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Jun 15, 2023 · Ward Kimball’s first efforts as a solo animator were the insect dancers and jazz musicians in the Silly Symphony Woodland Café (1937), a hugely entertaining parody of 1930s New York café society. Kimball’s work here is perhaps what led to his work on Jiminy Cricket and later the dancing crows in Dumbo.
Kimball was Disney’s friend and confidant. In this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, award-winning author Todd James Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney animator who worked on characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter.
2 min. Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $3,000. Escalation is a 1968 animated short film, directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball. [1] It is an anti-Vietnam War cartoon mocking U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson .
Mar 4, 2016 · Ward Walrath Kimball was born on March 4, 1914, in Minneapolis, Minn. In 1934, he joined the Disney Studios staff as an inbetweener and quickly rose in the ranks to become a full-fledged animator, working on scenes in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that were dropped before the film was released.
Dec 18, 2013 · Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s, legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball, one of the studio’s vaunted Nine Old Men, created an annual Christmas card for both friends and family.The cards ...
Aug 15, 2015 · Ward Kimball’s Personal History. 1914: I was born March 4, 10 p.m. in Minneapolis, Minn., Mercy Hospital. 1915: Any other baby would have looked the same. 1918: Mother told me that my Uncle Pierre was “Fighting the Battle of Paris.”. 1919: Muskogee, Oklahoma – A shed rat bit the little finger on my left hand.
Animation by Ward Kimball (1914 - 2002), one of the famed "Nine Old Men." He was one of the most wild and creative artists at Disney.Music: "liquid jazz" by ...
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