Animation Artifacts &Fleischer &Models 02 May 2012 05:43 am
Vince Cafarelli’s Gulliver Models
- The last few times I’d met with Vince Cafarelli, before he died, he’d told me that he had some things he wanted to have me put on my blog. Candy Kugel has, recently, shown me the material he’d been offering. There’s a treasure of artifacts there, and it’s going to take a lot of time to display them all.
It turns out that when Vince started as a runner at Famous Studios in 1948, at one point, he found that the studio was dumping a lot of old material, and rather than let it be discarded, he took what he wanted. Fabulous gems. There’s an almost complete storyboard for a 1949 Popeye cartoon by Jack Mercer and Carl Meyer, and there are a lot of model sheets. There’s plenty of beautiful and rare work to post in the coming weeks.
I’ve decided to devote Wednesdays to the Vince Cafarelli Collection, and will start this week with all the models that came from Gulliver’s Travels.
1Several of the models, including this one, are the actual thing.
Pencil drawn originals including even the signatures approving the model.
Models approved by: Seymour Kneitel, Eddie “Hurray” Seward,
Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer, Dan Gordon, Willard Bowsky and
Frank Kelling.
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Most of them, including this one, are lithos done for the animators.
Model sheet approved by: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer, Frank Kelling,
Grim Natwick, Willard Bowsky, Dan Gordon, (Eddie) Seward, and
Seymour Kneitel
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An original pencil drawn model.
Approved by: Dave, Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel,
Max Fleischer, and Dan Gordon
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Approved by: Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer,
Seymour Kneitel, Dan Gordon, and Doc Crandall
5
Approved by: Dave Fleischer, Dan Girdon, Seymour Kneitel,
Frank Kelling, Eddie Seward, Willard Bowsky and Max Fleischer
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Approved by: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer,
Eddie Seward, and Hig. E. Gibson
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Approved by: Max Fleischer, William Hoskins, Dan Gordon,
Willard Bowsky and Grim Natwick
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Approved by: Max Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, Dan Gordon,
Grim Natwick, Eddie Seward, and Graham Place.
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Approved by: Edmond Seward, Dave Fleischer, Frank Kelling,
Max Fleischer, Dan Gordon and Willard Bowsky
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An original pencil drawn model.
Approved by: Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer,
Dan Gordon and Seymour Kneitel
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Approved by: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky, Seymour Kneitel,
Shane Miller, Eddie Seward, Max Fleischer, Izzie Sparber, and
Frank Kelling
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This model is a smaller size in the collection.
No approval names listed.
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This is also a smaller sized model sheet.
No approval names listed.
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Approved by: Max Fleischer, Dan Gordon,
Eddie Seward, Willard Bowsky, and Seymour Kneitel
15
Approved by: Dave Fleischer, Eddie Seward, Willard Bowsky,
Max Fleischer, Dan Gordon and Seymour Kneitel
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Approved by: Dan Gordon, Eddie Seward, “G”,
Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Dan Gordon,
and Max Fleischer
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Approved by: Max Fleischer, Eddie Seward, Dan Gordon,
Willard Bowsky and Seymour Kneitel
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An original pencil drawn model.
Approved by” Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer, Nic. E. Gibson,
Dan Gordon and Seymour Kneitel
on 02 May 2012 at 9:23 am 1.Candy Kugel said …
Thanks for sharing these! Vinny would have been so happy!
on 02 May 2012 at 10:39 am 2.Mark Mayerson said …
Wednesdays are going to be a delight for a while. Thanks to Candy and Michael for making this material available and to Vinnie for the foresight to save the material from the dumpster.
on 02 May 2012 at 1:44 pm 3.The Gee said …
wowza!
on 02 May 2012 at 3:45 pm 4.Mark Kausler said …
The “Snitch” inked model sheet, “Prince David” and “Twinkletoes” are all Charlie Thorson’s drawings. Nice post, great to see the original drawings of these Fleischer model sheets!
on 02 May 2012 at 4:13 pm 5.Donal Gordon said …
Hey thanks for posting this! I’ve never seen a lot of what my great grandfather worked on, very cool.
on 02 May 2012 at 5:17 pm 6.Charles Brubaker said …
Whoa, what a treasure trove. Looking forward to Wednesdays at your blog!
on 02 May 2012 at 5:46 pm 7.Mike Dobbs said …
Wow! I’ve seen some of these before, but many I’ve not seen. Thanks!
on 02 May 2012 at 5:57 pm 8.Stewart Patton said …
I just watched Gulliver’s Travels a couple days ago, nice timing and beautiful stuff.
on 02 May 2012 at 8:53 pm 9.Norma Rivera Klingler said …
Wow! These are sooooooooo awesome! I’ve been looking for years for artwork from that movie, finding little bits here and there on line. Thanks for sharing!
on 03 May 2012 at 9:15 am 10.Doug said …
I have Gulliver’s Travels on a horrible WalMart copy. What is the best dvd available for this feature? Is there a recent restoration that you might recommend?
on 03 May 2012 at 9:35 am 11.hans bacher said …
what a treasure, michael. so far I have only seen a handful of originals. thank you for the posts
on 03 May 2012 at 10:36 pm 12.Stephen Worth said …
Nice stuff!
on 16 May 2012 at 7:00 pm 13.Dave Mackey said …
small nitpick – these are great sheets by the way – the model signed off on by Hoskins is actually “Win Hoskins” – his name was Winfield Hoskins and he had a couple of credits on shorts as well as Gulliver.
on 23 Nov 2012 at 1:18 pm 14.Mandy said …
Just browsing and found this blog…I didn’t realize how much or what the Fleischer brothers were involved in.
My Dad was friends with them. When I was born in 1948 Dave made a pencil sketch of me – with a moustache and holding a cigar. He signed it. It has been in my baby album for 65 years. I’m thinking I should remove it carefully and have it preserved somehow…But how?