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Packard and William Hewlett, a Stanford classmate ('34), started the electronics company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 with a $600 stake. Their first sale of any consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare...
Died. Vladimir Tytla, 64, one of the original Walt Disney cartoonists, who helped enthrall millions of youngsters in the 1930s and '40s with his airborne pachyderms (Dumbo), fearsome giants (Night on Bald Mountain) and great spouting whales (Pinocchio); of a stroke; in Flanders, Conn...
...WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Zoologist Henry Del Guidice and the crew of his schooner track a giant sea turtle across 1,500 miles of open sea to study its navigational ability in "Solomon, the Sea Turtle...
...entire presentation was appropriate for the men of the Apollo 8 crew. Flying in the wake of Apollo 7, with the irrepressible Walter Schirra and his rollicking "Wally, Walt and Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are deadly serious men, cool under pressure and addicted to speech filled with space jargon. Borman, 40, is a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, and during the Apollo 8 mission read a prayer addressed to "the people of St. Christopher's [his church], actually to people everywhere." He also inspired...
...sketches were then turned over to a roster of 40 animators and 140 technical artists, who made some 500,000 drawings altogether. This is considerably less art work than was used by Walt Disney, whose techniques were developed to simulate the motions of real life. Animators like John Hubley rebelled against Disney's sleek realism. They produced films that frankly displayed their characters as drawings, not people. Backgrounds were not landscapes, but sketches. The results were such creations as Gerald McBoing Doing and Mr. Magoo. Candidly stylized, outrageously unrealistic, they made a kind of claim to be art. Edelmann...