BETH HANNAN WRITES:
I've just been reading with great interest about your project! I check
occasionally around the internet to see if anything is being done.
Anyway, I worked in the Trace & Paint department on Thief and Cobbler
doing cel painting in Camden in London. I only worked for the last year
of the production or so, was one of the last people hired and made it
through a round of firings - before of course we were all sacked on
that Friday (just looked it up in my old diary, it was Friday, May 15,
1992). We were told that morning that it would be the last day, I think
we must have worked in the morning, can't really remember and then all
went for a few drinks at lunch, when we returned were told to clear
out. Someone laid out some cels that we took and I grabbed all the
colour models I had at my desk and of course my brushes and that was
it.
We had a company party some weeks later and I was given my production
jacket (others had received theirs months before, but I was late into
the project so wasn't sure if I would get one at all - I was very happy
to get it).
The Trace & Paint was located in a different building from the
animators but we did get to see the rushes twice a week I think it was,
we were to report to that building first for the rushes and then go
back to our building a few blocks away after.
Anyway, don't know if any of that interests you! But like I said I do
have colour models that if you were interested in I could attempt to
scan (they might be bigger than my scanner though).
I have:
Vizier Zig Zag - dark colours
Nanny - normal
Princess
Eunuch
String (cobbler hands and strings formed into princess face)
King
Courtiers (Goblet, Gopher, Slap and Tickle)
a very small cobbler leading a camel with eunuchs carrying a tent
Thief - normal
Thief - moonlight
Cobbler
Another one that isn't labeled - can't remember it's name
those are all in color and I also have a photocopied Cobbler - shadow
I don't have any contacts with anyone I worked with unfortunately, and
I can hardly remember them! I do remember one German woman whose
husband animated, some Irish guys, some Australians possibly?