“With his pioneering efforts in sound and camera techniques, he helped set Disney Studios apart from others, while his planning and supervisory expertise resulted in the building of a highly efficient Studio in Burbank.”–Dave Smith, Director Emeritus of the Walt Disney Archives
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Fergy was fast with his pencil, cranking out up to 40 feet worth of animation a day; the average was 10 to 15 feet, according to Disney historian Bob Thomas.
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“During the 28 years I worked at the Studio,” he said, “Walt never came to a recording. He had confidence in me and in everybody else. He trusted his people. He also knew what kind of music worked—not the notes, the kind.”
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Among the 18 television and feature productions [Larry] directed were the Academy Award®-winning The Wetback Hound in 1957 and The Horse with the Flying Tail in 1960.
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Paul’s footage was subsequently assembled with other freelance material to create the Studio’s first feature-length True-Life Adventure, The Living Desert, which garnered an Academy Award® for best documentary in 1953.
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To those who grew up with Kurt, however, he’s still remembered as the all-American “apple pie and ice cream” kid who starred as Dexter Reilly in Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, and The Strongest Man in the World.
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Among her numerous Disney credits, however, Hayley is probably best remembered for The Parent Trap, in which she played twin sisters who scheme to reunite their divorced parents, played by Brian Keith and Maureen O’Hara.
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She became associated with The Walt Disney Studios in the early 1950s, when it began to produce live-action films in England.
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Al later recalled, “Walt was great. He said, ‘Just go out and get some good pictures.’ He never told us how to do it. He gave us independence.”
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Matsuo retired in September 1994 after dedicating 33 years to the development of Disney’s presence in Japan. In that time he grew its royalty income from an estimated six million yen in 1961 to twelve billion yen in 1991.
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