Ralph Hulett

Nascimento : 1915-08-01, Paris, France

Morte : 1974-02-01

História

Ralph Pierre Hulett was an animator, artist, and entrepreneur, who had worked in many of Walt Disney's films. Although Paris-born with Canadian parentage, he moved to Burbank to start working with Walt Disney until Walt's death. However, he continued to design the backgrounds for movies by the Disney studios until 1972.

Filmes

Tico e Teco: Diversão em Dobro
Background Designer
É confusão em dose-dupla quando Donald precisa de lenha para a lareira e tenta cortar a árvore onde moram Tico e Teco. Mais tarde é a vez da dupla sentir-se em casa na estação de trem de brinquedo do Donald. A seguir, teremos uma competição romântica quando os dois esquilos gostam da mesma garota. E depois é a vez de Pluto, que quer esconder seus ossos na mesma árvore em que Tico e Teco guardam suas nozes.
Steps Towards Maturity and Health
Background Designer
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.
Understanding Stresses and Strains
Background Designer
This film suggests the usage of common sense to minimize the normal stresses and strains of everyday life.
Mogli: O Menino Lobo
Background Designer
Mogli, um garoto criado por lobos e que vive na selva, é convencido pelo seu amigo Baguera, uma velha e esperta pantera, a buscar segurança no mundo dos homens. Mas Mogli, resistindo à ideia de seu amigo, resolve seguir a filosofia do urso Balu, que gosta de curtir a vida e ser feliz, fazendo o que gosta. Juntos, dão início a uma grande jornada em direção à civilização e encontram no meio do caminho um orangotango maluco, uma cobra com poder de hipnotizar e Shere Khan, um tigre ameaçador.
One Got Fat
Art Direction
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.
A Symposium on Popular Songs
Animation
Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly.
Aquamania
Background Designer
Mr. X buys a boat and inadvertantly enters the water skiing race. With Junior driving, with no experience, he's a bit out of his league.
Goliath II
Color Designer
Goliath II is a 6-inch-tall elephant (son of the huge Goliath). He's a big disappointment to his father, but mom is proud of Goliath II anyway. Goliath II is constantly getting into trouble because he's so small. In particular, the tiger Raja looks for every opportunity to try a bite-size taste of elephant. After one incident where he ran away and his mother scolded him, he runs away. After he's rescued, the rest of the elephants are terrified of a mouse, but Goliath II stands his ground.
Noah's Ark
Background Designer
The Biblical story of Noah's ark full of animals gets the Disney treatment in this animated short.
The Story of Anyburg U.S.A.
Background Designer
The city of Anyburg decides its traffic situation has gotten out of hand, so it puts the automobile on trial. The trial (conducted in rhyme) starts with a car that was in a hit-and-run accident, followed by a sports car whose sins are peeling rubber and general hot-rodding, followed by a heap, on trial for lack of safety. Next, a number of safety equipment designers testify that, despite their best efforts, the accident rate keeps rising. Through all this, the defense lawyer declines to ask questions. A highway designer bemoans the problems on his beautiful roads. At last, defense. He shows a number of scenarios, pointing out that the real problem isn't the car but the driver. Everyone left the courtroom, declaring the car not guilty, and drove politely again, for a little while.
A Cowboy Needs a Horse
Background Designer
A young boy dreams of being a cowboy. After he gets the basics, as outlined in the title song, he's attacked by Indians. He runs out of bullets and manages to lasso them. He smokes the peace pipe with their chief. A robber is holding up a stagecoach and he rides to the rescue, refusing the reward. He also saves a train from a dynamited bridge, and a girl tied to a cactus, before riding into the sunset (and back to his suburban bed).
Donald's Diary
Background Designer
Donald is writing in his diary and narrating (in a rather sophisticated voice) about his romance with Daisy. She was able to snare him into a relationship in which they got to know each other better and Donald got to meet Daisy's family. Finally, Donald decides to marry Daisy but when waiting for her to arrive so he can pop the question, he falls asleep and has a nightmarish vision of what married life would be like (among other things that he'll be forced to do all the housework and be served a burnt T bone for dinner). Needless to say, the marriage is called off when he awakens.
Test Pilot Donald
Background Designer
Donald flies his model airplane into Chip 'n Dale's tree. Dale climbs in and proceeds to cause trouble.
Bee At The Beach
Background Designer
Donald cheerfully sets up his umbrella etcetera for a day at the beach, but so did a mischievously lazy bee, who doesn't accept his actions inadvertently mess up the bee's spot. Once Donald is in the water in an inflatable raft, the irate insect uses its angle to sting not the duck, but the dingy, more often then Donald has fingers and toes to stuff in the holes, next makes sure to attract the 'gastronomical' attention of a whole band of sharks: duck hunting season at sea is open. Donald uses all the resourcefulness of desperation, and his only weapon, the beach umbrella...
Pests of the West
Background Designer
Father and son coyotes try to sneak into a henhouse that Pluto is guarding.
Primitive Pluto
Background Designer
Pluto's primitive wolf nature emerges and berates him for going soft. But their little hunting trip goes bad when Pluto encounters a rabbit and bear that give him some trouble.
Cinderela
Background Designer
Cinderela, é uma jovem que é obrigada pela madrasta a vestir andrajos e forçada a trabalhar de empregada. Ela tem como únicos amigos os animaizinhos. A fada madrinha lhe dá um lindo vestido de presente, para que ela possa ir ao baile, mas a moça precisa estar de volta até a meia-noite, pois o encanto se desfaz. No palácio, Cinderela, dança com o Príncipe, que fica encantado com ela. Ao fugir do palácio na hora combinada, Cinderela, perde um sapatinho de cristal e o Príncipe, faz de tudo para encontrar a dona daquele sapatinho.
The Greener Yard
Background Designer
An old beetle (though he looks more like Jiminy Cricket) living next door to Donald Duck explains to his young charge why Donald's garden isn't the paradise it appears to be, by recounting his battles with Donald when he first discovered the garden, and his narrow escape assisted by a couple of birds.
Donald's Happy Birthday
Background Designer
It's March 13, Donald's birthday. The boys are going to buy him a box of cigars, but they're broke. They do a quick bout of yardwork and hit Donald up for the price of the cigars (without telling him why), but he makes them put it in a piggy bank. The problem: how to get the money without Donald catching them. Donald catches them buying the cigars but thinks they are buying them for themselves and forces them to smoke until they are sick the whole box.
Pueblo Pluto
Background Designer
Mickey goes into a souvenir shop out west and leaves Pluto with a buffalo bone to chew on. A small dog comes to take it away and runs into a ring of cactus with it; Pluto is too big to enter the same way, so he comes in from above and finds himself stuck inside until the small dog helps.
Mickey e a Foca
Background Designer
Mickey Mouse inadvertidamente traz para casa uma foca bebê do zoológico, Pluto é o único que sabe disso.
Soup's On
Background Designer
Donald's nephews come to lunch filthy from playing outside. Donald sends them to wash up; when he finds they've done a half-hearted job, he sends them to bed without supper. They scheme to get food; Donald catches them, but falls off a cliff while chasing them. He's OK, but temporarily out cold. The boys build a fake corpse and dress Donald up as an angel, and he buys it for a while.
Pluto's Purchase
Background Designer
Pluto se surpreende quando Mickey pede para ele ir comprar salame no açougue e ele tem impedir que Butch, o buldogue o coma. Quando Pluto chega em casa com o salame, Mickey o da a Butch como presente de aniversário.
Tico e Teco
Background Designer
Quando Donald tenta cortar um pouco de lenha, ele destrói a casa dos esquilos, que tentam de tudo ao seu alcance para evitar que seja queimada e têm sucesso.
Foul Hunting
Background Designer
Goofy goes duck-hunting.
A Canção do Sul
Background Designer
Morando com os avós, depois que os pais se separaram, garoto só encontra a alegria nas histórias contadas por velho empregado da fazenda, plenas do rico folclore do Sul dos EUA. Filme produzido por Walt Disney que mistura desenho e atores reais.