UPA Screening Update:

I met these gentleman at the UPA screening, liked them and loved their history and could not remember their full names and details when it came time to label the photos. My friend Paul Husband has kindly supplied both.



Hi Larry,

Thanks for taking and posting those wonderful pix of the UPA tribute. I would like to give you caption info for the picture that you have without a caption, with Fred Crippen on the left talking to two other guys. The two other guys are:

(next to Fred, in the center of the picture): Paul Carlson. Paul produced over 100 Mr. Magoo commercials at UPA. He was Production Coordinator on Gay Purree (sp?) which was also made at UPA. Paul was also the inbetweener when he was at Disney on the "spaghetti kiss" scene of "Lady and the Tramp" . He wrote books on "How to draw" Mickey Mouse and Mr. Magoo, during his Disney and UPA tenures, respectively. In recent years, though uncredited, Paul was brought in to "punch up" the titles of the live action Mr. Magoo movie.

Paul is now working on an independent project, with his friend, the third guy on the right of picture, whose name is : "Bob Longo". Bob also worked at UPA in 1954 -55, and was an inbetweener on "When Magoo Flew" -- and also worked on one of the shorts that was shown at the screening, which one escapes me this moment. Bob started as a camera man. He left UPA, became a physicist, and worked designing aircraft. Since he retired from science/industry, he has gotten together with his old buddy Paul Carlson to make an animated special.

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Best,

Paul  ¶ 6:25 AM