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Drawings and Water Colours / WD1105

The [Show] Joe Must Go On

Artist (attributed to): McDonald, Ionia [b.c.1903]
Artist: O'Brien, Willis [1886-1962]
Manufacturer: RKO Productions, [active: 1928-1957]

Series title: Post-production album for 'Mighty Joe Young'

1949
Ink and pencil on Sunset illustration board

320 x 205 mm.
Gift: Raymond Durgnat 2002

Attributed to Ionia McDonald as her signature appears bottom right integrated within the black ink drawings. However, the drawings may be by different artists. The small drawing of a gorilla with head in hands is almost certainly by Willis O'Brien as it accompanies his signature. The signatories on the sheet include the following: Scotty Whitaker, Emmett Bergholz (camera operator), Alfie McCoy, James Altwies (set dresser), Bill Lasky, Maurice 'Monk' Askins?, Ray Harryhausen (first technician responsible for 80% of the animation), Howard Richmond (assistant art director), Marcel Delgado (special effects, created the armature of Joe), George Lofgren (technical staff, taxidermist, created the fur for Joe), Mark? Schoedsack, Betty? Schoedsack, Bea Benjamin, Zac Porter, Willis O'Brien (technical creator), Robert Armstrong? (actor, played Max O'Hara), Terry Moore (actress, played Jill Young), 'Tony' Moore, Bill Smith, Harry Kay, W.G. McLellan, Bert Willis (photographic effects), Ted Cheesman (film editor), Vic Delgado, Jack R. Berne, Jack Lannan (production effects), Willis H. Dudley, Gloria Hamilton and Ionia McDonald






 
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