John Hench
John Hench
John Henchwas an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than 65 years, during which saw the creation of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth29 June 1908
CountryUnited States of America
american-artist built main maybe second supposed throw
It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
two dry animation
I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.
optimism fundamentals levels
I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.
sea league special
I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"
paris skeletons people
Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!
cartoon chosen screens
We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
ideas florida done
For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
ideas people dining
Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.
affection walt department
Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
artist bird tape
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
eye artist ideas
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
artist ideas get-better
We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.
artist ideas pirate
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.
artist skeletons pirate
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!