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Interview with Marge Champion

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	discs 1-2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-2467 discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2467 transcript	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Aloff, Mindy, 1947-

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 91 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 59 min.). Marge Champion discusses working as a model for animators at Walt Disney Studios [Walt Disney Productions]; her parents, particularly her father, Ernest Belcher, and his work as a ballet teacher; auditioning for Disney; the process of creating animation from live action models; the practice of rotoscoping; her early performances; her training and teaching experiences including with Shirley Temple and Cyd Charisse; her first day on the job as Snow White; life on the film set; her brief marriage to animator Art Babbitt; the hard working conditions in the film industry at that time; more on her contribution to Snow White; her contribution to the film Fantasia; her personal record of the creation of these dances through the on-set film shot by Babbitt; the opening screening of Snow White and secrecy regarding the existence of a Snow White model.
Disc 2 (ca. 32 min.). Marge Champion speaks about the difference between choreography and simple dance direction; meeting Walt Disney; the poor compensation received by Disney animators; the role that her education, early performances and experiences at Disney had throughout her life; the transition from performing with husband Gower Champion to assisting him as a director and choreographer.

Donor/Sponsor

New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.

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Subjects

Note

Interview with Marge Champion conducted by Mindy Aloff on July 28, 2005 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in New York City.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2467.

Access (note)

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2467

OCLC

NYPY06-R65

Author

Champion, Marge. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Marge Champion [sound recording].

Imprint

2005.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Champion, M.

Added Author

Aloff, Mindy, 1947- Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2467 [sound disc]

*MGZMT 3-2467 [transcript]