PETE ALVARADO DISNEY 0801-073 RESCUERS DOWN UNDER ORIGINAL PUBLICATION ART
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This original drawing for publication on vintage animation or tissue paper was done by my father, Hollywood artist and animator, Pete Alvarado It has been stored in my smoke-free house out of the light.
The Rescuers Down Under
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The Rescuers Down Under
Directed by
Hendel Butoy
Mike Gabriel
Produced by
Thomas Schumacher
Screenplay by
Jim Cox
Karey Kirkpatrick
Byron Simpson
Joe Ranft
Based on
Characters created
by Margery Sharp
The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990. The 29th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film is the sequel (Disney's first for one of their animated films) to the 1977 Disney animated film The Rescuers, which was based on the novels of Margery Sharp.
This film, along with Fantasia 2000 and Winnie the Pooh are the only Disney sequels that are part of the Disney animated features canon, as all three were produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was the second film released during the Disney Renaissance (1989–1999) era, which had begun the year before with The Little Mermaid.
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About My Father...
Pete Alvarado
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Alvarado was born in Raton, New Mexico, and grew up in Glendale, California. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute in the 1930; after graduation he was hired as an assistant animator by the Walt Disney Studio. He provided uncredited work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.[1] Around 1939 Alvarado left Disney to find work in New York City, where he provided his earliest comic book art for Funnies Inc., which supplied artwork for Fawcett Publications and Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics).[2]
Alvarado returned to California and Disney Studio in 1941. He left Disney in 1946 to work for Warner Bros. Animation. Alvarado became the Background painter for Chuck Jones, and his first screen credit was on the 1947 Pepé Le Pew short, "Scent-imental Over You." He held this position until 1951, Working on several cartoons such as the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous, and Chuck Jones oscar winning short For Scent-imental Reasons. His last work with Jones was "Scentimental Romeo" in 1951, another cartoon featuring Pepé Le Pew.[3] Alvarado went on to Replace Cornett Wood as chief layout artist for Robert McKimson's unit.
After Warner Bros. Animation studios closed their doors, Alvarado joined DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. He worked on several Pink Panther shorts, as well as the short lived animated series Super President.
Around 1971 Alvarado joined Hanna-Barbera as a layout artist; he worked on such series as The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971), Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974), and many others. Alvarado also provided animation and layout work for Film Roman (Garfield and Friends).
Alvarado was the recipient of the 2001 Winsor McCay Award, for his lifetime of achievement in animation, as well as the Animation Guild's 1987 Golden Award.
Comic books
Concurrently with his animation work, Alvarado also worked as a prolific comic book illustrator. As noted above, he worked from 1939 to 1941 providing artwork for Funnies Inc. Alvarado returned to the comic book world in 1947, in collaboration with Charles McKimson (brother of animator Robert McKimson). McKimson was the art director at Western Publishing Company, and the two (in collaboration with Charles' brother Thomas) drew the Roy Rogers strip under the pen name "Al McKimson."[4] Alvarado went on to draw the Gene Autry newspaper strip and comic book, the Mr. Magoo newspaper strip for its entire run, a long period of the Little Lulu newspaper strip, some work on the Flintstones and Yogi Bear newspaper strip, and fill-in work for almost all the Disney newspaper strips, including an extended period as the main artist on Donald Duck.[5]
The bulk of Alvarado's work at Western was for their "funny animal" line of comic books. Alvarado provided artwork for almost every Disney (Chip 'n Dale, Scamp), Warner Bros. (Tweety & Sylvester, Road Runner), Hanna-Barbera (Yogi Bear) and Walter Lantz (Andy Panda) licensed title. He also illustrated comic book adaptations of the animated films The Rescuers, Robin Hood, and Gay Purr-ee.[6]
Alvarado retired from animation in 1999. He died of a heart attack on December 27, 2003, in La Crescenta, California.
Notes
- ^ [1] Evanier, Mark, "Pete Alvarado (1920-2004)". news from ME website. Last accessed 03/13/2007.
- ^ [2] Pete Alvarado bio. ASIFA-Hollywood biopedia. Last accessed 3/13/2007.
- ^ [3] Comic Book Database website. Last accessed 03/13/2007.
- ^ [4]"Pete Alvarado". Comic Book DB website. Last accessed 03/30/2007/
- ^ Comic Book Database, ibid.
- ^ Evanier, ibid.
External links
- Pete Alvarado at the Internet Movie Database
- Pete Alvarado at the INDUCKS
- Pete Alvarado biography on Lambiek
- Extensive list of Alvarado credits at Who's Who Bio
- For Pete's Sake!