Burny Mattinson, classic Disney animator and director of ‘Basil the Mouse Super Detective’ has died

Burny Mattinson, animator, director, producer and screenwriter from the Disney classic to ‘Weird World’, He died at the age of 87 after a short illness. In 2018 and with 65 years of experience, Mattinson became the longest-serving person at the company; this year, on June 4th, he would have celebrated his 70 years with the company. At the time of his death, he was still working full-time at Walt Disney Animation Studios as a consultant and history artist.

Mattinson said in the tribute the D23 paid him when he broke his first company record, surpassing John Hench’s 64 years, 8 months and 29 days, that it was clear from the age of 6 that what she wanted was to work at Disneyand so much so that he succeeded: “When I joined it was 1953 and I had just graduated from high school. I started out as a delivery boy. I met an animation assistant and he taught me intermediate, which is the first step into animation, and that’s how I started working on ‘Lady and the Tramp’, my first film”. He in the middle It is known in Spanish as motion intermediation or interpolation and is the process of generating the intermediate frames between two images that give a sensation of movement.

Burnett Mattinson was born in San Francisco on May 13, 1935 and ‘Pinocchio’ was the film that inspired his dream. After high school, his mother left him at Disney Studios in Burbank and got a job at the post office. Six months later, and with no formal training, he began working as an interpolator on “Lady and the Tramp”. In addition, he has participated in the animation of classics such as ‘101 Dalmatians’, ‘Merlin the Charmer’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘The Aristocats’, ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘Mary Poppins’ “, but also in modern titles such as ‘Big Hero 6’ and ‘Strange World’.

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As a screenwriter, he has collaborated on the stories of ‘The Rescuers’, ‘Tod and Toby’, ‘Taron and the Magic Cauldron’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘Pocahontas’, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Tarzan’.

He directed only one feature film, ‘Basil the Super Mouse Detective’, and one TV movie, ‘DTV Monster Hits’. His accomplishments include bringing Mickey Mouse back to the big screen after 30 years away from television and he did so with Mickey’s Christmas (1983), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Mattinson was named a Disney Legend in 2008.

“Burny’s artistry, generosity and love for Disney Animation and the generations of storytellers who have walked through our doors over seven decades have made us better: best artists, best technologists and best collaborators”Jennifer Lee, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, said in a statement: “All of us who have had the honor of knowing and learning from him will ensure that his legacy continues.”