I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Lou Mongello on WDW Radio. Enjoy the podcast at this link!

This just in from Imagineer Chris Runco whom I interviewed recently for a future volume of Walt's People:

[Just wanted to let you know I did a podcast interview recently about the development of Star Tours, and particularly the design of the pilot, RX-24. It was for cartoonstocastles.com.]

Not to be missed.

I gave a long interview to The Book of the Mouse Club yesterday about the fifth volume of They Drew as They Pleased (the volume that was released last year).

The Podcast is now available at this link. Enjoy!

I was interviewed last week by Mousetalgia about the upcoming They Drew as They Pleased - The Hidden Art of Disney's Early Renaissance. I believe most of you will enjoy listening to the interview.

Only two weeks before the released of the 5th volume of They Drew as They Pleased. Some of you may enjoy the interview I just gave to Animated Views.

Excellent news to start the day. Michael Barrier has just released his interviews with Maurice Noble.

Michael Barrier has just released his 1986 interview with Les Novros, Bill Hurtz, and Paul Julian. Enjoy!!

Great interview by John Musker and Ron Clements by Kevin Kern from the Walt Disney Archives.

Another interview about They Drew As They Pleased - The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era that some of you may enjoy.

Great interview with Grim Natwick just found on YouTube by Todd James Pierce. Pure delight.

Michael Barrier has just released his interview with Tyrus Wong. Pure delight, as always!

Thanks to my good friend and fellow Disney historian, Mindy Johnson, I have recently discovered the only known photo of Bela Lugosi posing as Chernabog to guide the animators of Fantasia (especially Bill Tytla). If all goes well that photo will be released in the third volume of They Drew As They Pleased.

The filming session with Bela Lugosi took place at the Disney Studio on November 12, 1939. Now, thanks to Aaron Goldberg, author of The Disney Story, here is a clipping from the February 1940 issue of the magazine Modern Screen about that session.

Do not miss today the interview of Brice Mack by Harvey Deneroff on Cartoon Research.

More exciting material released today by Michael Barrier about Jack Kinney. Not to be missed.

Michael Barrier has just published his second interview with Jack Kinney, which is an even more fascinating read than the first one. This made my day!!

This website contains short interviews with seldom-interviewed Disney artists and others. No to be missed!

Today is a happy day. Michael Barrier has just released a massive interview with Wilfred Jackson on his blog, complete with some spectacular photos. Enjoy!

Help Needed

Theme Park Press is currently working on a collection of never-released-before interviews with artists who worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We need volunteers to help Theme Park Press' owner, Bob McLain, transcribe as quickly and reliably as possible the hundreds of hours of interviews. Could some of you help? If so, could you please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com?

Help needed with background noise reduction

One of the songwriters of Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland was Jerry Livingston. As far as I understand he was interviewed only once, by Disney historian David Tietyen. Unfortunately that recording suffers from terrible background noise and is therefore close to impossible to transcribe.

Is anyone reading this post an expert when it comes to backghround noise reduction and if so, could you please contact me at didier.ghez@gmail.com?

[UPDATE: I found a volunteer.]