A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Additional credits: In April 29, 1987 notes, Barks has recalled "animating long shots of Snow White, for practice, but I did no scenes that appeared in the film."

Correspondence:

April 29, 1987 notes written for "The Carl Barks Library"

Sources

Fantasia

Inducks: ...
WDAA: Fantasia/index.php
Type: animated movie
Directed by: ...
Story director: ...
Story crew: ...
Story men: ...
Hero: [none specified]
Submission: 1937, November 17 (Barks's gag idea)
Publication date: 1940, November 13 [Broadway Theater in New York]

Additional credits: Barks submitted a gag idea for the «Sorcerer's Apprentice» sequence, dated November 17, 1937. It contains a drawing of Mickey, with the explaining text: "Mickey moves hands in circle, causing huge waterspouts to rise from ocean and do gyrating dances."

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Bambi

Inducks: ...
WDAA: Bambi/index.php
Barrier: MBAC-026
Type: animated movie
Directed by: ...
Story director: ...
Story crew: ...
Story men: ...
Hero: Bambi
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1942, August 8 [London]

Additional credits: Preparatory work for this animated movie began in 1937, before «Snowy White» was released, but because of different reasons it didn't reach the cinemas until 1942. For this movie, Barks has collaborated with Chuck Couch and Ken Hultgren. Barks: "Maybe it was six weeks I was on that; I don't think we produced one single thing that ever appeared in the movie."
A gag that Barks and Couch apparently had devised, redrawn by Hultgren and titled «The Way to Crack a Nut», was preserved in Robert D. Feild's «The Art of Walt Disney».

Surviving material:

A gag that Barks and Chuck Couch apparently had devised, redrawn as nine finished sketches by Ken Hultgren and titled «The Way to Crack a Nut».: Robert D. Feild's «The Art of Walt Disney». London and Glasgow: Collins, 1942, p.183. (greyscale? colour?)
Unsigned coloured drawings of Bambi on ice, not used in the film.: 45 sketches have been published in Gladstone Comic Album 9 [Bambi] (colour)
Caricature/lampoon showing Barks behind a drawing board, holding a pencil at his mouth, saying "Now for a few Bambi gags".: Published in Barrier's Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (page 23, greyscale).
Caricature/lampoon showing Barks bent over a drawing board while squirrels and chipmunks peer suspiciously over his shoulder.: Publication (if any) is currently unknown.
Caricature/lampoon portraying Barks himself as a sly-looking squirrel.: Publication (if any) is currently unknown.

Backstage: Though Barks was pigeonholed as a "duck man", he worked briefly on «Bambi», but then was ordered back to work on duck pictures. Detailed information

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