The Wildly Wonderful Ward Kimball … part one
I found this on YouTube and it got me to thinking about Ward Kimball…
This is vintage Ward…
In September of 1973, I had obtained an “early out” from my army career (drafted during the Vietnam War) to attend the Art Center College of Design, located on Third Street near the Hancock Park area in Los Angeles. Let’s just say I managed to complete the term.
For me, L.A. was a complete surprise! I lived in a small one bedroom with myself and three cats; Cat, Cat Junior (known as Junior) and Cat Junior Junior (known as Jay Jay). We were all freaked out a bit about Los Angeles and where we lived in the Hollywood area. Every night police helicopters flew overhead with their searchlights scanning our neighborhood…we lived in a war zone. After a term of this we left L.A. headed back to the east Coast. By the time we reached Flagstaff, Arizona – I knew I would be going back.
So, in the spring of 1974, I returned to ACCD after a hiatus of one term determined to begin anew. I was a film major- a new area for Art Center. (The previous fall there was an Advertising Design/ Film major – but now the two majors had split.)
My first class of the new term was Storyboarding. When I walked into the classroom- there was the instructor. He was about 65 years old, had a shock of wild white hair- a bit thin on top and dark rimmed glasses and an eternal smile. The glasses really struck me because the lenses were perfectly round. This guy looked like a cartoon character! That was my first meeting with Ward Kimball. I didn’t know the name Ward Kimball – had never heard of him. Ward’s method of teaching was pure Disney. He taught through entertainment. It just so happened that animator Steve Segal was a visitor in the class. Steve was visiting L.A. from Virginia. Steve had made a drawn on film movie about trains RED BALL EXPRESS to the tune of CATCHER IN THE RYE. Kimball loved trains and invited Steve to class. There were only about 8 people in the class- seems as though no one else knew who Kimball was either!
But Steve knew who Ward was and which films he had worked on at Disney. They kept each other entertained the entire class. The whole scene was very Fellini-esque. It turned out to be a brilliant class - one of the best Art Center has ever offered. Ward, being an amazing storyteller, taught us the craft of storyboarding – every aspect from shot selection to timing to presentation (and how to pace a presentation). He kind of talked out of the side of his mouth – like he was letting you in on a secret you had to protect. My favorite assignment was to ”board” a limerick. We could choose any limerick we wanted. He demonstrated how to act the storyboard out using my boards. Incredible!
His stories about his Disney career were equally amazing.
next time…Kimball his trains and the forgotten film!
August 29th, 2007 at 1:10 pm e
Now that’s an extremely interesting clip. My mental image of Ward Kimball - whom I’d have loved to meet - is dominated by how he looked during his last years. Never seen him in motion before while he was a little younger and sturdier. Guess the cartoony impishness in him came really out as the years advanced.
I love how he steadfastly takes Groucho’s jabs and then gets the last laugh by dryly responding, “’cause there’s seven of us”.
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