I interviewed Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston together for a second time on July 13, 1987, almost eleven years after my first interview with them. We met at their adjoining homes in Flintridge, California. I recall that we sat outside, but in whose yard I could not say. We had been in touch frequently since our 1976 interview and would continue to be; my file of correspondence with Frank alone is more than an inch thick.
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As with the 1976 interview, I sent a copy of the transcript to both Frank and Ollie (in 1989—transcribing the tapes was a time-consuming job), and they returned a single copy to me with their changes. I’ve incorporated those changes, most of them made for the sake of clarity or accuracy, in the transcript as it appears here. As with the earlier interview, I haven’t made a few changes that were intended only to avoid giving offense to colleagues who are, like Frank and Ollie themselves, now deceased, Ward Kimball in particular.
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