Walt Disney by Bob Thomas

Author:Bob Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2017-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Walt reached Seversky and said he wanted to make a film of Victory Through Air Power. Within a few weeks the project had started with the crew that had recently completed Bambi after five years of production. Because of the urgency of its theme and the changing world events, the new film had to be finished within months.

By July, preliminary storyboards had been prepared, and Seversky came to the studio to assist. He and Walt proved good collaborators, sparking ideas off each other:

WALT: Do you think there is anything in taking the people back forty years and showing the progress we have made? It would be a little reminiscent thing. Show how progress in this speeded up during the first war and then slowed down a bit in peacetime and then shot up again during this war.

SEVERSKY: Sure. And for this war the progress will still be faster. You could point out that when the Germans bombed Coventry they used five hundred airplanes and unloaded two hundred and fifty tons of bombs. And today at Rostov, fifty planes carried two hundred and fifty tons of bombs. In two years, a ratio of ten to one….

WALT: We leave here to go back forty years ago to the historic Wright Brothers taking off and show this telegram and then that little item in the newspaper about their being home for Christmas. Then suppose we move along to the start of the last war and how everything advances in wartimes. Show how when the last war started they didn’t even have enough guns in their planes, then go on up a few years when they have these dogfights and fancy maneuvers.

SEVERSKY: Yes, they had the Sikorsky bombers within three years.

WALT: And at the beginning of the war, range was practically nothing. But right after the war, they had this Navy plane nonstop flight to the Azores.

SEVERSKY: And then you could show how commercial aviation had developed wonderfully since then. Of course, we paid no attention to the military end, and the military planes did not develop as fast as the commercial. But since the beginning of the war we have advanced terrifically….

WALT: What did you use in the war—a gun?

SEVERSKY: Well, back in 1915, all I had was a pistol. Then later we used automatic rifles and then we started using machine guns.

WALT: At first, you know, they used to wave to each other when they passed each other on their way to their destination. Then one Frenchman put some bricks in his plane; he didn’t want to wave at the Germans, and the next time he passed, he threw a brick at a German. And from there it progressed to dogfighting.

SEVERSKY: Karsikoff was flying with a big heavy ball with a hook on it, and when he met another plane, he threw the ball out and the hook would catch on the enemy plane. This ball would have another ball attached to it, and the other ball would tear up the plane. He downed a couple of planes that way….

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