Spring has sprung or its just around the corner and I have several DVD collections that Bill Matthews gave to me before he passed away. There are a lot of animated classics and shorts which I am starting to post on my YouTube channel, Animateducated.
Among these are "The Disney Family album" hosted by Buddy Epson, with several episodes about the Disney animators, known as "The 9 Old Men" nicknamed by Walt Disney when they were all very young men.
I will post the episodes here as I process them, here are two about Eric Larson and Marc Davis. Enjoy!
I first met Bill Matthews when he gave a tour of the Disney Studios to a group of student filmmakers involved in the Student Film Awards. Many years later, I got to know and work with him at Woodbury University where he was teaching an intro to animation class.
Before he passed away at the beginning of 2022 at the age of 94, he gave me a box full of DVDs which he had used as part of his lecture series for new talent at Disney. I have found a way transfer the videos to my Animateducated YouTube channel to help share his collection to other interesteand helped educate a lot of students interested in learning animation.
I will be posting them there, but for now here are a few clips of Bill's work at NASA's JPL in Pasadena, several animated cameos in various Disney films and an educational film from JPL which Bill created the animated segments.
Here's one of those animation shorts that Bill collected from a short film by Prudential Insurance called "The Lion and the Mouse."
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