

The Life and Times of Ward Kimball
Maverick of Disney Animation
Author: Todd James Pierce
Narrator: Al Kessel
Unabridged: 13 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/28/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Arts & Entertainment
Synopsis
As well as contributing to classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Kimball established a highly graphic, idiosyncratic approach to animation alongside the studio's more recognizable storybook realism. In effect, Ward Kimball became the only animator to run his own in-studio production team largely outside of Walt Disney's direction.
Through Kimball, the studio developed a series of nonfiction animation programs in the 1950s that members of Congress pointed to as paving the way for NASA. The studio also allowed Kimball's work to abandon some ties to conventional animation, looking instead to high art and graphic design as a means of creating new animated forms, which resulted in films that received multiple Academy Award nominations and two awards.