My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

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Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

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I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

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Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

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I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.

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Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.

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It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

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