After I left for my own studio, Bill would subcontract to my studio for films when they were overloaded with work and needed extra help. I needed to work for the first year for legal reasons, getting my green card, and I worked for Bill Hanna for the first year. RC: That was when I first came to America.
THE YELLOW SUBMARINE CARTOON TV
Consequently, fans of “The Yellow Submarine” and all the people who watched the Beatles TV cartoon show that I directed as a young man, people who remember that television show with a lot of pleasure pass that pleasure on to their children.ĭT: How did you begin working with Hanna-Barbera?
I meet children who are like two years old, five years old, ten years old, twenty years old, all fans of the Beatles. Parents who love the Beatles somehow have a habit of passing their enthusiasm on to their children. I meet Beatles fans of all ages, and I really mean all ages. RC: It’s amazing how many young people still listen to the Beatles. I was the first generation able to earn a living in Australia doing animation, which was fortunate for me, and enabled me to get into animation at all.ĭT: How do you feel about your work on “The Yellow Submarine” and the Beatles cartoon being enjoyed by such a broad audience? Just as I came out of art school in Australia, television came and for the first time there was a demand for television commercials and animation. “You mean I can do drawings that can come alive?” I carried that with me in a way through my student-age years into art school. It really struck me as a remarkable thing. Ron Campbell: I got started when I learnt, as a six year old, that “Tom and Jerry” cartoons I’d watch on a Saturday afternoon were actually drawings. 23-25 in Austin, where he will be demonstrating his skills and selling his work to benefit charity.ĭaily Texan: What inspired you to become an animator?
Campbell spoke with the Texan in preview of an exhibition of his art Feb. For decades, children have enjoyed cartoons such as “Scooby-Doo,” “The Yellow Submarine,” “Winnie the Pooh” and “Rugrats.” Having played a major role in the animation and storyboarding of these cartoons, Ron Campbell is an international animation sensation with a career spanning half a century.
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