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Working with Walt UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI JACKSON W alt Working with INTERVIEWS WITH DISNEY ARTISTS DON PERI www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2008 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2008 (cid:100) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peri, Don. Working with Walt : interviews with Disney artists / Don Peri. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-1-934110-67-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-934110-67-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Disney, Walt, 1901–1966. 2. Animators—United States—Interviews. I. Title. NC1766.U52D522008 741.5'8092273—dc22 2007031892 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available To my parents, Alice and Joe Peri, Who first introduced me to the Disney dream And to my wife, Sue, and my daughters, Julie and Emily, Who continue to share it with me. This page intentionally left blank Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [ ix ] INTRODUCTION [ xi ] EXPLANATION OF TERMS [ xxv ] Ben Sharpsteen [ 1 ] Dick Huemer [ 32 ] Clarence Nash [ 49 ] Wilfred Jackson [ 55 ] Marcellite Garner [ 83 ] Ken O’Connor [ 93 ] Floyd Gottfredson [ 109 ] Les Clark [ 119 ] Ken Anderson [ 134 ] Larry Clemmons [ 149 ] Herb Ryman [ 156 ] Jack Cutting [ 180 ] Harper Goff [ 193 ] Eric Larson [ 208 ] Don Duckwall [ 221 ] INDEX [ 239 ] Acknowledgments This book has been a labor of love for me, but without having met Ben Sharpsteen, this book would never have happened, so my first debt of gratitude is to him. My work with him encouraged me to seek out other Disney artists, and I will be forever grateful to them for the privilege and the honor of allowing me to interview them and for sharing their stories, their emotions, and their lives with me. They inspired me then and they inspire me still. Didier Ghez set this project in motion when he encouraged me to contact humanities professor Thomas Inge of Randolph-Macon College with a book proposal. Didier is an author, historian, and proprietor of one of the best web sites on Disney, disneybooks.blogspot.com. His series, Walt’s People, has fast become required reading for all those who are serious scholars of Walt Disney. Even though he and I have never met face to face, he became my champion from across the Atlantic, and this book is largely the result of his efforts. Tom Inge was very supportive of the book proposal and his recom- mendation catapulted the book from an idea to reality and for that, I am deeply in his debt. Director Seetha Srinivasan, managing editor Anne Stascavage, and editor Walter Biggins of the University Press of Mississippi have been very helpful in guiding a novice author through the steps required to ix
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