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Marc Davis

Date of birth:	30 March 1913
Date of death:	12 January 2000
Country Of Origin:	America
Profession:	Artist Animator
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	" Animation had been done before, but stories were never told. "		Marc Davis

	" At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil. "		Marc Davis

	" Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it. "		Marc Davis

	" Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market. "		Marc Davis

	" Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. "		Marc Davis

	" Generally you would have one top assistant and he would have two or three assistants under him who most of the time were inbetweeners. Never a large operation, really. "		Marc Davis

	" His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today. "		Marc Davis

	" I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on. "		Marc Davis

	" I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young! "		Marc Davis

	" I think live action was something Walt always wanted to do and it took a long time for people to come around to letting him do that. "		Marc Davis

	" I would see the Disney cartoons whenever I went to the theater because they were just program fillers at the time. "		Marc Davis

	" In the early days, Walt Disney knew that he wanted to do feature-length animated films, but nobody outside of his organization knew this. So he advertised practically around the world I guess, in classifieds; little ads. "		Marc Davis

	" It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals. "		Marc Davis

	" It wasn't that you had to do these things, you wanted to do them. You were so proud. Every write-up the studio got, everybody went out and got it. "		Marc Davis

	" Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. "		Marc Davis

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