Doors were locked nearly half an hour before the lecture began, and hundreds were turned away, as Robin D. Field '30, assistant professor of Fine Arts, talked in the Fogg auditorium yesterday on "Animation," the third in a series of four public lectures he is giving on "The Art of Walt Disney."
"The animators are the great stars; they infuse life and movement into Disney's pictures," Field told the overflow audience. "Communal and anonymous, their work is directly in line with that of the great masters."
"A picture is conceived in the story department, goes through a period of gestation, has labor pains in the photographic room, and comes to life on the screen. But it is the animator who endows the picture with its life spirit," Feild stated.
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