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| merlin jones |
 Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 4:12 am |
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Please forward to all members:
Quote: Dear friends and collegues in the animation community;
The time has come to support Roy Disney and Stanley Gold in their
battle for the heart of the Walt Disney
Company.
We have crafted a letter of support from the animation community (see
below), which is posted on Dave Pruiksma's website at:
http://www.pruiksma.com/letterofsupport.html
If you would like to have your name added to the list, please email
one
of us :
oscarmoore@earthlink.net (Steve Moore)
nm8rdave1@sbcglobal.net (Dave Pruiksma)
merlinjones@earthlink.net (Tim Hauser)
Simply type "I support Roy: (and your name)" on the email header, so
we
don't have to open it.
We will share lists and Dave will post names with the letter at his
site. After we get a healthy list, we will send the letter to the
appropriate parties and media.
Please forward this email to anyone you know in the animation
community
who would like to join the fight. We need all the names we can get,
old timers and new. If you have a
connection with any of the classic studio personnel, please ask them
to join the list.
Roy and Stan need our energy at this critical time, to know what they
are doing is worth continuing and
that they have our backing.
The letter:
Quote: "I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do
things, wanted to build things, to get something going." - - Walt
Disney
We, the undersigned members of the animation community, wish to lend
our
full support to Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold as they seek to uphold
the traditions of excellence that once defined the Disney name. We
follow their lead in calling for Michael Eisner's resignation from the
Walt Disney Company.
As aspiring cartoonists, we wanted nothing more than to join the
Disney
organization, to perpetuate the art of character animation as "The
Finest in Family Entertainment". We studied Walt Disney's films and
the
methods of The Nine Old Men. With hard work and perseverance, we
became
part of a highly skilled team that kept the magic going.
Of course, this would not have been possible without the vision of Roy
E. Disney. He protected the Feature Animation division from the new
studio brass, who did not sense its continued potential. Without Roy,
The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King
would never have come to be, let alone the Company's artistic
renaissance and financial turnaround.
But, after a string of critical and box office successes, animation
artists were increasingly locked out of creative leadership roles. In
the new corporate template we became little more than factory workers
or
unskilled laborers at the studio we had helped rebuild.
Micro-managers
from outside the medium fostered a highly toxic work environment,
spawning a creative malaise that continues unchecked.
The unique traditions of visual storytelling, humor and personality
animation on which the Walt Disney Studio had thrived, gave way to
politically correct sloganeering, stale one-liners and film seminar
formulas to which audiences have refused to respond.
Mr. Eisner's rejection of Walt Disney's heritage has been a colossal
failure. Yet this is a man who has been paid over $700 million in
compensation since 1996, while the Feature Animation department has
been
decimated by pink slips.
Now, skilled craftsmen go unemployed while the executive ranks swell.
A
unique American art form, the Disney cartoon feature, hangs
precariously
in the balance - - reduced to the production of cheap direct-to-video
franchise extensions made by committee.
Without Roy, who will protect the 70 year Disney legacy from becoming
no
more than a hollow brand?
Bravo to Roy and Stanley for challenging Michael's vision for the
Company, for making public what has too long gone unsaid, and for
daring
to "Feed the Birds."
"I have every confidence that so long as our film presentations
toughen
the mind and warm the heart with the best the motion picture industry
can offer in art and craftsmanship and genuine human warmth, so long
may
we expect prosperous support and a long life." - - Walt Disney<<
Website will be taking names until midnight Tuesday, Dec. 9th.
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