Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston on The Tonight Show (1982)

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston Lecture at CalArts (1990)

Here is a rare lecture by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston at CalArts from the early 1990's. Big thanks to Premise Entertainment for posting it! Also, due to the low volume you'll have to crank up the audio.

'Lessons from Frank and Ollie' on Deja View

Andreas Deja posted on his blog today 'Lessons from Frank and Ollie' featuring a fantastic video from the 80's designed to promote Frank and Ollie's book The Illusion of Life. It's full of great material and their Observation lecture is awesome. Check it out here:

// Lessons from Frank and Ollie

Frank Thomas Honors Art Babbitt

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// Animating Art 

It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story (1989)

This old school Disney Channel special 'It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story' is chock-full of great material on the history of Disney along with commentary by Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, Ward Kimball, Marc Davis, Ken Anderson, Richard Williams, and a slew of others.

'Secret Lives' Walt Disney (1995)

This is great documentary about the 'less public' side of Walt Disney and the history of the studio. It includes interviews with Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Bill Melendez, William Hurtz and others.

// 'Secret Lives' Walt Disney
     via Behind The Scenes blog 

The Life And Times Of Pluto

This is short featurette about the history of 'Pluto'. Frank, Ollie, Andreas Deja, and John Canemaker talk about the development of Pluto's character. 






Mickey's Elephant (1936)

A Story of Dogs (1954)

This is a short behind the scenes look at 'Lady and the Tramp'. There are some nice story sketches and pencil tests featured in the first two clips (some you might have already seen before). Milt and Frank also appear briefly to explain to the audience parts of the animation process.

Part 3 (cartoons)

Part 4 (cartoons)