Some documentaries are egocentric fluff pieces but such is NOT the case with the six (6) decade career of animation artist and guru Floyd Norman. How can you not love him and not want to meet him? His business partner and fellow cartoonist Leo Sullivan, his five (5) children are now all adults and they sit around their dining room table talking about how low key their dad was. Heck, even his ex-wife Belle talks fondly about his artistic talent, fatherhood, husbandry, and having to share him with his first love for animation/illustrating and his Disney/Pixar/Hanna-Barbera other professional family of illustrators.
I gleaned a lot of insightful information about the early days of the Walt Disney family of animation artists/illustrators/story board writers first hand as we got to know Floyd Norman personally, through his own thoughts, words and actions as he spoke to us about his six (6) decade career that appears to still be going strong into his eighties.
His artwork has appeared in far too many films and TV series to mention them all but just a few highlights would be Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Mickey Mouse comic strip, and many of the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon series including my personal favorite, (1964) Jonny Quest.
It was very, very late when I sat up one evening to watch a PVR recording of this documentary but I couldn't stop watching because Floyd Norman and his second wife Adrien (married on September 05th, 1999) summed up his personal trials and tribulations with an immense and touching life story that was interspersed with animated sequences that I felt that I knew Mr. Norman his entire life.
Mr. Norman, if you and your wife Adrienne ever happen to find yourselves in Toronto Canada, I would with an open heart invite you both into our home for a big dinner and a night of whimsical conversation so that my wife and I could pick both of your brains for what really got you started and sustaining such a storied life in this competitive business for so long, that you loved so much. A truly great and honored member as a Disney Legend .
I give this wonderful and heart warming documentary about the life and times of artist/cartoonist/story board writer and illustrator Floyd Norman a loving 9 out of 10 IMDB rating
I gleaned a lot of insightful information about the early days of the Walt Disney family of animation artists/illustrators/story board writers first hand as we got to know Floyd Norman personally, through his own thoughts, words and actions as he spoke to us about his six (6) decade career that appears to still be going strong into his eighties.
His artwork has appeared in far too many films and TV series to mention them all but just a few highlights would be Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Mickey Mouse comic strip, and many of the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon series including my personal favorite, (1964) Jonny Quest.
It was very, very late when I sat up one evening to watch a PVR recording of this documentary but I couldn't stop watching because Floyd Norman and his second wife Adrien (married on September 05th, 1999) summed up his personal trials and tribulations with an immense and touching life story that was interspersed with animated sequences that I felt that I knew Mr. Norman his entire life.
Mr. Norman, if you and your wife Adrienne ever happen to find yourselves in Toronto Canada, I would with an open heart invite you both into our home for a big dinner and a night of whimsical conversation so that my wife and I could pick both of your brains for what really got you started and sustaining such a storied life in this competitive business for so long, that you loved so much. A truly great and honored member as a Disney Legend .
I give this wonderful and heart warming documentary about the life and times of artist/cartoonist/story board writer and illustrator Floyd Norman a loving 9 out of 10 IMDB rating