David Hand was an immensely important figure at the Disney studio, but he was rarely interviewed, and his autobiography says very little about his Disney career. My [Michale Barrier] interview with him—supplemented later by correspondence and phone interviews—was almost certainly the only time he talked extensively about his Disney experience for publication. In 1988, I permitted Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston to read this transcript when they were writing their book on Bambi, and Thomas said that one part of the transcript, included here, was "the best description of Walt and the studio and the working arrangements I have ever read." […]
