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• Toon Thursday : Mermaids, donuts and musical concrete

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman is back with a trio of wild & wacky stories from his days at the Mouse House. And did we mention that Mr. Fun now has his very own blog ? Read More... Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, books, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, 1960s, Mouse House, Glendale, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, Imagineering, Disneyland, theme park, Disney Legend, Toontown, "Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation" , cataroo.com, "How the Grinch Stole Disney" , Afrokids.com, "Son of Faster Cheaper", Animation Building, animators, Bob's Big Boy , artwork , Disney history , Walt Disney Productions , 1940s , Burbank lot , Jim Hill , Floyd Norman, JHM , Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, JimHillMedia, "Favorites" list , shameless plugging , column, Disney's Animation Building , Disney art , crazy, creative , corporate , rock band, album, "Music Concrete" , electronic music, space epic , F-Wing , old Animation Building, coffee machine, coffee maker , vending machine, donuts, donut, donut machine , ants, ant, Disney artist , Disney staffers , gags, Jack Fergus, sculptor , attraction, sculpture , B-Wing, mermaid , Disney backlot , boxing movie , Dopey Drive, movers, moving crew , book

• Caught in "The Parent Trap" -- Part II

  In the final installment of his new two-part series, Disney Legend Floyd Norman recalls what it was like to be on the Burbank lot while this 1961 David Swift movie was being filmed Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: Disney, movies, Walt Disney, Hollywood, Burbank, Animation Building, employees , screening rooms , director, "The Parent Trap" , Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills , "Pollyanna", A Walt Disney Production , Walt Disney Productions , writer/director , David Swift, Bud Swift , 1961, "Petticoats and Blue Jeans" , sound stage, Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith, Leo G Carroll, Nancy Kulp , Frank DeVol , Stage Two, special effects , special photographic technique , camera optics , sodium matte process , Burbank lot , actor, matte system , special camera lens , Alexander Korda , Eustace Lycett , optical equipment , special effects wizards, Ruth McDevitt , Disney Princess , Belle, John Mills, rough cut, effects shots, Bill Justice , title sequence , Sherman brothers , Tommy Sands, Disney movie, twin girls, twins, identical twins , twin daughters

• Caught in "The Parent Trap" -- Part I

  In the first installment of this new two-part series, Disney Legend Floyd Norman describes what it was like to visit the set of this 1961 David Swift film Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, "101 Dalmatians", 1960s, Hollywood, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, Disney Legend, D-Wing , Animation Building, Frank Thomas, Disney Commissary , California, television show, director, Disney history , "The Parent Trap" , 1960, Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills , "Pollyanna", A Walt Disney Production , Walt Disney Productions , writer/director , Disney geek, Bud Swift , Minneapolis, Minnesota , 1940s , United States Air Force , radio , comedy writing , 1949, television , scriptwriting, screenplay, Philco Television Playhouse , "Playhouse 90" , "The Rifleman" , "Wagon Train" , television series , "Mr. Peepers" , Wally Cox, "Jamie" , 1961, "Petticoats and Blue Jeans" , sound stage, Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith, Leo G Carroll, Charlie Ruggles, Nancy Kulp , Frank DeVol , on location, Northern California, Stage Two, Director of Photography , Hollywood veteran , Lucien Ballard , Old Hollywood, special effects , screen double, special photographic technique , camera optics , sodium matte process , compositing , on-camera double, redhead , Burbank lot , studio commissary, Robert Keith , Julie Andrews , actor, press agent , handler, motion picture

• Toon Tuesday: Disney's "B" Movie

  Long before Jerry Seinfeld and DreamWorks began talking about making "Bee Movie," this subject was alive & well at Walt Disney Studios Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:00 AM | 20 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Hollywood, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, Bill Peet, Animation Building

• Toon Tuesday : Disney's Night School

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman reminisces about the after-hours animation classes that used to be offered on the Disney lot back in the 1950s Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, traditional animation, books, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, "Sleeping Beauty", 1950s, Mouse House, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, "Walt was right", Disney Legend, "Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation" , John Cawley, cataroo.com, "How the Grinch Stole Disney" , Afrokids.com, "Son of Faster Cheaper", ABC, Animation Building, Frank Thomas, California, California Institute of the Arts , Cal Arts, Sheridan College, 1956, "Disneyland" , shorts , Nine Old Men , Chouinard Art Institute , Los Angeles , young artists , animators, layout artists, background painters , night school, instruction, classmates , employees , screening rooms , Joshua Meador, effects animators , painter, palette knife , brush, True-Life Adventure , Jack Foster , Ken O'Connor , animation artist, design , "Fantasia", "Dance of the Hours" , artwork , development , pencil test, John Sparey, mentoring program , Ollie Johnston , chops , director, Disney history , Bob McCrea , bankruptcy, 1941 , 1941 animators strike , animators strike , Bill Eigle , layoffs , master class , after-hours

• Toon Tuesday : Home for the Holidays

  As a special holiday treat, Disney Legend Floyd Norman takes JHM readers on a tour of Walt Disney Studios circa 1957 Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, "Sleeping Beauty", 1950s, Burbank, Disneyland, Disney Legend, holidays, 1957 , Christmas, ABC, Milt Kahl , D-Wing , Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol", Animation Building, Eyvind Earle , Ralph Hulett, Frank Thomas, key assistant, Dale Oliver , Glogg, Ink and Paint Building, Grace Bailey, Disney Commissary , North Korea , South Korea, Korea, US Army, 1st Calvary Division, DMZ , California

• Toon Tuesday : A Disney kind of guy

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman looks back on the life & career of the late Bruce Gordon. A funny, brilliant and irreverant Imagineer & Disney historian that Floyd believes had a lot in common with the man Bruce so admired, Walt Disney Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, books, Walt Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering, Imagineer, Imagineering, Bruce Gordon, The Walt Disney Family Museum, Walt Disney Family Museum, The Presidio, Presidio, Diane Disney Miller, "Inside the Dream: The Personal Story of Walt Disney", Disneyland, Apple , Macintosh, Disney Macintosh User Group, "Mickey's Mac Club", "The Mac Club", Macintosh computer, mouse pad, cloisonné pin , Apple logo, Disney logo, David Mumford, postcards, "Disneyland -- The Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on the Earth" , Disney Press, Anaheim, Tomorrowland 2055, Tomorrowland 1998, desktop publishing, software, theme park, submarine , Submarine Voyage, ride, "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", "Finding Nemo", "Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage", "Walt was right", Disney Legend, Toontown, "Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation" , John Cawley, cataroo.com, "How the Grinch Stole Disney" , Afrokids.com, "Son of Faster Cheaper"

• Toon Tuesday : The Failure Factor

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman returns with an object lesson for all you creative types out there. How falling on your face every now & then can actually play an important part in your growth as an artist and as a person Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:00 PM | 7 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Hollywood, John Lasseter, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Kansas City, "Toy Story", failure, CFI, "The Lion King", "The Jungle Book", "Aladdin", Bill Peet, Rudyard Kipling