Q: Your article is the highlight of each FanFare I read. Since you are asked so many questions, I thought I’d ask you some questions about questions. Do you have a favorite question you have been asked? What question took you the longest to answer? Is there one question that you have not answered that particularly frustrates you?
Michael, Savannah, Georgia
A: Thanks, Michael. One of my favorite questions, though unanswerable, was “How much does Walt Disney World weigh?” There were many questions that took a long time—sometimes I would spend several hours searching for an answer, then have to give up when my search proved fruitless. I have been frustrated in not being able to find a listing of the background artists who worked on each of the early Disney cartoons (before they started putting credits on the films); we know the animators and the directors, but not the background artists.
Dave Smith