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David
Thomson
1946-2021
Dave Thomson
was a native of Los Angeles, California holding a degree in Fine Arts
from Chouinard Art Institute where he majored in Film Arts, and he worked
on animated feature films, primarily at the Walt Disney Studio, for
thirty years before retiring. He was an award winning photographer and
a member of the Cinematographer's Guild.
Dave was
a long time writer, researcher and collector of Mark Twain memorabilia
and an honorary member of the Mark Twain Home Foundation Board of Hannibal,
Missouri. He also wrote book and media reviews for the Mark
Twain Forum.
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Dave's
professional career includes the following:
Walt
Disney
Scene Planning:
Beauty and the Beast, 1991
Mickey's
The Prince and the Pauper, (1990)
The
Little Mermaid, 1989
Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988
Oliver
& Company, 1988
The
Great Mouse Detective, 1986
The
Black Cauldron, 1985
The
Fox And The Hound, 1981
The
Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, 1977
Pete's
Dragon, 1977
The
Rescuers, 1977
Robin
Hood, 1973
Acting role:
As Count Dracula:
The Mystery in Dracula's Castle,
1973
Photographic
layout:
The
Walt Disney Story
The
Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal - pics
from the film available online
BOOKS
Dust Jacket Design
and Editing: A RIVER, A TOWN AND A BOY
by Martha Adrian and Roberta Hagood.
Available from Mark Twain Book Shop, 213 Hill St., Hannibal, MO 63401
Phone 573-221-2140
Front and back
jacket of
Hannibal Heritage
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Dust Jacket
Design and
Co-author:
HANNIBAL HERITAGE
J. Hurley & Roberta Hagood, and Dave Thomson,
Heritage House Publishing, 2003.
This book may be ordered from the publisher at:
Josten's
112 S. Main Street U.S.A.
Marceline, MO 64658
Phone toll free: 800-445-2036
The
Hagoods had not planned to publish another book until Dave Thomson showed
them his design for the dust jacket with the title "Hannibal Heritage."
Upon seeing the dust jacket Hurley and Roberta resolved to go ahead with
this final project which was compiled during the time that the couple
both occupied the same room in the Willow Care convalescent home in Hannibal.
Roberta continued working with unflagging energy to complete this collection
after Hurley passed away in November 2002. The book has been received
with enthusiasm in Hannibal since its release in December of 2004 and
continues to be sold in local book stores and gift shops.
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Artistic
contributions to SEARCHING
FOR JIM SLAVERY IN SAM CLEMENS'S WORLD, by Terrell Dempsey (Univ.
of Missouri Press, 2003) including detail of a map of Missouri, photograph
of the headstone of the slave Agness Flautleroy and preparation of contemporary
newspaper advertisements.
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Jacket
photography for:
Vine and Fig Tree:
Salt River County Chronicles, by Goldena Howard (Trafford, 2002)
"Author
Goldena Howard has created a time capsule of people, mores, culture and
language from 1880 - 1960. Set in the fictional communities of Salt River
County, Missouri, the stories capture a time and place that exist only
in the memory of some. The characters are saintly and less-than saintly;
they love and hate, scheme and plan. Themes of honesty, love and wholesomeness
run throughout the stories."
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Dust jacket and
end paper designs (with Ed Garbert):
Drawing by Dave Thomson based on Henry Lewis' panoramic sketchbook
of Hannibal in 1848.
Featured on the front cover and fly leaves of Hannibal Too (1986)
- Hannibal
Bridges the Mississippi, Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Roberta Roland.;
Montgomery, Mary Lou Spaun. (Hannibal-Courier Post, 2000)
- Hannibal
La Grange College History,
Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Roberta. (Josten's, 1995)
- Hannibal
Flood
1993, Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Roberta Roland. (Hannibal-Courier
Post, 1994)
- Hannibal
Yesterdays, Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Roberta Roland, (Josten's, 1992)
- Hannibal
Mark Twain's Town, Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Roberta Roland. (Walsworth,
1987)
- Hannibal
Too,
Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Roberta Roland. (Walsworth, 1986)
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Graphic
contributions from the Dave Thomson collection are also included in:
- Mark
Twain: An American Star,
MacLeod, Elizabeth. (Kids Can Press, 2008)
- The Members
of the Lotos Club, 1870 through 2007, Moskin, Robert J. and Nancy Johnson.
(NY: Lotos Club, 2008)
JOURNAL
ARTICLES
BOOK
AND MEDIA REVIEWS
- Aller, Susan,
Mark Twain:
A & E Biography (Lerner Publications, 2001)
- Burns, Ken and
Dayton Duncan and Geoffrey C. Ward. Mark
Twain, An Illustrated Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
- Chou, Steve,
Hannibal, Missouri:
Bluff City Memories (Arcadia Publishing, 2002)
- Graphic
Classics: Mark Twain, ed. Tom Pomplun (Eureka Productions, 2004)
- Mark
Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns. (PBS Home video, 2002)
- Smith, Llewelyn
and Andrew Ward, The
Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (The American Experience). Alexandria,
VA: PBS Home Video, 2000.
- Tom
Sawyer. Hollywood: Library of Moving Images, 2000. 44 minutes. (Rerelease
of 1917 silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor for Paramount.)
- Ward, Andrew,
Dark Midnight
When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to
the Music of Black America. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2000)
PHOTOGRAPHY
- 1st place winner,
Mississippi River
Museum, National Rivers Hall of Fame, "Images of American Rivers"
Dubuque, Iowa, May, 1989
- Selected images
from Dave Thomson's "Image Harvest"
of Mark Twain's Missouri
OTHER
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