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#224041
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie Whose collection is that? Yours? Why don't you have a scanner? What an amazing collection.


Yes, actually it is mine - fresh from a 20 year old cardboard box. Ken's wife, Kathryn, was my grandmother. When she died, almost two years ago now, I was given the couple boxes of animation that she kept. Ken was never one to keep his drawings, or even sign much of anything. He also didn't like award shows or anything like that, and the few he did get he often gave away later. These boxes are full of all sorts of odds and ends, ranging from Ken's passports showing his yearly trips to England to work with Dick Williams, lists of all of the cars he had owned (he had done some race car driving as well as being a big car fan - his first drawings were actually for the car dealership he worked at), pictures of his tennis team (was an avid and apparently expert tennis player - I know he was invited to be a ref at Wimboldon one year but i don't think he took the offer), numerous birthday and Christmas cards (apparently animators like to draw cards and send them to each other instead of the visiting the store to buy one), and, as expected, various drawings and cels.

What is posted is about half of what I have - the other half is what I imagine animators do when they are not making production drawings. They are carcatures and joke drawings of each other or scenes of around the office. There are probably around 150 of these all sitting in a few evenvopes marked "Leon Schlesinger days". Probably a couple gems in there, but have not gone through them yet.

What is there is pretty much everything I have from the Chuck Jones and Dick Williams days.

About the scanner, what advantage would the scanner be over a digital picture? I figure it would be a bit clearer (though you can click on the pics on the website, and then expand it from there, it does make the fuzzy ones stand out even more) and I need to retake some of the pics. I can probably get some scanner time if it would make a significant difference. Thanks.