RAY PATIN
Amazing Animators No. 9
RAY PATIN
Ray Maurice Patin nasce a Lafayette, in Louisiana, il 14 ottobre 1906, da Maurice Patin e Therese Durand, entrambi nati in Louisiana ma di origini francesi. Ha una sorella maggiore, Vinnie Therese. Suo padre è fondatore del quotidiano Daily Advertiser. Nel 1920 i Patin vivono ad Albuquerque, New Mexico. La famiglia si trasferisce poi in California nei primi anni Venti.
Ray debutta nel campo dell’animazione nei primi anni Trenta, presso lo studio di Charles Mintz. Passa poi allo Studio di Hugh Harman e Rudolph Ising.
Il 17 settembre 1932 sposa a Los Angeles la californiana Maxine Jane Riley (1914-2010), che gli dà una figlia, Renee, nel 1939.
Nel dicembre 1937 Patin è approdato alla Disney, dove è uno degli animatori dei cortometraggi di Topolino e poi di Paperino fino al 1941.
Dopo il grande sciopero del 1941 passa allo studio Schlesinger/Warner Bros., come animatore e sceneggiatore.
Nel 1944 collabora con l’Industrial Fim and Poster Service (che diverrà poi UPA) e inizia a disegnare storie a fumetti per il Sangor Shop, capeggiato da Jim Davis. Un anno dopo diviene presidente della Screen Cartoonists Guild e lascia la Warner per seguire Davis allo studio Carry-Weston di J. Richard Weston, dove è uno degli animatori del film promozionale per la Difesa The Inside Story of Seaman Joe.
Nel 1947 fonda la Ray Patin Productions, studio che realizza moltissimi cortometraggi pubblicitari fino al 1962.
Scompare a Burbank, in California, il 16 gennaio 1976.
Ray Maurice Patin was born October 14, 1906 in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Maurice Patin and Therese Durand, both born in Louisiana from French families. Ray had an elder sister, Vinnie Therese. His father founded the Daily Advertiser newspaper. By 1920 the Patins were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The family then moved to California in the early twenties.
Ray made his debut in animation in the early thirties, at Charles Mintz’s studio. He then went to work for Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising.
On 17 settembre 1932, in Los Angeles, Ray married Maxine Jane Riley (1914-2010), and a daughter, Renee, was born in 1939.
In December, 1937 Patin entered the Disney Studio, where he animated on Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck shorts until 1941.
After the 1941 strike he moved to the Schlesinger/Warner Bros. Studio, as an animator and story-man.
In 1944 he was part of Industrial Fim and Poster Service (which later became UPA) and he started drawing comics for the Sangor Shop, headed by Jim Davis. The following year he was appointed president of the Screen Cartoonists Guild and he left Warners to join Davis at J. Richard Weston’s Carry-Weston studio, where he animated on the defense film The Inside Story of Seaman Joe.
He then went back to Disneys as an animator and story-man, staying for about a year.
In 1947 he founded Ray Patin Productions, a studio which produced lots of animated commercials until 1962.
Patin passed away in Burbank, California, on January 16, 1976.
FILMOGRAFIA/FILMOGRAPHY
Studio: CHARLES MINTZ/COLUMBIA c.1930-1933
Animatore/Animator
c.1930-1933 Cortometraggi non identificati /Unidentified shorts
Studio: HARMAN-ISING 1934-1937
Animatore/Animator
1934-1938 Cortometraggi non identificati /Unidentified shorts
Studio: DISNEY 13/12/1937-1941/1946-16/01/1947
Animatore/Animator
03/02/1939 Society Dog Show [Mickey Mouse]
30/06/1939 Sea Scouts [Donald Duck]
01/09/1939 The Autograph Hound [Donald Duck]
17/05/1940 Bill Posters [Donald & Goofy]
07/06/1940 Mr. Duck Steps Out [Donald Duck]
09/08/1940 Donald’s Vacation [Donald Duck]
20/09/1940 Window Cleaners [Donald Duck]
13/12/1940 Fire Chief [Donald Duck]
10/01/1941 Timber [Donald Duck]
11/07/1941 Early to Bed [Donald Duck]
01/08/1941 Truant Officer Donald [Donald Duck]
12/09/1941 Old MacDonald Duck [Donald Duck]
10/04/1942 Donald’s Snow Fight [Donald Duck]
01/05/1942 Donald Gets Drafted [Donald Duck]
06/11/1942 Sky Trooper [Donald Duck]
18/12/1942 Bellboy Donald [Donald Duck]
27/08/1947 Inferior Decorator [Donald Duck]
27/05/1948 Melody Time [Sequence: Little Toot]
15/10/1948 Soup’s On [Donald Duck]
05/11/1948 Three for Breakfast [Donald Duck]
Sceneggiatore/Story Man
20/06/1947 Clown of the Jungle [Donald Duck]
Studio: SCHLESINGER/WARNER BROS. 1942-1944
Animatore/Animator
25/02/1943 Point Rationing of Foods
Sceneggiatore/Story Man
1943-1945 Cortometraggi non identificati /Unidentified shorts
Studio: INDUSTRIAL FILM AND POSTER SERVICE 1944
Animatore/Animator
11/07/1944 Hell-Bent for Election
Studio: CARRY-WESTON c.1945
Sceneggiatore/Story Man
00/00/1946 The Inside Story of Seaman Joe
Studio: RAY PATIN PRODUCTIONS 1947-1962
Proprietario, animatore, sceneggiatore e produttore/Owner, animator, story man, producer
1947-1962 Cortometraggi pubblicitari per/Animated commercials for:
Bardahl Motor Oil
Bar-S Meats
Campbell’s Soup
Clorophyllin
Cut-Rite Wax Paper
Detroit Bank & Trust Co.
Flako
Godchaux Sugar
Gulf Oil
JAX Beer
Jell-O
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
Kellogg’s Sugar Pops
L&M Cigarettes
Libby’s Corn
Rainier Beer
Ralston Purina Co.
Sugar Crisps & Poast Toasties
3M
Trend Detergent
Tru-View
Wisco Gasoline
Woolyn Soap
et al
FUMETTOGRAFIA/COMICOGRAPHY
Editore/Publisher: AMERICAN COMICS GROUP (aka CRESTON)
Korky – Ha Ha Comics #25 (1946).
Editore/Publisher: STANDARD (aka Animated Cartoons, Polo, Better, Nedor, Pines)
Fearless Farmsworth – Coo Coo Comics #6, 42 (1945/48).
Willie Wurtle – Barnyard Comics #13 (1947).
The Whiz Horse – Merry-Go-Round Comics #2 (1948).
Editore/Publisher: WILLIAM H. WISE
Fin an’ Gill – America’s Funniest Comics #2 (1944).
Si Klops – America’s Funniest Comics #2 (1944).