The Wildly Wonderful World of Ward Kimball Part 2…
This video of Ward with Tom Snyder says a great deal about Ward and his passion for his family, his art and his trains. Ward never seemed to do anything halfway.
When I re-entered Art Center, a friend of mine James “Bud” Proctor sent me a package- an animation drawing table, my first. Bud never did anything halfway either…one afternoon a 70 pound crate arrived with the “table”. Bud had created a solid wood crate and packed the table inside it. The table was constructed from heavy sheet metal and featured 4 or 5 - 36 inch florescent tubes. There were three places for heavy 3 pronged plugs and a special fuse system built into the inside of the table. The table was made so a double pegged inking board could be inset to be flush with the table’s top surface. Two heavy metal braces cut to 45 degrees fit into the bottom of the device. It was, to say the least, an enormous state of the art piece tabletop of animation equipment.
Bud and I had met in a filmmaking class while I was stationed at Fort Myer in Virginia.
When I told him about Kimball, Bud came out for a visit. With him he brought his super 8mm Beaulieu camera. It was a wonderful movie camera and was as close to 16mm film as our budget would allow.
We decided we had to make a film about Ward Kimball and his trains. I spoke to Ward about it and he was more than happy to oblige. So…we were about to make a film about Ward and his trains!!!
We picked a day between my 2nd and 3rd terms and we paid a visit to Ward’s house. He lived in San Gabriel and his house was easy to spot…there was a full sized boxcar resting on a side rail on the front lawn – in fact, the film began with those first images. The camera cruised down a normal neighborhood street and it did a “down take” when it reached the boxcar at Kimball’s house.
Next, we cut to the boxcar’s door…which slid back - a fully dressed conductor with a white shock of hair and perfectly round glasses peered out in all directions and then leaped down out of the boxcar doorway 4 or 5 feet to the ground. Keep in mind at the time, Ward was somewhere about 65 years old…he landed perfectly and we were ready for the next scene. We were also very grateful that Ward had not damaged himself. It was then that Ward came up to us and exclaimed, “I can do it better”.
Six takes later, Ward was completely satisfied with his performance – all the while I kept thinking, “I am going be known as the guy who killed Ward Kimball!”
And so, the rest of the day proceeded just as before. We would suggest and film an action or shot and then Ward would have an idea on how to improve it. After a few scenes, we realized that Ward was now the director of this movie…and that was fine with us.
We shot footage of him as a conductor with his train station. We shot footage of him in his gray pin striped hat, overalls and red kerchief as an engineer and used it as a transition to move inside to his train collection. He had two rooms in his collection with American trains and one with European trains (with electrical currents to match both rooms). The trains he collected ranged from approximately 1875 to 1945.
With the camera’s close up lens we could get right down at track level to catch the action of the model trains. We did shoot some excellent footage in both rooms.
At the end of the day, we had Ward Kimball, his Grizzley Flats railroad and his toy train collection “in the can”.
When the super 8 film came back from the lab, I couldn’t wait to edit it. I did a cut of the film and sent it to Bud. Bud polished it up and added sound and effects and music to our footage. Our little project came out great! We captured prime Ward Kimball on film doing his train thing!
Unfortunately, over the years the film has vanished! I don’t know if Bud has it or Ward had it or if I had it. We kind of passed it around. In fact, I have lost track of James “Bud” Proctor. Jr. from Falls Church, Virginia and I don’t know where he is now.
If anyone finds him- please let me know. If I ever find that film again- I will post it on the internet.
Great memories of that day with Ward and Bud…
I may write more about Ward another time…
Still Animated!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:04 pm e
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