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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
Floyd Norman was born in 1936. 20 years later, he began at
Disney as an inbetweener on SleepingBeaty, !he Sword in the Stone
and "ary #oppins, as well as many o$ the Stdio%s short
&artoons. Bthe%s more a&'nowledged $or his nmeros
&ontribtions to Disney as a storyman (e)en thogh he ne)erhad
any intention to do that *ob+, &reating stories $or !he -ngle
Boo', re&ently released in a 2dislatinm /dition DD.
From then on, he &ontribted to many Disney &lassi&s,
and his epertise on e)erything &on&erning
animation and his 'nowledge abot alt%s time ma'es him one o$
today%s essential go to4 people when it&omes to Disney lore.
!hat%s the reason he was &alled pon to get in)ol)ed in some o$
the "ose%s re&entpro*e&ts, s&h as "lan and Dinosar, and
was in demand at #iar to help $lesh ot stories s&h as !oyStory
2 and "onsters, 5n&.
No srprise, then, that he was made a Disney egend last
7&tober 2008, a more than $itting honor $or sto se as an
e&se $or loo' ba&' on a legendary and geninely ni&e
artist%s etraordinary &areer inanimation:
Animated Views; hat was yor rea&tion when yo learned yo had
been nominated as a Disney
egendement:that wold be it. 5t was *st s&h asho&'ing
srprise. 5t%s a great honor, o$ &orse, and it%s 'ind o$ hard to
e)alate one%s sel$. 5 ne)erthoght that 5 wold be sele&ted $or
this parti&lar honor, bt it%s *st a wonder$l thing when it
&omesyor way+
AV; !he Disney egend award &elebrates the $a&t that yo
were part
o$ Disney history. ?ow did yo arri)e at the Disney Stdioy little
wit&h, who was )ery &olor$l as well as a s&ary
&hara&ter. or'ing on thatwith "ilt ahl was probably the
&hara&ter 5 en*oyed the most.
AV; !he net $ilm on whi&h yo wor'ed was Mary Poppinsand that
was with Fran' !homas
