tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post2810009744988224918..comments2024-03-29T05:13:13.015-04:00Comments on Mayerson on Animation: Pinocchio Part 12AMark Mayersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-23782364683782682732012-03-14T00:08:32.790-04:002012-03-14T00:08:32.790-04:00Conventions only work when they're not used to...Conventions only work when they're not used to death.<br /><br />In 'American Tail,' for all its talk of bringing back 'golden age Disney storytelling' or all that bull, the characters (who are supposed to have lost each other in the middle of the atlantic ocean) just randomly walk around and under each other at least ten times. For most of the film, the little kid is never more than ten feet away from the parents he's trying to find; and it stops being cute and starts being infuriating.Liimlsanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14477319514152606005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-63620438208161420682007-07-03T12:17:00.000-04:002007-07-03T12:17:00.000-04:00Gary, thanks for sharing your memories.Gary, thanks for sharing your memories.Mark Mayersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-11464646458893208692007-07-03T12:03:00.000-04:002007-07-03T12:03:00.000-04:00Ford Beebe, Jr. was the co-director of "The Pastor...Ford Beebe, Jr. was the co-director of "The Pastoral Symphony" segment...<BR/><BR/>I'm saddened to learn of his death. Over the years I lost touch with him...<BR/><BR/>Back in high school... I was thrown into this new library class..., which turned out to be a media class... something new they were trying…<BR/><BR/>Well at the end of the first week our teacher turned the class over to this old guy (I was a teenager so any one over 30 was old).<BR/><BR/>Ford Beebe, Jr., went to UCI to get a degree so he could pass on his knowledge. His professors didn't like him because all his fellow students... would of course go to someone whose family worked in the industry... and like others have stated his father was one of the King of the B’s directors… I believe his uncle Lloyd was a director or DP also…<BR/><BR/>So UCI's lost was our gain... I know he did the old animated Alke Seltzer TV spots. Both the drawn ones and the stop motion... I know he's not listed as a director... but he did work on or produce with friends Charlie the Lonesome Cougar....<BR/><BR/>I should have a better memory because its funny I never watched the Wonderful World Of Disney on Sunday nights... but I did the Sunday that I met Ford... call it karma or something....<BR/><BR/>I still have some cells from I believe was a Ford car commercials… what I have are the cells of confetti floating down…<BR/><BR/>And I can still remember what he wrote in my yearbook… “Keep thinking up great stuff.” … but in reality he told me I was a talented guy who was lazy who had great ideas…<BR/><BR/>Would love to tell him that I’ve completed my fifth feature film as either a line producer or producer… and I’ve directed several music videos…<BR/><BR/>So long Ford a good friend and a better mentor…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-40313933319684106352007-06-13T12:12:00.000-04:002007-06-13T12:12:00.000-04:00Joe, this is totally news to me and it just makes ...Joe, this is totally news to me and it just makes for more questions. Ford Jr. was only at Disney for a few years. Was he an artist? After Disney, did he continue to work in the film business or in commercial art? Can you point me to any sort of info on his career?Mark Mayersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-29083905126579342352007-06-13T12:07:00.000-04:002007-06-13T12:07:00.000-04:00Methinks we have our Beebes crossed!(IMDB certainl...Methinks we have our Beebes crossed!<BR/>(IMDB certainly does!)<BR/><BR/>Ford Ingalsbe Beebe (b. 26 Nov 1888, d. 26 Nov 1978) was the writer, producer and director, while his son, Ford I. Beebe, Jr. (b. 20 Aug 1913) was the assistant director at Disney.<BR/>Unfortunately he passed away in Feb 2006 in Hawaii.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709097764879088826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-23401665175865402572007-06-13T10:07:00.000-04:002007-06-13T10:07:00.000-04:00Ford Beebe, I think, would have been an assistant ...Ford Beebe, I think, would have been an assistant director on the Pastoral Symphony, assisting Ham Luske who is also listed as a director of that sequence. The Pastoral seems to have had the highest amount of top-level "features" animators on it.<BR/><BR/>Just a little comment on this scene in Pinocchio - it's kind of strange that Jiminy tells Pinocchio to try to "be cheerful - like me!" The joke is that Jiminy *isn't* cheerful, but, y'know, Jiminy has far more reason to be cheerful as he can leave any time he wants to! :)<BR/><BR/>Speaking of Jiminy, I wonder what the "Ham" credits on the draft mean... note that this sequence is listed as "After Preview" so I suspect that the before-preview draft was in some way different - crediting the real animator(s) rather than the director (assuming Ham Luske wasn't the real animator - it would seem kind of strange if he was)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com