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Friday, December 7, 2018

Homer Brightman - my 407th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Screenwriter Homer Brightman is my 407th choice to be named a Disney Legend. His work with the Disney Studios inlcudes the following movies:


  • Saludos Amigos (Lake Titicaca) (1942)
  • The Three Caballeros (1944)
  • Old Sequoia (1945)
  • Make Mine Music (Casey at the Bat) (1946)
  • Dumb Bell of the Yukon (1946)
  • Fun and Fancy Free (Mickey and the Beanstalk) (1947)
  • Melody Time (1948)
  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (The Wind in the Willows) (1949)
  • Cinderella (1950)

He was also the original gag writer for Al Taliaferro's newspaper comic strip based on Donald Duck, before Bob Karp took this task upon him. His chances of bring named a legend are slime, as he wrote
"Life in the Mouse House: Memoir of a Disney Story Artist" - a not so flattering review of his tenure at the Walt disney Studios.

Homer Brightman wrote Life in the Mouse House in the 1980s. He died in 1988, and his book was lost until its rediscovery last year. When Brightman wrote the book, most of the people in it were still alive. He didn't want to offend them with his unflinchingly honest, provocative narrative, and so he changed the names of such luminaries as Ken Anderson, Perce Pearce, Ted Sears, Harry Tytle, and Roy Williams.

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