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Category Archives: Ward Kimball

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A Letter from Ward
Kimball

Animator and director Will Finn has posted a letter that he received
from Ward Kimball in 1973 packed with sage words about becoming …

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Animators

More Rare Kimball Video
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday May 16, 2007   12:24 pm
Brew reader Dave Stuckey has uploaded yet another crazy rare
Ward Kimball clip: a Firehouse Five Plus Two performance from …
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Animators

Ward Kimball on You Bet Your Life
by Amid Amidi   Sunday May 13, 2007   9:48 pm
At the pace we’re going, by this time next week our site will
likely be renamed Kimball Brew. But after seeing the incredible …
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Animators

Ward Kimball on The Tomorrow Show
by Jerry Beck   Sunday May 13, 2007   3:30 pm
As an addendum to our posts on Ward Kimball (can we ever post
enough about Kimball?), our pal Don Brockway (Psst, check out …
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R.I.P. Ward Kimball’s Railroad
by Jerry Beck   Saturday May 12, 2007   6:06 pm
According to this piece in today’s LA Times, Ward Kimball’s
family is dismantling his backyard Grizzly Flats Railroad – one …
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Ward Kimball’s Escalation
by Jerry Beck   Saturday February 10, 2007   9:03 am
Ward Kimball made this film independently from the Disney Studio
in 1968. It is the only independent short ever made by one …
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Ward Kimball

Ward Kimball Arrives On MySpace
by Amid Amidi   Sunday December 31, 2006   12:23 am
“Cartoonist, painter, antique auto collector,
railroad-in-his-back-yard Kimball, trombonist, photographer, …
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Ward Kimball

Firehouse Five Plus Two
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday August 16, 2006   2:26 am
‘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 …
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Ward Kimball

A Ward Kimball Painting
by Amid Amidi   Thursday May 4, 2006   8:21 pm
Animation director Jim Clark is one lucky son of a !?*$!%.
That’s because he just bought an incredible Ward Kimball …
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Ward Kimball

Kimball’s Toy Trains
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday July 5, 2005   4:15 pm
Here’s a fascinating piece on legendary Disney animator Ward
Kimball’s toy train collection and the recent auctions of the …
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Ward Kimball

Tips from Ward Kimball
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday April 19, 2005   5:07 am
I was re-reading the Ward Kimball section in John Canemaker’s
masterful WALT DISNEY’S NINE OLD MEN AND THE ART OF ANIMATION …
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Kimball Paints Oreb
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday March 23, 2005   12:58 am
After the recent post about Ward Kimball paintings, somebody
emailed to ask whether I had a color version of Kimball’s …
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Ward Kimball

Ward Kimball, Painter
by Amid Amidi   Monday March 21, 2005   1:28 am
Here are a couple beautiful paintings by one of Disney’s Nine
Old Men, Ward Kimball (1914-2002). He was, of course, a genius …
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Ward Kimball

Monday Inspiration
by Amid Amidi   Monday October 25, 2004   10:02 am
Currently up for auction, a painting by Ward Kimball with
gorgeous color and design. (Thanks, Shane)
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Ward Kimball

Unidentifed Flying Kimball
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday September 14, 2004   12:21 am
Ward Kimball is the only animator I can ever imagine being
caught up in this sort of stuff. This ARTICLE recounts Ward’s …
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