A minute with Barks

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

PETER (including one question to GIANFRANCO:

> You all seem to know Carl Barks personally, why don`t I? I`d
> give anything to get one line of him or speak to
> him for only a minute!!!

Why do you think we know Barks personally? At least I don't. Maybe 
there are *a few* people here who did *see* him during his tour, but 
knowing him personally... I don't think so. Maybe you can say that 
Don knew Barks personally, but of what I heard that was only a 
correspondence about stories and shaking his hands one time.

But... *if* you had a chance to speak with Barks for a minute and you 
would be able to ask him some questions: What questions would you ask?
Me, I don't know what I would have asked him. 

> I`d give anything to get one line of him or speak to him for only a 
> minute!!!

Would you?

>> Copyright laws??? Which copyright laws???
 
> Well it might have been that other countries have other laws
> than we have in Germany, that`s why I mentioned it. But it
> seems to be the same, so there shouldn`t be any problem.

I think "ignoring" those copyright laws by only sending you that 
tape, would be the same as copying a CD for a friend.

But, copyright laws in other countries, as you say. Gianfranco, what 
about copyright laws in Italy? I've heard it's a paradise for 
bootleggers there.

> I have an index containing those [Barks] scripts, but not for those
> after 1974.

Did you know that Barks also made a script for a Scrooge cartoon, 
back in the fifties? It was about a mouse in his moneybin. He draw 
story-board of nine pages, but they are lost now. Only his 
accompanying synopsis of that cartoon has survived (published in 
C.B.L.). The cartoon was never made. 

The animated Scrooge only had a brief appearance in Disney's TV show 
in the fifties. He did appear in his own cartoon "Uncle Scrooge 
Tells about Money" (1967), but I've heard he wasn't very Barksian 
there.

ALL: Is there someone who has that cartoon in his collection?


--- Daniel


"No quotations today" (P. Coenen)