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Frank & Artie

March 19, 2008 12:24 pm

What’s wrong with the following sentence in this Andreas Deja interview: “I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.”

Then again, the same article also doesn’t spell Rodin properly so it’s probably asking them too much to do the most basic research about animation history.

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24 comments posted in Disney

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03/19/08 12:27pm	mickhyperion says:
	Ruth Buzzi could animate circles around Artie Johnson!!
03/19/08 1:06pm	Jones says:
	You don’t remember Artie Johnson? He was one of the Seven Aged Fellows who worked for Wilt Dinsee.
03/19/08 1:08pm	Larry Levine says:
	Very interestingggg! I’m sure Ollie wouldn’t find this a ‘Laugh In’ matter!
03/19/08 1:11pm	Floyd Norman says:
	Actually, I worked with Artie Johnson as well. Except it was at NBC, not Disney - - on the set of “Laugh In.” Very interesting. . .
03/19/08 1:13pm	Gerard de Souza says:
	Hmmmmm. Verrrrrrrry Interestink.
03/19/08 1:18pm	Animation Pimp says:
	Stop complaining Amir.
03/19/08 1:48pm	Chuck R. says:
	Bummer. Deja didn’t name even one of the Nine New Men. I was really looking forward to that.
03/19/08 1:49pm	gene schiller says:
	If you want correct spelling it’s “Arte” Johnson.
03/19/08 2:24pm	Keith Paynter says:
	“Ruth Buzzi could animate circles around Artie Johnson!!” …and she carries a mean handbag! But I’d bet on Artie Johnson in a tricycle race any day!
03/19/08 2:26pm	Keith Paynter says:
	p.s. - didn’t Marc Davis sing “Oh Lord, It’s Hard To Be Humble?” :)
03/19/08 4:40pm	Fran Krause says:
	Are you going to tell us who the heck those guys are, or am I going to have to go to Wikipedia? I’ve always thought that “famous animator” was a bit of an oxymoron.
03/19/08 5:00pm	Andrew says:
	It’s not a big deal. It would be one thing if the interview got a very well-known animation fact completely inaccurate. A spelling error is quite another, and who knows whether or not they misspelled his name, or if they are indeed oblivious to his real name.
03/19/08 5:33pm	Ryan says:
	Movieweb’s always had a clear pro-Artie Johnson bias. I’m surprised it hasn’t been picked up earlier.
03/19/08 5:48pm	Paul N says:
	My local paper ran a story about Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis just before the Oscars (he’s also the mayor of a neighboring town). In the article, the reporter wrote that Lewis has previously worked on “Antz” for Pixar…
03/19/08 8:01pm	Joanna Davidovich says:
	A couple weeks ago, an article in the Atlanta Creative Loafing stated that DesiLu Studios was created by Lucille Ball and her husband Ricky Ricardo… I wonder if anyone at these papers bothers reading the articles before sending them to the press.
03/19/08 9:40pm	Graham says:
	Amid angry! Smash!
03/19/08 10:09pm	Danny R. Santos says:
	very funny post, but I don’t think even Michael Eisner knew who Ollie Johnston was.
03/19/08 10:46pm	greg m says:
	Did Andreas mention Melvin Kahl?
03/19/08 11:46pm	Bryan says:
	Or how about Wart Pimpall?
03/20/08 8:26am	John A says:
	Veeerrryy innnteressstinnk…….but Shtupid.
03/20/08 9:32am	top cat james says:
	Anyone else remember “Baggy Pants and the Nitwits”, the DePatie- Freleng production where Johnson and Buzzi reprised their roles of Tyrone and Gladys from “Laugh-In”.
03/20/08 9:56am	greg m says:
	Man, some of us are showing our age here!!! Laugh-in!!
03/20/08 11:51am	Chuck R. says:
	top cat: Yes! —but I can’t say I remember it fondly. At the time, I knew Baggy Pants was based on Charlie Chaplin, but it was only much later that I learned where Tyrone and Gladys came from.
03/20/08 2:14pm	Dave Mackey says:
	Arte Johnson was actually awarded a creator credit. The earliest episodes of the show had to have a network VO guy read the credit line, but eventually Art Leonardi added it to the title sequence.

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