In Pasadena, Nineteen years ago... in the quiet part of a hospital room, legendary animator Eric Larson, one of Disney's "Nine Old Men" passes from this world and joins Walt in the next.
Eric Larson was an animation director on such Disney classics as Fantasia, Dumbo and I'm not lying here, Pinocchio. After Walt's passing, he was the one that made sure they found and trained all new talent. From those ranks trained under his tutelage were Brad Bird, Glen Keane, John Lasseter and many others. His last work for the Mouse was "The Great Mouse Detective", which is the dawn of the Second Golden Age of Disney Animation.
How fitting that his last work would be what would start the rebirth of the famed animation studio...
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