Ward Kimball
- Visuelle Effekte
- 4. März 1914 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- 8. Juli 2002
Biografie
While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than realistic human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things differently. Because of this, Walt Disney called Ward a genius in the book The Story Of Walt Disney. While there were many talented animators at Disney, Ward's efforts stand out as especially unique.Kimball created several classic Disney characters including the Crows in Dumbo; Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland; the Mice and Lucifer the Cat from Cinderella; and Jiminy Cricket fromPinocchio. He also animated the famous "Three Caballeros" musical number from the Disney film of the same name.In 1953, Kimball became a director and was responsible for the Academy Award-winning short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, and three Disney television shows about outer space that put the United States into the space program. He received anAcademy Award for the short animated cartoon It's Tough to Be a Bird.Ward Kimball was profiled by the Academy Award-winning producer Jerry Fairbanks in his Paramount Pictures film short series Unusual Occupations. This 35mm Magnacolor film short was released theatrically in 1944 and focused on Kimball's backyard railroad and full sized locomotive.Kimball was also a jazz trombonist. He founded and led the seven-piece Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, in which he played trombone. The band made at least 13 LP records and toured clubs, college campuses and jazz festivals from the 1940s to early 1970s. Kimball once said that Walt Disney permitted the second career as long as it did not interfere with his animation work.Kimball continued to work at Disney up until the early 1970s, working on the Disney anthology television series, being one of the writers for Babes in Toyland, creating animation for Mary Poppins, directing the animation for Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and working on titles for feature films such as The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin and Million Dollar Duck. His last staff work for Disney was producing and directing the Disney TV show The Mouse Factory. He continued to do various projects on his own, even returning to Disney to do some publicity tours. Additionally, Kimball worked on an attraction for Disney's EPCOT Center called The World Of Motion.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Micky: Die Geschichte einer Maus · Selbst
- Apollo: Missionen zum Mond · Selbst
- Waking Sleeping Beauty · Selbst
- Das Making Of von Pinocchio: Auf der Leinwand zum Leben erweckt · Selbst
- Die Pixar Story · Ward Kimball (archive footage)
- From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men · Selbst
- From Rags to Riches: The Making of Cinderella · Selbst
- The Cinderella That Almost Was · Selbst
- Zauberhafte Märchenwelt 6 · Ward Kimball (archive footage) (uncredited)
- A Wish Came True: The Making of 'Pinocchio' · Selbst
- The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature · Selbst
- The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' · Selbst
- Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece · Selbst
- It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story · Selbst
- Magic Movie · The IRS Chief
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town · Selbst
- DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues · Regie
- Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life · Selbst
- From Fantasia to Fantasyland · Selbst
- The Mouse Factory · Idee
- Die tollkühne Hexe in ihrem fliegenden Bett · Animation Director
- Dad... Can I Borrow the Car? · Produktion, Regie
- Es ist schwer, ein Vogel zu sein · Bird Fancier, Regie
- The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show · Regie
- Pacifically Peeking · Animation
- Escalation · Regie
- A Salute to Alaska · Animation Director
- Scrooge McDuck and Money · Animation
- Mary Poppins · Animation
- Fly With Von Drake · Animation
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Selbst
- Aufruhr im Spielzeugland · Buch
- Eyes in Outer Space · Regie, Produktion
- Disneyland '59 · Selbst
- Mars and Beyond · Regie
- Walt Disney's Where Do the Stories Come From? · Selbst
- Man and the Moon · Selbst, Regie
- Man in Space · Selbst, Regie
- The Disneyland Story · Selbst
- The Wonderful World of Disney · Regie
- Die Musikstunde · Regie, Animation
- Melody · Animation, Regie
- Peter Pans heitere Abenteuer · Animation, Animation Director
- Alice im Wunderland · Animation
- Operation Wonderland · Selbst
- One Hour in Wonderland · Selbst
- Cinderella · Animation Director
- Die Abenteuer von Ichabod und Taddäus Kröte · Animation, Animation Director
- Pecos Bill · Animation
- Musik, Tanz und Rhythmus · Animation
- Fröhlich, frei, Spaß dabei · Animation Director
- Willie the Operatic Whale · Animation
- Peter und der Wolf · Animation
- Heißer Kampf auf kaltem Eis · Animation
- Drei Caballeros · Animation
- The Pelican and the Snipe · Animation
- Das kleine Hühnchen · Animation
- Reason and Emotion · Animation
- Ein Pogo-Stab für alle Fälle · Animation
- Education for Death · Animation
- The Spirit of '43 · Animation
- Wie man Baseball spielt · Animation
- Dumbo · Animation Director
- Die schmucken Neunziger · Ward (voice) (uncredited), Animation
- Der Drache wider Willen · Ward Kimball, Animation
- Der kleine Wirbelwind · Animation
- Fantasia · Animation
- Pinocchio · Animation, Animation Director
- Donald auf Prominentenjagd · Animation
- Mother Goose Goes Hollywood · Animation
- Ferdinand der Stier · Animation
- Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge · Animation
- Woodland Café · Animation
- More Kittens · Animation
- Toby Schildkröt schlägt sie alle · Animation
- Elmar Elefant · Animation Production Assistant
- Pluto vor Gericht · Animation
- Die Schildkröte und der Hase · Animation Production Assistant
- Der Raub der Frühlingsgöttin · Animation Production Assistant
- Micky's Findelkind · Animation Production Assistant