Note 2: Regarding Simon's animation, Børge Ring has the following in an e-mail of 2 April 2006: “The lighthouse scene with organist and bellows could have been designed by Art Babbitt. Simon's "slow motion scenes" were quick from home, but when Allanjo [Allan Johnsen] started paying by the meter, Simon had a lot of cave drawings ordered. "

Børge Ring also has the following comment on Simon's animation: “Simon's drawings had Charisma.

He could also draw terrible things, and then he laughed out loud. For the {commercial cartoon] ‘‘ The Sailor and the Mermaid ’[1950] for Lykkeberg Sild, he drew a scene where the sailor eats herring like a raging. Dave Hand got angry when he saw the line test:

"That man can not draw!"

"But… ..it's Simon!"

"Well, he did not draw well that day."

Pindal says that the difference between the artist and the good craftsman lies in the fact that the latter never makes mistakes. ”

Børge Ring, who knew and for several years collaborated with Simon, and for many years also with Bjørn Frank Jensen, has also given the following comments to my portrayal of cartoon history in general and the two animators mentioned in particular:

Harry:

I have my knowledge of Simon's intermediate drawings from him.

Your comprehensive account of the Torch is personal history. There is no cash information about the making of the film. I often heard about it in Vedbæk from Bjørn and from Simon. What they reported, Ring-Frank and Rønde did in horror at the thought of being entangled in a Clumsy Hans under the guidance of the well-meaning dressmaker and his expert right-hand man.

I like you a lot because you share the love for the medium, but you annoy me by sitting and correcting what Bjørn and Simon say.

FY bad Harry. ”

(Børge Ring in e-mail of 05.04.06).

A few remarks to Børge Ring's comment will be appropriate here: By the term "personal history" he naturally means 'a subjective or personal account', which - especially as regards the production of "Fyrtøjet" - in his opinion allegedly does not contain objectively objective information. But as a daily and relatively trusted employee on the film for a full two years, I naturally admit to my own portrayal of the production process. - "Klods Hans" alludes to the feature film project that Dansk Farve- og Tegnefilm A / S had on the bed 1947-50. See more about this in the section "The cartoon" Klods-Hans ". With the expression "the well-meaning dressmaker and his expert right hand", Børge Ring aims respectively. to the textile manufacturer and wholesaler, director Allan Johnsen, and to the then production assistant Henning Ørnbak. What Børge Ring obviously does not like and therefore blames me is that I have allowed myself to comment and to a certain extent correct, "what Bjørn and Simon tell". That, Børge Ring in his time, when the three worked together in the company "Ring, Frank & Rønde", has heard the two talented cartoonists and animators - and spasmodics - tell about their time with "Fyrtøjet", is obviously a less flattering page of the story of the making of the film. It must be admitted to Børge Ring that director Allan Johnsen did not really have much sense of cartoons and cartoon production, which among other things meant that he, based on his assumptions as primarily a businessman and secondarily as a clothing wholesaler and manufacturer, viewed things from a somewhat different point of view. the cartoonists and animators. But the enthusiasm and daring cannot be taken from Allan Johnsen after all, nor that without him the feature film "Fyrtøjet" would never have been produced. It is also positively wrong to describe Henning Ørnbak as Johnsen's "right hand" at this or any other time. Ørnbak worked in practice as a production assistant, both during the last part of the production period for "Fyrtøjet" and during the start-up of the feature film project "Klods-Hans". To my knowledge, Ørnbak has never pretended to be an expert in cartoon production. Børge Ring has already in an interview in the fanzine "Carl Barks & Co.", no. 17, 1982, in which he enters into the mention of "Fyrtøjet", made statements which clearly show that he does not have much to overs for the said two persons as cartoonists considered. That is Børge Ring's opinion, and all respect for it. But what are facts or not facts in the personal version of the history of Danish cartoons that I have written, it must be up to future researchers in the history of Danish cartoons to decide.