{"id":1600,"date":"2008-05-22T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2008\/05\/22\/obit-ollie-johnston-95-disney-animator\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T20:18:00","slug":"obit-ollie-johnston-95-disney-animator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2008\/05\/22\/obit-ollie-johnston-95-disney-animator\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit: Ollie Johnston, 95, Disney Animator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMr. Johnston, an animator who started with Walt Disney with &#8220;Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs&#8221; (1937)(VHS 5200), was an &#8220;inbetween artist&#8221; who specialized in communicating emotion in  characters with his use of movement nuances studied from real life. Media Services has Frank and Ollie (VHS 6404), a documentary about his work and friendship with his longtime colleague, Frank Thomas. Other videos in the Media Services collection on which Mr. Johnston contributed include:<\/p>\n<p>Fantasia (1940) VHS 1429<br \/>Bambi (1940) DVD 3318<br \/>The Three Caballeros (1944)  VHS 3296<br \/>Alice in Wonderland (1951)  DVD 995<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/obituary\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11081964\"><br \/>Obituary from The Economist<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Johnston, an animator who started with Walt Disney with &#8220;Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs&#8221; (1937)(VHS 5200), was an &#8220;inbetween artist&#8221; who specialized in communicating emotion in characters with his use of movement nuances studied from real life. Media Services has Frank and Ollie (VHS 6404), a documentary about his work and friendship with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}