Flawed film premises weren’t invented in the last decade. For guidance, Music reached out to Ward Kimball, who had spent nearly forty years as a director, writer and animator at Disney, and had ...

New York–based publisher ANTIBOOKCLUB is officially announcing today the acquisition of my in-depth biography of Disney animation legend Ward Kimball (1914–2002). The Ward Kimball Biography (working ...

Ward Kimball, an animation pioneer who became one of Walt Disney's trusted "Nine Old Men" and will be forever linked with such characters as Mickey Mouse and Jiminy Cricket, has died. He was 88.

For many, trips to Disneyland are a family tradition. But for Nate Lord, it’s working at Disneyland that carries on a family tradition. Lord is an engineer on the Disneyland Railroad, a collection of ...

Rarely does a single auction encompass the entire history of an art form. But on August 16-19, Heritage will do just that when it presents The History of Animation: The Glad Museum Collection ...

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Ward Kimball might be the most important name in animation you’ve never heard: one of Disney‘s first animators, he worked on the dwarfs for “Snow White,” designed Jiminy Cricket for “Pinocchio” and ...

While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than realistic human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things ...