Luske and Jim Handley, assisted by Jack Bruner. Layout by Ken Anderson. This draft dated 9/16/40.

Character animation by Jack Bradbury, Sewell (see note), Lynn Karp, Murray McClellan, Walt Kelly, Bernie Wolf, Eric Larson, Bill Justice, Bob Youngquist, Ward Kimball, Milt Neil, Don Lusk and John Elliotte.

Effects by Ugo D'Orsi, Frank Follmer, Jack Gayek, Paul Kossoff, George Rowley, (see note 2) Fitzpatrick, Cornett Wood, George DeBeeson, Ed Aardal, Miles Pike and John Reed.

(Note: Alberto Becattini has a John Sewall who was animator during this era, and, of course Hazel Sewell, Walt's sister-in-law who married Bill Cottrell, and who was in charge of Ink and Paint in the early Mickey years. Alberto has a question mark behind animation in her name. I must admit I lean towards John Sewall here. They could have spelled his name wrong, based on Hazel being well known around the studio...)

(Note 2: Alberto mentions only Art Fitzpatrick, who was Babbitt's assistant. But a contemporary list of employees who took part in the 1941 strike that I have a copy of (and promised not to post) lists an effects animator called Paul Fitzpatrick. It could be a typo, of course, but more likely our effects guy here is this Paul, who at the time of the strike made a weekly $47.50, while e.g. Don Tobin made $76.50... Oh, by the way, the same list names John Sewall and a person working in color called Claudia Sewell. No other Sewell.)

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XX) - Seq. 4.2 (Beethoven: Second Movement)

Directed by Ham Luske and Ford L. Beebe (Jr.), assisted by Erwin Verity. Layout by Hugh Hennesy. This draft dated 9/11/40.

Character animation by Jack Campbell, Ollie Johnston, Bill Justice, Milt Neil, Bernie Wolf, John Elliotte, Bob Youngquist, Fred Moore, Jim Moore (unless this is a typo), Art Palmer and Amby Paliwoda.

Effects by Harry Hamsel, Don Tobin, Josh Meador, George DeBeeson, Jim Will, Frank Follmer, Miles Pike, Paul Kossoff, Cornett Wood, Jack Gayek, Dan McManus, George Rowley, Art Fitzpatrick, Brad Case and John Reed.

Ward Kimball called this "a candy-box sequence..."

[I decided against a typo for Jim Moore for the simple reason that if it had been Fred Moore all of it, they would simply have written "Moore." Adding the "F" implies that there also is another, "J." Elementary, my dear Watson...]

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XIX) - Seq. 4.1 (Beethoven: First Movement)

Directed by Ham Luske and Ford L. Beebe (Jr.), assisted by Erwin Verity. Layout by Ken Anderson. This draft dated 9/6/40.

Animation by Lynn Karp, Walt Kelly, Bill Justice, Bernie Wolf, Jack Bradbury, Eric Larson, Murray McClellan, Don Towsley and Fred Madison.
Effects by Jack Gayek, Ed Aardal, George Rowley, Brad Case, Josh Meador, Cornett Wood, Vernon Witt, Dan McManus, Harry Hamsel, Don Tobin, Frank Follmer and Ugo D'Orsi.

Prod. 2004 - Fantasia (XVIII) - Seq. 4 (Interim Orchestra: Beethoven)

Directed by Sam Armstrong, assisted by Lloyd Richardson. Layout by Lee Blair and Elmer Plummer. This draft dated 10/2/40.

Here is a case where the numbering of my Morgue draft differs from the copy I have had since around 1980. The sequence I posted yesterday in the first draft is called 02.0 and continues to what is supposed to be page 1 of seq. 4. Since my copy is missing page 71 (Seq. 4 page 1) I have scanned the other one to make up for the missing pages. Therefor the repeat of Josh Meador's last scenes with Mr. Soundtrack. The next page (72) shows Seq. 4 page 2 - in the other draft ot is Seq. 02.0 page 16...

I was quite surprised to see the difference. My Morgue draft is also ordered by Seq. number, not by the order in the film. It even has a sequence in typewriter onion-skin, instead of mimeograph or photo-copy. I will have to see if they have more differences when I get the time to do so...