This was [Michael Barrier's] second full-dress interview with the Disney director Jack Kinney. He was joined on this occasion by his second wife, the former Eva Jane Sinclair, who had been his secretary and assistant director at the Disney studio. [Michael Barrier] recorded the interview on November 3, 1976, at the Kinneys' home in Sunland, California, a suburb north of Los Angeles.
As the taping began, [they] were discussing the 1941 Disney strike. Jane Kinney mentioned that she had worked as a secretary in the Bambi unit, in an office between Dave Hand, Bambi's supervising director, and Dave Hilberman, a layout artist, just before the strike, and so had a good look at both sides.
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Jane came to Los Angeles from Omaha. According to Becky Cline, the Disney archivist, she joined the Disney staff in story research on June 19, 1939, and resigned on August 18, 1950, probably around the time she and Jack married. Jane was also married for a few years in the early 1940s to the Disney background artist Ralph Hulett.
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As with the 1973 interview, I haven't made any special effort to line up Jack's remarks here with his 1988 memoir, Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters, but there is of course some overlap, as with the Ken Darby anecdote.
At the beginning of the 1976 interview, talk of the strike led Jack to speak of Gunther Lessing's role as the studio's attorney.
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