Quite a few years ago I got a call from Ollie Johnston, and he asked me if I could swing by his home and bring a few Fred Moore drawings with me. (I had purchased those from Ollie a while back.)
This was for a special occasion: Fred Moore's granddaughter would visit the next day to film an interview with Frank and Ollie about her grandfather Fred Moore. And Ollie wanted her to see some of Fred's sketches to show how great of an artist he was.
She arrived with a student friend of hers from Santa Barbara, where both studied fashion design at the local university. And this is what she was wearing that day. A printed T-shirt with one of Fred's girl drawings. She said that she owned this sketch and a few others. But on the whole her family did not have much of Fred's art.
It turned out to be a fun afternoon, listening to Frank and Ollie as they told stories about how much Fred meant to them. I would love to see that video recording today, if it still exists.
What a wonderful anecdote! I wish we could all have access to it, if possible!
ReplyDeleteI recently purchased WALT DISNEY'S NINE MORE OLD MEN Flipbooks, edited by Pete Docter, which pay tribute to the outstanding work of Ub Iwerks, Art Babbitt, Bill Tytla, John Sibley, Hal King, Grim Natwick, Norm Ferguson, Freddie Moore and Ham Luske. Do you think a book similar to THE NINE OLD MEN: LESSONS, TECHNIQUES, AND INSPIRATION FROM DISNEY'S GREAT ANIMATORS could see the light of day on these animators or others, such as Retta Scott or Cliff Nordberg?
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