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Burnett "Burny" Mattinson (born May 13, 1935) is an American storyboard artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he has been employed since 1953.

Burny Mattinson
Born	(1935-05-13) May 13, 1935 (age 87) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, animator, film director, producer
Years active	1953–present
Employer	Walt Disney Animation Studios (1953–present)
Spouse	Sylvia Fry

Mattinson was honored as an inductee of the Disney Legends program in 2008.[1] Mattinson is officially the longest serving employee of The Walt Disney Company.[2]

Early life

Mattinson was born in San Francisco in 1935. His father, Bernie Mattinson, was a jazz drummer who toured with Horace Heidt's big band. His mother, Hannah Estevez, had resided in San Jose, California and was working at a theatre there, where she met the drummer. Both parents were of British heritage.[3] Before he was six, his mother took him to see Pinocchio (1940) at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.[4] Mattinson became enamored of animation and began practicing drawing Disney characters throughout his school years. In 1945, the family moved to Los Angeles once his father's band had ended.[3]

After graduating high school, his mother had asked what he wanted to do professionally. Mattinson replied, "Maybe I will try Disney. I will go over there and see about getting a job."[4] His mother dropped him off at the studio gate, where Mattinson handed his portfolio to a security guard. Impressed, the guard immediately called Ken Seiling, the head of Personnel. At the time, there were no available job positions in the studio's animation department, but Mattinson took a job in the traffic department.[5]

Career

There, Mattinson was mentored by Johnny Bond, an in-betweener. After a six-month stint in the traffic department, Mattinson began working as an in-betweener on Lady and the Tramp (1955).[6][7] Following its release, most of the character animators were laid off, but he joined Johnny Walker to work as assistant animators to Marc Davis on Sleeping Beauty (1959). Walker later left, and Mattinson was promoted to the position.[3] There, he worked on the character Maleficent. Reflecting on the experience, Mattinson stated, "We purposely kept her controlled and quiet and we let her dialogue do her acting for us. The reason for this was that we wanted to use those moments of when she exploded as accents that would frighten the audience. We kept her sweet, nice and controlled and then let her blow up on purpose."[8]

For One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Mattinson provided in-between animation; he also drew illustrations for the Little Golden Books adaptation for the film. After another lay-off, Mattinson, at the direction of Andy Engman, was re-assigned to work as an assistant to Eric Larson.[9] Under Larson's unit, he animated Ludwig von Drake for The Wonderful World of Color television series.[10] This was soon followed with The Sword and the Stone (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), The Jungle Book (1967) and The Aristocats (1970).

By the 1970s, an internal training program had been initiated to train assistant animators. Mattinson enrolled in the program, delivering an animation test within eight weeks. His animation test of Prince John from Robin Hood (1973) was approved, and Mattinson became a character animator under Ollie Johnston.[11] He next worked on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974) animating Kanga, Roo, Tigger, and Rabbit.[12] Meanwhile, Frank Thomas had noticed Mattinson's thumbnail sketches and recommended he work on The Rescuers (1977). Mattinson then worked on storyboards and designed the titles on the film, which he repeated again on The Fox and the Hound (1981) and The Black Cauldron (1985).[13]

On The Black Cauldron (1985), he, Mel Shaw, and several story artists had boarded several sequences, compiling the first two books of The Chronicles of Prydain. During a storyboard meeting, the directors had criticized a sequence Mattinson had boarded—the introduction of Taran and Dallben—claiming that it wasn't ready to move forward into production. Mattinson, known for his congenial personality, then exploded at the directors, which made him feel he had jeopardized his career at Disney.[14] He returned home that night depressed, telling his wife, Sylvia, what had happened. Sylvia then reminded him of a project that Mattinson had been excited about, urging him to "stop talking and start doing".[15] Having long desired to produce a project starring the "Fab Five" (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto), Mattinson had listened to a 1974 Disneyland Storyteller album titled An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol Performed by the Walt Disney Players written by Alan Young (who also performed the voice for Scrooge McDuck).[16]

In March 1981, at his wife's urging, Mattinson sent a two-paragraph pitch letter and the LP record to then-Disney CEO Ron Miller. The next day, Miller called Mattinson into his office, where he angrily inquired about the letter. Mattinson defended his idea, to which Miller dropped the ruse, declaring it was "a great idea" and approved the project. Mattinson was eventually made director and producer on Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983).[14] According to Mattinson, the project was initially conceived as a "24-minute TV special to air annually" starting on Christmas 1982, but an industry-wide animators' strike that same year delayed production.[17] It was later released as a theatrical short attached with the 1983 re-release of The Rescuers (1977). The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1984, but lost to Sundae in New York (1983).

The success of Mickey's Christmas Carol led to Mattinson's hiring as a director on The Great Mouse Detective (1986).[1] During production, in 1984, Miller, who had been the film's producer, was forced out as CEO and president, and replaced by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells. Roy E. Disney, who had been the animation department's chairman, promoted Mattinson as producer to replace him. However, Mattinson found both duties as producer and co-director much too laborious, and decided to remain as producer. Ron Clements, by then a story artist, was brought onboard as a co-director.[18] During production on Oliver & Company (1988), Mattinson moved to Orlando, Florida to briefly work at the Disney-MGM Studios to head up the shorts department. There, in search of a new project, the crew decided to complete an unfinished Mickey Mouse short titled Plight of the Bumblebee. Years earlier, in 1981, several elements (including the recorded soundtrack) had been discovered by Daan Jippes. Using the assembled elements, an animatic was filmed and screened to Disney executives, but then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg declined to complete it.[19][20]

Throughout the 1990s, Mattinson worked as a storyboard artist on nearly every subsequent Disney theatrical animated film, including Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and The Lion King (1994). Around this time, he began working closely with Joe Grant, whom he first met on Beauty and the Beast (1991). Together, along with storyboard artist Vance Gerry, the trio were comically referred as the "Geriatricals", who would pitch adaptations of children's books and develop original story ideas.[21] One of those discarded ideas Mattinson co-developed with Grant was Bitzy, which centered on an Indian elephant who leaves home to start a Hollywood career but ends up working in a used-car lot and falling in love.[22] Mattinson then worked as head of story on Dumbo II, which was later cancelled by John Lasseter.[23]

In 2008, Mattinson was awarded the Disney Legends Award.[1] A year later, directors Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall enlisted Mattinson to work as a story supervisor on Winnie the Pooh (2011), due to his earlier involvement with the 1960s featurettes.[24] In March 2011, Mattinson announced that he was pitching an idea for a full-length animated feature with Mickey Mouse as the main protagonist.[25]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1955	Lady and the Tramp	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1958	Paul Bunyan	Character Animator (uncredited)
1959	Sleeping Beauty	Character Animator (uncredited)
1960	Goliath II	Character Animator (uncredited)
1961	101 Dalmatians	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1963	The Sword in the Stone	Character Animator (uncredited)
1964	Mary Poppins	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1966	Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree	Animator
1967	The Jungle Book
1968	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
1970	The Aristocats
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1973	Robin Hood	Character Animator
1974	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too	Animator
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
	The Rescuers	Story
	Pete's Dragon
1978	The Small One
1981	The Fox and the Hound
1983	Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore	Animator
	Mickey's Christmas Carol	Writer/Director/Producer
1985	The Black Cauldron	Additional Story Contributions
1986	The Great Mouse Detective	Writer/Director/Producer
1987	The Brave Little Toaster	Additional Story Contributions
1988	Oliver & Company	Special Thanks
1990	The Prince and the Pauper	Storyboard Artist
1991	Beauty and the Beast	Story
1992	Aladdin
1994	The Lion King
1995	Pocahontas
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1998	Mulan
1999	Tarzan
2008	Tinker Bell
2011	Winnie the Pooh	Story Supervisor
2014	Big Hero 6	Story Artist
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Additional Story Artist

Personal life

Mattinson married Sylvia Fry, who also worked as an in-betweener on Sleeping Beauty (1959).[3] They have three children and four grandchildren.[1]

References

Bibliography

• Ghez, Didier (2012). "Burny Mattinson". Walt's People: Volume 12—Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him. Xlibris. pp. 514–550. ISBN 978-1-4771-4789-4.
• Kaytis, Clay (2006). "Burny Mattinson". In Ghez, Didier (ed.). Walt's People: Volume 9—Talking Disney with the Artists who Knew Him. Theme Park Press. pp. 416–472. ISBN 978-1-4500-8746-9.
• Renaut, Christian (2015). "Interview with Burny Mattinson". In Ghez, Didier (ed.). Walt's People: Volume 3—Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him. Theme Park Press. pp. 238–242. ISBN 978-1-9415-0045-3.

External links

• Burny Mattinson at IMDb

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Burnett „Burny“ Mattinson (* 13. Mai 1935 in San Francisco) ist ein US-amerikanischer Animator und Drehbuchautor, der für seine Arbeit für Walt Disney bzw. die Walt Disney Studios bekannt wurde.

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