Stan Green - my 326th pick to be named a Disney Legend.

Animator Stan Green is my 326th selection ot be named a Disney Legend. This information is quoted from the website Disney's 50 most influential animators:

Milt Kahl was a man with a short temper and had no toleration for anything short of perfection. He was notorious for screaming and cursing at anyone who made a mistake in their work. Even animators who he was no better than were sharply criticized by him. Few had the guts to put up with Milt’s temper and behavior as well as his many demands when it came to animation. If one man completely had the guts, it was Stan Green.      Stan Green was born in approximately 1921, making him Kahl’s junior by around 12 years. His father John Green was an orchestra conductor.  A native of Oregon, Green would go on to serve in the military in World War 2. Years later his colleagues at Disney wouldn’t believe he was a war hero because of his sweet, mild character (a big contrast with the cold and manipulative Kahl.) The battles Green fought in included the D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. After the war was over and Stan got married he came to the Disney studio around 1950 to become the assistant of Milt Kahl.

The 50s was a decade with Milt Kahl in his prime. Among his roles included Alice and the Dodo in A lice in Wonderland, Peter and Wendy in Peter Pan, Tramp in Lady and the Tramp, and Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty. By Sleeping Beauty, Green was Kahl’s head assistant and had responsibility over all his other assistants. Perhaps Stan’s experience in the military made him patient and capable of taking Milt’s heavy demands. Milt structured his scenes in a way that was very hard to follow. The movement was very complex and it was being done on complicated threes instead of organic fours. However he drew very cleanly and not much clean-up was needed to make his drawings look beautiful. After working as Kahl’s head assistant on Dalmatians and Sword in the Stone Green left Disney in 1963 for Ed Graham Studios.

In 1971 Stan Green returned to Disney to work again as Milt Kahl’s head assistant with even more authority than before. Kahl would eventually assing Green the duties of animating much of Madame Medusa in the Rescuers.