Working with Disney
- Alfredo Leon
- Oct 21, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 15, 2022
Gilles "Frenchy" de Trémaudan was an animator, story man and sketch artist for Walt Disney.
He animated through most of the 1930's at Disney on short subjects like The Picnic (1930), The Pioneer Days (1930), The Birthday Party (1931), Mickey Steps Out (1931), an Bugs in Love (1932) just to name a few.
He worked at UPA after Disney and apparently later went to become a monk at the Santa Barbara Mission. He went by the name "Brother Gilles".
Very little is know of him but I liked his interview because he is not originally from the USA, he was a Canadian of French descent. Given some of the things said about Walter, I like that he himself hired Gilles even though he had French roots. He is also described as a "super guy" and that he was very artsy and full of life.
Actually the brief section of his interview demosntrates that, as he talks fondly of "Uncle Walt" (like he said they called him) and how not many books register Walt's sense of humor.
Gilles talks about how, despite being severe with the consequences, Walter practically liked the many jokes that he was a victim of.
To be honest, I never thought Walt Disney would have any sense of humor in the workplace, he seemed so stern to me that despite what he sold and created with his Disney empire, I always assumed fun came as a job to him. Mind you, he sold fun and warm experiences pretty well, but I assumed it was just that to him, a business.
Sources: ProQuest
Peri, Don. "Working with Disney : Interviews with Animators, Producers, and Artists", University Press of Mississippi, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/langara-ebooks/detail.action?docID=683913.
Created from langara-ebooks on 2022-12-15 23:31:42.
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