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William Jackson
American
Director
Era
Me
People
Today
Up
Work
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When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.
William Jackson
Director
Old
Nine
Later
Trace
Became
Duck
Comics
Years
Covers
Friend
Close
Close Friend
Jack
Donald
Donald Duck
Hannah
Shorts
Use
Many
Film
Copy
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.
William Jackson
Me
Age
Writing
School
Young
Later
Cartooning
Develop
Had
Journalism
Came
However
Been
Very
Young Age
Interest
Much
Skills
Helped
Enjoying
I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television.
William Jackson
Locally
Television
Networks
Over
Era
Were
Mid
Children
Not Interested
Interested
Produced
Show
Shows
Last
Presentation
I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.
William Jackson
Truth
Truth Is
Better
Think
Everything
Would
Era
Up
Ended
Done
Getting
Just
Loved
Much
Differently
I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.
William Jackson
Today
Me
Television
Cartoons
Seem
Mostly
Because
Up
Children
Interest
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
William Jackson
Good
People
Personality
Degree
Own
Characters
Puppet
Some
Someone
My Own
Dirty
Had
Knew
Weird
Combinations
Known
Were
Chicago
Friend
Aspects
Based
Good Friend
Dragon
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.
William Jackson
Home
People
Simple
Made
Accident
Took
Ways
Characteristics
Characters
Puppet
Cartoon
Some
Eccentric
More
Knew
Town
Yes
Little
Home Town
Many
Village
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