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		Dean Yeagle (Continued from Page 1 ) Then I had to go into the service during Viet Nam; I was in the navy. After that my wife and I moved to New York. For the first seven years I worked at Zander’s Animation Parlour as a designer and animator and eventually a director. Jack Zander was a great animator of the old Tom & Jerry cartoons; he recently celebrated his 99th birthday. Afterwards I opened my own company called “Caged Beagle Productions” with Nancy Beiman and Daryl Cagle. Nancy is a great animator who worked for Disney and is now teaching in Rochester New York. Daryl is editor of the MSNBC editorial cartoon site now. And as of 2006 I’m living in Southern California. JF: How did you get involved in such a fringe project as reviving “The Gremlins?” DY: It was originally Dark Horse’s idea. Mike Richardson is the company head, and he also works in movies as a producer and director, and it was his idea to reprint the original book that Disney put out in 1943. It was Roald Dahl’s very first book, and Dahl was a flyer for the British air force at the time. The basic premise is that there are these little gremlins who are messing up the British airplanes. People started saying that when anything went wrong, it was the work of the gremlins. After he wrote it, it got to Disney, Disney bought the book, and they were going to do a feature film. In fact, I have storyboards from it that they sent me.
		(c) Dean Yeagle	But various things happened, including the war ending, and they never made the movie. Another thing was that Warner Brothers took the gremlin idea and came out with a couple very funny gremlin cartoons by Bob Clampett, and that was another reason why Disney killed the project. The gremlin from the Bugs Bunny cartoon “Falling Hare” looked very much like Disney’s, as a matter of fact.
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