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Kendall O'Connor

出生 : 1908-06-07, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

死亡 : 1998-05-27

略歴

Born in Perth, Australia, on June 7, 1908, Ken studied commercial art at Melbourne Technical College and fine art at the Australian National Gallery in Melbourne. In 1930, he emigrated with his family to the United States, settling in San Francisco, where he continued his education at the California School of Art. Among the most memorable images Ken created for the screen were the magical coach in Cinderella, the marching cards in Alice in Wonderland, and the dancing hippos in Fantasia. His other credits include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo,Make Mine Music, Melody Time, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and more. During World War II, Ken worked on training and educational films that Disney produced for the United States government, includingFood Will Win the War, as well as theatrical cartoons such as Education for Death. Later, he provided layouts for the first 3-D cartoon, Adventures in Music: Melody. He also served as art director on three “space factuals” for Disney’s television programs Man in Space, Man and the Moon, and Mars and Beyond. He also art directed the first CinemaScope cartoon, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, which won an Academy Award® in 1953. After more than 30 years with the company, Ken retired in 1978. He continued to lend his imagination and artistry, however, to such projects as Epcot Center’s Universe of Energy and World of Motion attractions. He also consulted on the Back to Neverland [sic] film, featured in the Magic of Disney Animation attraction at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park in Florida, which introduced park guests to the animation process. Ken also taught layout and art direction at the California Institute of the Arts, helping influence an entire generation of today’s animation greats. -D23

参加作品

リトル・マーメイド

Visual Development

トリトン王が治める海の王国。16歳になる王の末娘アリエルは、見たことのない人間の世界に憧れていた。ある嵐の日、船から海に落ちた人間の王子エリックを助けたアリエルは、ハンサムな彼に恋してしまう。彼を忘れられないアリエルは、魔女アースラに頼み、自分の声と引き替えに人間になれる魔法をかけてもらった。だが、魔法の期限は3日間。それまでに王子と相思相愛になれなければ、彼女の魂は魔女に奪われてしまうのだ。

Physical Fitness and Good Health

Physical Fitness and Good Health

Art Direction

Exercise, rest and proper diet are essential for physical fitness. Diagrams show the structure and function of muscles and the importance of exercise to tone muscles, nerves and organs. With rest, muscles are cleansed of wastes and refueled. Food, our only energy source, provides fuel for the body mechanism. If the physical side of the Health Triangle is weak, the other two sides can be adversely affected.

The Social Side of Health

The Social Side of Health

Art Direction

The narrator tells of the three sides of health represented by a triangle with the physical side at the bottom, the mental side on the left, and the social side-the subject of this film-on the right.

Steps Towards Maturity and Health

Steps Towards Maturity and Health

Art Direction

There is a focus on the need for physical, mental and social health to be fully developed in order for humans to function properly within society. The film is aimed at an adolescent audience who are independently confronting developments in these aspects of their well-being for the first time.

Goofy's Freeway Troubles

Goofy's Freeway Troubles

Art Direction

After a brief review of the problems described in Freewayphobia #1 (1965), we see a new range of problems. These include: abrupt breakdowns due to poor maintenance; unsecured loads; running out of gas. We learn how to handle breakdowns properly. We also learn about situations that can affect the driver, like fatigue, alcohol, turnpike trance, and the weather.

Art Direction

Goofy demonstrates how not to drive on the freeway: first, the overly timid driver, then the overly aggressive driver, and finally the inattentive driver, shaving or eating. Some of the advice is a bit dated: following distances are still in car lengths instead of time, and of course cell phones aren't mentioned directly.

Contrasts in Rhythm

Contrasts in Rhythm

Layout Supervisor

An animated segment from the film Melody Time which includes the two shorts "Bumble Boogie" and "Trees".

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Art Direction

In this short subject (which mostly represents a departure from Disney's traditional approach to animation), a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with cavepeople, whose crude implements could only "toot, whistle, plunk and boom," the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion.

シンデレラ

Layout

継母であるトレメイン夫人とその娘たちにいじめられ、メイドとしての日々を過ごす薄幸の少女シンデレラ。継母や義姉たちが舞踏会の仕度をする一方、シンデレラは今日も家事をおしつけられていた。それでもいつか幸せが来ると信じる彼女に、仲良しの優しいネズミがドレスを用意するが、そんな衣装も義姉たちにやぶられてしまう。悲しみにくれるシンデレラの前に、魔法使いのフェアリー・ゴッドマザーがやってくるが……。

ぼろぼろタイヤ

Layout

Donald, driving in the country, is frustrated in his attempts to fix a flat tire. The jack breaks, the radiator explodes, then the remaining three tires go flat. Donald gives up in disgust and drives on with the flats. The film features references to the rubber shortage during World War II.

Art Direction

ある春の朝、森の大王、大鹿のグレート・スタッグの子供としてバンビが生れた。バンビは仔兎のトンパーやスカンクのフラワーと友人になり、また牝の仔鹿ファリンとも仲良しになった。夏、秋、冬、バンビはすくすくと成長したが…。

Layout

Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.

Art Direction

一人暮らしのゼペットじぃさんは、木でつくった人形に【ピノキオ】と名づけ、星に「自分の子どもになりますように…」と願いをかける。するとブルーフェアリーが現れ、魔法でピノキオに命を授け「勇気を持って生き、正直で優しければいつか本当の人間になれる」と言い残して去って行く。学校へ通うようになったピノキオだが、いろいろな誘惑に惑わされてしまい…。

The Practical Pig

The Practical Pig

Layout

After his two brothers are captured, the third little pig invents a machine to capture the big bad wolf.

Layout

美しく心優しい白雪姫。その美しさを妬む継母の女王から命を脅かされ、森の奥深くに逃れた白雪姫は、7人のこびとたち―おとぼけ、ねぼすけ、くしゃみ、てれすけ、ごきげん、先生、おこりんぼ―と出会い、一緒に暮らし始める。ある日、老婆に姿を変えた女王が訪ねて来て、毒リンゴを口にしてしまった白雪姫。横たわる白雪姫の傍らで悲しむこびとたちの元に王子様が現れて…。

Art Direction

美しく心優しい白雪姫。その美しさを妬む継母の女王から命を脅かされ、森の奥深くに逃れた白雪姫は、7人のこびとたち―おとぼけ、ねぼすけ、くしゃみ、てれすけ、ごきげん、先生、おこりんぼ―と出会い、一緒に暮らし始める。ある日、老婆に姿を変えた女王が訪ねて来て、毒リンゴを口にしてしまった白雪姫。横たわる白雪姫の傍らで悲しむこびとたちの元に王子様が現れて…。

Animation

Musical instruments are the stars of a romantic fable set in the Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz, two islands separated by the Sea of Discord. The violin princess and the saxophone prince fall in love, but must meet secretly in order to avoid the wrath of their parents, the Symphony queen and the Jazz king. The queen finds the boy saxophone on her island, attempting to woo her daughter. She has him locked in the metronome, but the young lover manages to send a note - in fact, several musical notes on sheet music - that conveys the message that he has been imprisoned. The Isle of Jazz declares war by blasting musical notes across the sea. The only thing that can bring peace and harmony to the Sea of Discord is love.