Please note: if an earlier link doesn't work, it may have changed following an update! Check the Category Labels in the side-bar on the right! There you can find animator drafts for sixteen complete Disney features and eighty-six shorts,
as well as Action Analysis Classes and many other vintage animation documents!

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Dumbo and other drafts...

...or getting around the limited posts shown when clicking on a label.

Michael Barrier, who unwittingly drove my desire for historical information on animation through the invaluable magazine Funnyworld when I first came in contact with it through my mentor Børge Ring in 1978 (where I also saw my first animation drafts) notes on his great site that "unfortunately, I haven't figured out to get to the earliest installments, but a full page of later posts of the draft comes up when you click on the label "Dumbo.""

If you look to the right column, there you find the "Archives" links.
In the case of Dumbo, the first posts are from April 2010, so pressing that link will show them.

This should give you access to most of the 630 earlier postings. Whenever there are too many posts to be able to be shown within a month, this can cause the last ones to "drop off," which has annoyed me for quite some time. In this Blogger template, I do not know how to add an "Older posts" link, and I tried updating to the newer template, but I had problems running the Javascript necessary for te conversions.

John V. wrote a very helpful comment: "As I eventually discovered, if some of the posts "drop off", then go to the last post displayed (this can only be done, I think, by clicking on the "comments" link, then on the title of the post) and on the right hand side of the page there will be links to the previous few posts. Then you can just continue to follow the posts back by clicking on each individual post title."

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Prod. 2138 - The Sword in the Stone  - Seq. 12.0 - "Ending" (II)

More Milt Kahl and Hal King, a scene by Fred Hellmich, and the final scenes by Ollie Johnston and Hal Ambro...
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This ends the draft for The Sword in the Stone!
Remember where you saw it first, folks...

Did you already check out the other feature drafts here?
- Pinocchio
- The Three Caballeros
- Alice in Wonderland
- Sleeping Beauty
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians
And did you check out any of my 75 Disney short film drafts?

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Prod. 2138 - The Sword in the Stone  - Seq. 12.0 - "Ending" (I)

Animation by Dick Lucas, Eric Larson, Eric Cleworth, Cliff Nordberg, Milt Kahl, Hal King and a scene by John Sibley.
This FINAL draft dated 7/25/1963...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Prod. 2138 - The Sword in the Stone  - Seq. 14.0 - "Wart Becomes Kay's Squire - Off to London"

This Seq. 14 is wedged inbetween Seq. 10 and Seq. 12 ("Ending").
Animation by John Ewing, Eric Cleworth, Hal Ambro, Dick Lucas, John Lounsbery, Hal King, and the last half by Ollie Johnston.
This FINAL draft dated 7/24/1963...
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Comments anyone?

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

Prod. 2138 - The Sword in the Stone  - Seq. 10.0 - "Wizard's Duel" (II)

John Lounsbery, John Sibley, Hal Ambro, Cliff Nordberg, Eric Cleworth, Eric Larson, Ollie Johnston, Hal King and Dick Lucas finish the Wizard's Duel...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Prod. 2138 - The Sword in the Stone  - Seq. 10.0 - "Wizard's Duel" (I)

Here is one of the most shown sequences of The Sword in the Stone.
The first part of the Wizard's Duel was animated by Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Hal King, Eric Cleworth, Hal Ambro, Walt Stanchfield, John Lounsbery, John Sibley and John Ewing.
This draft of 7/22/1963...
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Back Stateside, folks!

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