Forbidden Planet used Disney Imagineer....

[mitros]

Well, this is news to me. DW and I were going through our DVDs to find something to watch on a rainy Florida afternoon. She choose Forbidden Planet. You know, the one with Walter Pidgeon, Ann Francis, Leslie Nielson, and "Robby" the robot.
We have watched it dozens of times before, but for the first time really watched the credits at the start of the movie, and were suprised that along with the other special effects folks, there was the name of a Disney Imagineer {it did not say Imagineer, but I would assume that's what he was} named Joshua Meador, who, according to the credits was there "through courtesy of Walt Disney Studios" Anyone ever hear of this guy?

 

[Uncleromulus]

In "Disney A to Z" (dave Smith) it says:

Longtime Disney Special effects animator and painter, loaned out to create the animation effects for Forbidden Planet (1956), He worked at Disney from 1936 until his death in 1965.

Not much I guess, but at least he was mentioned--

By the by-Forbidden Planet is one of my favorite SCi FI movies. Set the standard for most of what we have today.

 

[Cindy B]

We watched a bit of Forbidden Planet as well. Since Anne Francis and Forbidden Planet were mentioned in Rocky Horror Picture Show, we felt obligated to watch a bit!

 

[Uncleromulus]

Just checked out Maltin's Disney Films book. Meador is in the credits for Alice in Wonderland, Bambi, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea--among a # of others. Sounds as tho he was a "regular"--

 

[TheDoctor]

Forbidden Planet is a classic Sci Fi movie. For its time, it had good speical effects and a good plot (ripped offed from Shakespeare but still a good plot).

 

[Uncleromulus]

What was it--the "Monster of the Id" (??)
Great stuff!!

Meador was also in on Snow White and Darby O'Gill...

 

[amy4bruce]

Didn't Ellenshaw also work for Disney? Probably a lot of 50's sfx people came from the Disney studio.

Forbidden Planet is a wonderful reworking of The Tempest. The special effects lost the Oscar to a bowl of lime green jello. (That, according to an old professor, was how they split the red sea, or, rather, showed the sea split. The actual splitting was animation.)