Woolie Reitherman - Disney Family Album Part 1

Part 1 of 3. The Disney Family Album documentary on the legendary Disney Animator/Director, and one of Walt's famous "Nine Old Men".

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Film & Animation

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• Disney
• Woolie
• Reitherman
• Animator
• Animation

[KiCreativeStudios]

Woolie was the man, but sadly he didn't animate the T-Rex properly. It's not his fault though...in those days museums positioned T-Rexe skeletons standing upright like Godzilla....too bad he didn't live long enough to see Jurassic Park.

[CartoonFan56]

Woolie Reitherman was a fantastic director and a great artist. I would also like to be a pilot like him.

[KodyBoy555]

That's the guy who died in a car accident, in 1985?

[MrJohnffrey87]

My favorite classic Disney animator next to Fred Moore and Art Babbit.

[KiCreativeStudios]

@jensmusicfaves You're absolutely right. Well, logic would dictate that if Mr. T-Rex wanted to eat, he would have to angle himself in that position... anyway Woolie had the right idea and it's still a great scene.

[jensmusicfaves]

@KiCreativeStudios Actually, if you watch the scene again, note that the T-Rex (at least when walking or running) *is* more-or-less positioned the way we now understand a real one would've been... it's like, in the process of animating a T-Rex and the problem-solving associated with such, that logic sort of 'leaked through' Reitherman's subconscious.

[kryptonianpowers]

In my opinion, the way how Woolie animated the t-rex in "The Rite of Spring" from Fantasia, it's more scarier than the t-rexes in The Land Before Time movies. And if you take a good look at the rex's incisor teeth, it almost makes him look like a vampire. Be kinda weird to see a vampiric tyrannosaurus rex.

[MultiJames1989]

From 1967 to 1981, Woolie kept the Disney magic alive after Walt's death in December 1966. Without Woolie's artistic leadership, the Disney animation studio would have closed it's doors and there would be no more of those marvelous Disney films. Before his retirement in 1981, he guided a new generation of artists those who would later make such classic features in the 1990's like "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King."

[disneyfan85]

Woolie also helped animate Goofy, as a lead animator under Jack Kinney.

[KTChamberlain]

It was also Woolie who came up with the idea of getting the key up the stairs in Cinderella rstaged like something out of a Hitchcock film.

[chdoyle2007]

It's great to see the work of Disney's Nine Old Men will never be forgotten and will never stop being appreciated. To discuss more about them search classical hand drawn animation.

[FuzzyDuck]

Thank you for posting this! He was such an underrated animator and director. He had an amazing knack for motion and character expressions. Reitherman was able to maintain great character designs (especially in animals), while still maintaining their original forms in hilarious facial expressions and body language. His comic timing was wonderful. A true artist.