Brian,
I stumbled across your pages in the course of unrelated searches. I thought you might be interested in the audio from my old Jay Ward Film Festival (which I held at UCLA in 1982, which included Bill Scott, June Foray, and others). I also have a more recent interview with June when she came over to my studio (she lives nearby) a couple of years ago, but it’s not online currently. But both she and Bill were the highlights of the Festival, including the live script reading and Q&A. Plus Walker Edmiston was great too! Anyway, it’s at: Jay Ward, etc.
–Lauren–
Dear Lauren:
I have read, quite a few times, about that 1982 Jay Ward film festival. So you are the one who orchestrated that?!?……….Also an honor to hear from you, for that reason. I have read about that, both on-line, and also in Keith Scott’s book, THE MOOSE THAT ROARED.
I will listen to the audio, as soon as I finish this email to you. It is curious that that festival was held in 1982. That was a pivotal year, in my life, because I finished my B.A. in Spanish that year and forged on ahead to my new life as an independent, young adult, living on my own. I was born in 1959, right around the time that Rocky and Bullwinkle first got started, and then I graduated, in ’82, when that reunion of sorts, took place, for all the Jay Ward gang…….What a coincidence!
If you get a chance, to email me back, later on, who was Walker Edmiston? Also, if the recent June Foray article, is available, in some form or the other, I’d love to read it! I am trying to keep myself knowledgable, on this web page, by reading everything that is available, about the Jay Ward voice artists.
Brian
Friday, June 15, 2001
About the Jay Ward Festival, from ’82, that you claim I orchestrated…………to quote Bill Scott, “I plead guilty!” I got the idea, then did most of the footwork–went through hell to get the prints from Detroit (the show was not available in any normal sense at that time), get the folks together, set things up, projected the films, etc. I had no sense at the time of its significance.
At the time, I didn’t realize that it would apparently (according to June) be the *only* such gathering of them ever recorded.
About Walker Edmiston, whom I mentioned took part in the voice work that day, he was another one of the great old timer voice men in animation: “Time for Beanie”, etc.
As far as at the June Foray interview, that I told you about, is concerned, there actually is no article, just my raw tape of the most recent interview–eventually an edited version of it will get online…
Unfortunately, the Jay Ward voice actors circle is now a very small living circle, though as I mentioned, June lives very close by.
Lauren