Ward Kimball

Firehouse Five Plus Two

‘SirPef’ just posted these videos on YouTube and I had to share. If this music doesn’t make you smile, then I’m flat out of ideas. It’s …

Books

Two New MUST-HAVE Books!

It’s December. Holiday gift-giving time. Prepare for several posts in the next few weeks about new books and DVDs you must own – or give …

Disney

Mickey Mouse’s Cartoon Band

Long before the Firehouse Five Plus Two (not to mention Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), Pinto Colvig (storyman, voice of Goofy) …

Disney

Ward Kimball Treasures

I was thinking recently how wonderful it would be if the Disney Company compiled a Blu-ray Treasures collection of projects directed by …

Animators

Brice Mack, RIP

Animation Magazine reports that background painter Brice Mack passed away on January 2 at the age of 90. His backgrounds appeared in …

Animators

More Rare Kimball Video

Brew reader Dave Stuckey has uploaded yet another crazy rare Ward Kimball clip: a Firehouse Five Plus Two performance from the MGM film …

Old Brew

REMEMBERING FRANK

Charicature byOllie JohnstonLast night at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Disney held a memorial for Frank Thomas. It was a …

Old Brew

FRANK THOMAS (1912-2004)

Frank Thomas, the second-to-last surviving member of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” group of supervising animators, passed away on September 8, …

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