OLLIE JOHNSTON Typed Letter Signed TLS AutographedAnimation Walt Disney Studios

OLLIE JOHNSTON Typed Letter Signed. Signed "Ollie Johnston" in blue pencil. Typed letter signed on personal letterhead dated February 10, 1991. The letter make reference to his first feature film being SNOW WHITE and that he didn't work on DUMBO.

Letter measures 5.50" X 8.50" and is inFINE condition. Letter reads, Dear Robert: / Snow White was my first Disney feature / film. From then on I worked on all of / the major ones except Dumbo as I was on / Bambi at that time.

/ Best wishes, Ollie Johnston. Ollie Johnston Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. 31, 1912, Palo Alto, Calif. Died April 14, 2008, Sequim, Wash. , American animator who was a member of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men, " a group of top-notch animators.

Johnston began his lifelong career (1935-78) with Disney working on such shorts as Mickey's Garden (1935). He soon advanced into feature animations, creating such memorable characters as the dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Blue Fairy scenes in Pinocchio (1940), the stepsisters in Cinderella (1950), Mr.

Smee in Peter Pan (1953), Pongo and Perdita in 101 Dalmatians (1961), the dancing penguin waiters in Mary Poppins (1964), Mowgli and Baloo in The Jungle Book (1967), and Rufus the cat in The Rescuers (1977). Johnston was also a coauthor of what some considered the bible of animation, Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (1981). Johnston was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2005.

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This item is in the category "Collectibles\Autographs\Movies". The seller is "legendsinhistory" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

Industry: Movies
Signed by: Ollie Johnston
Signed: Yes
Autograph Authentication: Not Authenticated
Original/Reproduction: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States