{"id":30,"date":"2005-02-26T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-02-26T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T20:33:40","slug":"the-good-huemer-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/26\/the-good-huemer-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Huemer Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Being the proprietor of Scrappyland<\/a> has its fringe benefits–none more pleasant than the opportunity to meet Dr. Richard P. Huemer, son of Scrappy’s creator, Dick Huemer. (See my terrible cameraphone picture to the right.)<\/p>\n

Dr. Huemer, who was in San Francisco with his wife Mary Kay for a medical conference, has a wonderful Web site<\/a> with lots of material on his father’s work, and has a general appreciation for Dick Huemer’s legacy. He shared other tidbits during our visit–some of which weren’t surprising, such as the fact that Dick was probably most proud of his work on Fantasia<\/em> and Dumbo<\/em>. But did you know that Dick Huemer and Joe Grant almost left Disney for MGM, or that Roy Williams had a game show that Dick wrote for? Or that Dick and A.C. Gamer formed a company together that did very early animated TV commercials?<\/p>\n

As for what it was like to grow up with a father who worked for Walt Disney, Dr. Huemer said it didn’t occur to him that this was anything of note–especially since some of the kids who he hung out with had movie stars for parents. But he did like getting to ride Ward Kimball’s train, to eat in the Disney commisary, and to meet Walt himself.<\/p>\n

I’m sorry that I never got to meet the Dick Huemer who worked in the animation business for so long–I did read and love his Funnyworld<\/em> writings–but I’m delighted to have gotten the chance to meet the charming gent named Dick Huemer (and his equally charming spouse) who I had lunch with today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being the proprietor of Scrappyland has its fringe benefits–none more pleasant than the opportunity to meet Dr. Richard P. Huemer, son of Scrappy’s creator, Dick Huemer. (See my terrible cameraphone picture to the right.) Dr. Huemer, who was in San Francisco with his wife Mary Kay for a medical conference, has a wonderful Web site … Continue reading “The Good Huemer Man”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}