Milt kahl biography of michael barrier

  • Milton Erwin Kahl (March 22, 1909 – April 19, 1987) was an American animator.
  • Newly released 1976 interview with Disney animator Milt Kahl conducted by Michael Barrier and Milton Gray.
  • Michael Barrier has posted excellent interviews on his site with Robert Mckimson, Milt Kahl, John Hubley, and as of today Fred Kopietz.

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    I'd not noticed til this morning that Michael Barrier had graciously noted the existence of the Blackwing Diaries over on his site, in his December 19th entry. An honor!
    While I have never spoken personally to Mr. Barrier(we've exchanged a few emails over the last year or so), his Funnyworldwas, and remains, the finest magazine I know devoted to cartoon animation. Amid Amidi's Animation Blastis also excellent, and catching up fast to that distinction, but Barrier owns the award for writing on animation at a time that couldn't have been less encouraging, the mid-late 1970s. Long before the Illusion of Life, long before Of Mice and Magic, Barrier was devoting space in his magazine to both Disney andWarner Bros. animation, taking the styles of both Milt Kahl and Rob Scribner seriously as performance(the only other attention paid across the spectrum to the arts of animation was in Danny and Gerald Peary's 1980 The American Animated Cartoon, an anthology with priceless essays

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    Milt Kahl

    Year Title Credits Characters Notes 1934Servants' EntranceAnimatoruncredited 1935Mickey's Fire Brigade (Short)uncredited On Ice (short)uncredited 1936Orphans' Picnic (Short)uncredited Elmer Elephant (short)uncredited Mickey's Circus (short)uncredited Toby Tortoise Returns (short)uncredited 1937Snow White and the sju DwarfsForest animalsCredited as Milton Kahl Lonesome Ghosts (short)uncredited 1938Ferdinand the BullFerdinand (voice; uncredited) Farmyard Symphony (short)uncredited 1939Ugly Duckling (short)uncredited 1940PinocchioAnimation DirectorPinocchio, GeppettoCredited as Milton Kahl 1942BambiSupervising AnimatorBambi, ThumperCredited as Milton Kahl 1943Saludos Amigos (Short)AnimatorDonald Duck riding the llama sequenceThe Grain That Built a Hemisphere (Documentary short)uncredited Education fo
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    Milt Kahl

    (March 22, 1909-April 19, 1987)

    One of the Disney Nine Old Men and considered the finest draughtsman of the Disney animators. Before starting work at Disney, Milt trained with local San Francisco artist while working for magazines as a photo touch up artist. After seeing the Disney short ‘Three Little Pigs’, Milt became mesmerized by animation and applied to Walt Disney Studios in June of 1934, where he began as an assistant animator. After Freddie Moore saw Milt drawings of Pinocchio, Disney raised Milt to supervising animator over the artists who brought Pinocchio to life. After working for almost 40 years at Disney, Milt retired in 1976 and spent his remaining years following other interests, including sculpture.  

    Characters

    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Forest Animals, The Prince, dwarfs dancing with Snow White.
    • Pinocchio: Pinocchio, Pinocchio as a real boy.
    • Bambi: Adult Bambi, Adult Flower, Adult Thump