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Walt Disney The Art of Animation
Bob Thomas | Staff of the Walt Disney Studio

Walt Disney The Art of Animation

the story of the Disney Studio contribution to a new art,

Simon & Schuster (1958)
1st Edition
Hardcover
181 pages | U.S.A. | English (US)
LC Classification NC1766.U52 .D57
LC Control No. 59000862

Genre

  • Music, Stage & Screen

Subject

  • Animated Films

Plot

The story of the Disney Studio contribution to a new art. Definitive work on the liveliest of all the lively–the animated film. Bob Thomas roamed the Disney Studio, listening and conducting interviewing with the men who made the historic advances and innovations in animation. Watching the intricate processes by which a cartoon moves from the storyboard to the screen, the result is a remarkable tour behind the scenes of the magic we see on the screen.

About the Author
Robert Joseph Thomas (January 26, 1922 – March 14, 2014) was an American Hollywood film industry biographer and reporter who worked for the Associated Press from 1944. Born in San Diego, he grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a film publicist. He attended UCLA. He lived in Encino with his wife, Patricia. They had three daughters. Thomas, aged 92, died on March 14, 2014 at his home. As of 2014, he was twice listed in the Guinness World Records, for the longest career as a reporter, and for the most consecutive Academy Awards shows covered by an entertainment reporter.

The Disney Imagineers there is no specific author for this book. It was written and edited by unknown persons at the behest of Disney.