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| | Disney Shorts - Ward Kimball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | At Disney, Ward began naturally as an inbetweener, and later moved on to become assistant to Hamilton Luske, who had animated the grasshopper in the 1934 Silly Symphony The Grasshopper and the Ants, and would go on to animate Jenny Wren in Who Killed Cock Robin (1935). |
| | Next to the crows and Jiminy Cricket, Kimball's most famous animation was probably the frenetic title song in The Three Caballeros, as he animated the broad rapid movements of Donald and his friends and broad visual gags to illustrate or contradict the song lyrics. |
| | The stylized designs and animation are particularly successful in Mars and Beyond, realizing various conceptions of Martians, including those in H. Wells' War of the Worlds, and several original creations, with the result that the creatures range from slightly forbidding to purely absurd, yet all feature strong designs and limited movement. |
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