Note 13 : In the summer of 1977 I had thanks to acquaintance with one of "the nine old men",  Ward Kimball, the opportunity to visit the Disney Studios on Buena Vista Street in Burbank. My guide was on that occasion the Danish-born Edward A. Hansen, who at the time was the Animation Department Manager, and he introduced me to the following Cast Members: Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas and Eric Larson (supervising animators), Vance Gerry (storyman), Ken Anderson (designer), Woolie Reitherman (supervising director), David R. Smith (archive manager) and others. At the time, Johnston and Thomas were just in the process of planning and seek substance of the book "Disney Animation. The Illusion of Life" and they told me candidly and enthusiastically about the book's content and intention, namely to preserve the experience with the production of cartoons, which for so many years was done at Disney Studios.

In their relatively small animation studio, as the two had shared since the 1940s, were installed and mounted several story board panels, and on these were set up animation drawings, for example Snow White, the dwarfs, the evil queen and the witch from the "Snow White" movie, Bambi , Thumper and the owl from the movie of the same name, the tiger Shere Khan from "The Jungle Book" and others. These animation drawings I recognized in the book when it was published in 1981. For me it was a joyful and adventurous experience to see these glorious original animation drawings, which were drawn by some of the, in my opinion, amazingly good, but at the time aging Disney animators.