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Frank Thomas: The Key-Playing Key Animator
Posted on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 09:33
“I hear you’ve got the best scene in the picture,” Walt remarked dryly.
Walt characteristically never gave praise, and key animator Frank Thomas knew that that statement may be the best he would ever get.
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The sequence in question, which Frank had revived after Walt had cut after seeing the storyboards, was the iconic scene in Lady and the Tramp (1955) where the two title characters shared a plate of spaghetti.
Franklin Thomas was born on September 5, 1912 in Fresno, CA.
Like Walt, Frank had interests in drawing that started during his childhood and filmmaking in his teenage years. Academic excellence ran in the family, as Frank’s father was President of Fresno State College—now California State University, Fresno—and Frank continued in the tradition, graduating from Stanford University before attending the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
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