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  Harper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harper is an old English surname that originally belonged to a person who played the harp or who made harps.
Harper is often preferred by modern players of the folk or Celtic harp, as it carries more traditional connotations than harpist, which is frequently associated with playing the larger concert pedal harp.
Pat Harper, American TV news anchorwoman who, in January 1987, pretended to be a homeless person on the streets of New York City for 6 days in order to "meet the homeless, experience and see what life on the street [was] like"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harper   (535 words)

  
 Print Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Goff is also one of 257 people in the nation certified to train Balanced and Restorative Justice for the Department of Justice.
Goff said he feels there is a great deal of fear and apprehension in Lawrenceville about the water situation.
Harper said the big issues facing the city are the water contamination situation and lack of industry.
www.suncommercial.com /articles/2005/03/26/news/news01.prt   (1614 words)

  
 Proteus - Fantastic Voyage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Goff was a longtime friend of Walt Disney but it would be his work on "Leagues" which would sour their relationship and possibly cause Mr.
Goff who convinced Disney that the Nautilus should appear to be built from the technology of the late 1800s rather than the sleek futuristic concept originally favored by Walt.
Goff in the eye after that incident and I doubt their relationship was ever the same again.
www.cloudster.com /Sets&Vehicles/Proteus/ProteusTop.htm   (428 words)

  
 Walt Disney’s
Goff’s first idea was to combine both methods and have a diver, wearing a helmet, receive his air from scuba tanks, instead of a surface pump.
Harper Goff recalled the development of the iris, “I wanted the iris to be an effective visual device which could either open a scene up or close it down.
That’s the way it was at the start,” remembered Harper Goff, “and then as we got into it we discovered that once you built the submarine then add a tank you could get lots of footage really cheaper then you could do it with effects animation.
www.disneysub.com /pub/harry.html   (16021 words)

  
 Harper Goff - TheBestLinks.com - Fort Collins, Colorado, March 3, March 16, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Harper Goff (born March 16 1911 in Fort Collins, Colorado, died March 3 1993) was an artist, musician, and actor.
He is best remembered as the driving artistic force behind many of the visual aspects of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and several areas of the Disney World theme park.
A lifelong model train enthusiast, Harper Goff quickly became an important member of the Walt Disney Company's Los Angeles artistic team after a chance meeting with Walt Disney in a London model-making shop in 1951.
www.thebestlinks.com /Harper_Goff.html   (320 words)

  
 Harper Goff - A Disney Legend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Harper Goff was born on March 16, 1911, in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Harper's accomplishments while working with Disney include creating the storyboards for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and the design of Captain Nemo's Nautilus submarine.
Harper's talent was also put to task at EPCOT Center and the World Showcase.
www.disneylandtoday.com /Legends/hgoff.htm   (173 words)

  
 CultTVman News:Disney Stores
The look of the Nautilus came from the brilliant imagination of artist Harper Goff, who knew that the ship's design would be crucial to the success of the whole picture.
Other special Goff touches were the round irising viewports that look out from Nemo's salon, saw-toothed rakers capable of cutting through the hull of a ship, and a skiff which fits into its own berth on the afterdeck.
Allsmiller, an expert on 20,000 Leagues and the Nautilus, and who shared a close friendship with designer Harper Goff, has authenticated the model to be as correct as possible.
www.culttvman.com /disney_stores.html   (732 words)

  
 MAR 16 Disney History
otion-picture designer Harper Goff, who collaborated with Walt Disney on Disneyland's design, is born in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Harper's concepts for Main Street established the fact that a story could be told with architecture (he designed Disneyland's City Hall).
Goff was also a member of the Firehouse Five Plus Two (a jazz band made up of Disney employees).
thisdayindisneyhistory.homestead.com /Mar16.html   (393 words)

  
 A Tale of Two Main Streets
Walt Disney never set foot in Fort Collins, but he was impressed by the vivid tales told by Harper Goff, the son of a local newspaper editor.
It was when someone tried to sell the museum a presentation drawing by Goff of the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant, a commission from the Green Giant frozen foods company.
Goff had incorporated some Fort Collins buildings into his drawing of the Valley.
lamar.colostate.edu /~koziol/mc696/main-street.htm   (1853 words)

  
 Welcome, Foolish Mortals, to DOOMBUGGIES.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Harper Goff (above) and Ken Anderson (below) were instrumental in the early stages of the Mansion's planning.
Many of Goff's early designs suggest a building that might have come from the storybook rural midwest, since one idea for the haunted house was to build it on a crooked path just off of Disneyland's Main Street.
This early rendering of the proposed "Haunted House" by Harper Goff (left) depicts a rural look to the proposed attraction, which was originally proposed to be set off of Disneyland's Main Street.
www.doombuggies.com /history.htm   (784 words)

  
 Nautilus
Goff convinced Walt Disney that it would be much better if it had the look of 19th century technology.
Goff (who loves to tell stories) related an incident which occurred after the movie had premiered.
Harper and Walt were longtime friends from way back and Harper liked to kid Walt when he could.
www.cloudster.com /Sets&Vehicles/Nautilus/NautilusTop.htm   (549 words)

  
 Disney History
Walt turned to production designer Harper Goff (who worked on films such as Casablanca and Captain Blood) and, in a single weekend, created a map of his park concept.
He hired long time friend Bill Cottrell as vice-president and he, along with Anderson and Goff, moved into the little bungalow where the Disney studio was first located before moving to Burbank.
After seeing Walt's determination and the work of illustrator Harper Goff, art director Richard Irvine, and artist Herb Ryman, Walt's brother and financial manager, Roy, was convinced that Disneyland would be built.
www.icewind.net /themepark/disney_hist.htm   (2023 words)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Movies - "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" Extra Information
So long as you're going to mention some of the technical crew of WONKA, you might as well go ahead and list the credit, "Production Design by Harper Goff." Goff was an unsung hero of the movie; no one else was quite so responsible for giving a relatively moderate budget film such a "big" look.
His use of space in the both the deceptively tiny candy shop at the beginning of the film and in the movie's glorious "Chocolate Room" is terrifically intelligent, economical and striking.
Goff worked for Disney in the 'fifties and is the actual production designer of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, though he was denied both the credit and eventual Oscar for his work because he was not at that time in the union.
www.roalddahlfans.com /movies/willinfo2.php   (380 words)

  
 Studio-Scale ARCHIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But the innovative Harper Goff had other ideas -- he envisioned an ornate, riveted iron design more characteristic of the Victorian era in which the story was set and in which the author Jules Verne lived.
Goff whipped up a rough prototype to demonstrate his vision to the brothers Disney, and in the end his version was what made it to the big screen.
During the production of the film a complete miniature measuring about 11-feet long was built for underwater scenes and suspended on wires for filming.
www.starshipbuilder.com /studio-scale/issue1_nautilus.html   (831 words)

  
 JimHillMedia.com : Welcome!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Harper Goff had worked on the preliminary designs for Walt Disney's plans for a "Mickey Mouse Park" across the street from the Disney Studio.
Sam McKim was yet another art director at 20th Century Fox who was recruited to work on Frontierland along with Harper Goff (who had his hands full contributing to Main Street and the Jungle Cruise).
In 1975, Harper also contributed to EPCOT Center, designing the layout of the World Showcase, and designing concepts for the Japan, Italy, and United Kingdom pavilions.
www.jimhillmedia.com /mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1561   (1661 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
In the 1970s, Tom Scherman, a prop maker and designer in the 'Cascade' generation of special effects men, built many beautiful replicas of Goff's Nautilus, some so elaborate that they were bought by Disney for display purposes.
Goff's work becomes especially noteworthy when one notes the patchy work on submarine designs seen elsewhere.
Only Toho's Atragon has some measure of majesty to match Harper Goff's work, and it is more of a 'transformer' toy, flying through the air and drilling through the Earth.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s815under.html   (2620 words)

  
 MousePlanet.com
C.V. Wood was involved in several aspects of the design and construction phase of the park, as was conceptual designer Harper Goff.
One of Goff's duties would be the design and creation of Main Street, U.S.A., an idealized central street from turn- of- the- century America.
Consider this dismaying observation: Harper Goff, who was brought in by Disney to do Main Street, didn't meet Walt at the studio or even in California.
www.mouseplanet.com /more/mm010810.htm   (886 words)

  
 Widescreen Museum - The CinemaScope Wing 3
And Harper Goff's designs for the ship and diving suits are pure classic that are vastly more interesting than those described in Verne's novel.
Harper Goff's remarkable design of the Nautilus and divers' suits remain a landmark in film history.
One merely has to look at the two "remakes" that appeared on television in recent years to see how Goff, even more than Verne, hit upon a look that sticks in memory and seems to convey, simultaneously, a Victorian and futuristic look that makes the story work so well.
www.widescreenmuseum.com /widescreen/wingcs3.htm   (1199 words)

  
 The Totalimmersion exclusive Nautilus Submarine
Jules Vern's Submarine Nautilus as visualized by Harper Goff in the 1954 Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
This kit is based on the Goff visualization built by Tom Scherman Hollywood set designer and Lee Seiler Hydrodynamic model ship builder at the Department of Naval Architecture University of California Berkeley Model ship towing tank.
No scale model of Harper Goff s Disney Nautilus would be complete without a crew.
www.totalimmersion.com /Nautilus.htm   (569 words)

  
 Bureau 42 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The Special Edition DVD
Designer Harper Goff created the definitive pop-culture images for Jules Verne’s novel.
The Nautilus (interior and exterior) and the deep-sea suits (actually functional) remain as indelible as Boris Karloff/Jack Pierce’s Frankenstein Monster.
Harper Goff‘s designs capture perfectly a Victorian notion of the future.
www.bureau42.com /view/1758   (878 words)

  
 History
Goff for sketches of a new theme park.
As Walt Disney cotinued his ideas for his theme park he asked Harper Goff to lay out the plans in a
Goff had to push the eleven-acre park to its maximum lilit of sixteen-acres.
members.aol.com /toocute4u2018/History.html   (311 words)

  
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The nickname given by Harper G. for 2 devices that the Atomic counter lever impacted.
What was the inspiration for Harper Goff for the interior of the Nautilus?
According to Harper Goff what material did Nemo use to build the Nautilus?
www.disneysub.com /quiz.html   (601 words)

  
 Disney Haunted Mansion History
Walt had planned to build a small "theme park" on a parcel of land across the street from his Burbank studios.
Disney's art director, Harper Goff, created a sketch called "Church, Graveyard, and Haunted House", which depicts a gothic haunted house on a hill.
The haunted mansion in Disneyland Paris, known as The Phantom Manor, completely ignores Walt's decree, and returns to Harper Goff's original concept of a ramshackle Victorian house on a hill.
www.haunteddimensions.raykeim.com /index335.html   (713 words)

  
 Screen Used Props   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As the story goes, Harper Goff knew he needed an organ for the salon set but could not find a suitable one anywhere.
It was sitting in a garage in the Valley and, according to its seller, was not working (no organ without pipes or a bellows works as far as I know).
Goff asked how much the person wanted for it.
www.20k.com /pages/content/props/8.html   (156 words)

  
 The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.
Harper, Robert S. Harris, William C. Hendrick, Burton J. Herndon, William H. and
Remini, Robert V. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Oates, Stephen B. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
www.alincolnbookshop.com /html/bibliographies.htm   (1910 words)

  
 Jules Verne's Nautilus
Bob Martin's RC-Sub site documents his scratch-built Harper Goff Nautilus project and augments it with lots and lots of other goodies.
Accurately described as "the most comprehensive collection of photos and information" about the Harper Goff Nautilus from the Disney movie.
Björn Lundberg has some nice photos of his Goff and Verne Nautilus models, and some plans.
home.att.net /~Karen.Crisafulli/nautilus.html   (1215 words)

  
 Pete Kelly's Blues
Likewise superb is Andy Devine, cast against type as a corrupt, brutal Kansas City detective, and Lee Marvin as Kelly's best pal.
Disney art director Harper Goff, who'd been performing miracles on Webb's TV series Dragnet, brilliantly sustains the smokey zeitgeist of the Prohibition era.
Pete Kelly's Blues was later spun off into a TV series starring William Reynolds as Kelly.
www.findthefun.com /events/e0014156.htm   (224 words)

  
 The Chamber Weekly 12/27/02: Share your business’ history
In 1955 Walt Disney’s turned to one of his trusted studio artists, Harper Goff, to design Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A., an idealized central street from turn-of-the-century America.
Goff modeled the design after his boyhood home: Fort Collins.
You might not also know that the first Chamber of Commerce was located behind the Cache Bank and Trust on College Avenue and Mountain Street.
www.enewsbuilder.net /fcchamber/e_article000203218.cfm   (284 words)

  
 Wonka Will Wait a While at Wolper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The show includes original drawings by art director Harper Goff, and the original costume worn by Wilder, designed by Helen Colvig and on loan from Joe Maddalena of Profiles in History, Beverly Hills.
It also includes numerous letters, some extremely pointed and critical, exchanged by participants in the production, in addition to Ostrum's production diary.
Art director Harper Goff, designing the look of the film.
www.usc.edu /isd/pubarchives/now/print/p304.html   (408 words)

  
 DVD Talk > Reviews > 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: SE > Printer Friendly
Another short subject on The Humboldt Squid raises our awareness of the power and danger of real squids, who actually do swim both ways, forwards and backwards, as pictured in the film.
From the ample evidence of the extras, the most important man in the show appears to be a homely design genius by the name of Harper Goff.
In the 1970s, Tom Scherman, a propmaker and designer in the 'cascade' generation of special effects men, built many beautiful replicas of Goff's Nautilus, some so elaborate that they were bought by Disney to display purposes.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=6327   (2465 words)

  
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The time setting places the play at being just prior to the time when the European settlers came to North America to influence and change the Indians' way of life.
The cast and crew of the play include Jonny Mena; Melanie Goff; Hannah Goff; Steely Jocis; Chris Cherry; Melissa Miller; anne Fenley; Patrick Houlihan and Brian Matthews.
Also performing in the play were Stephanie Morris; Rachael Brown; Lacey Woodard; Samantha Comancho; Krystal Harper; Danielle Mosby; Nadine Moore and Jay Jenkins.
www.angelina.cc.tx.us /10-22-02/cherokee.htm   (394 words)

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