Ron Clark Productions 1953-1957

     
      RON CLARK PRODUCTIONS- 1953-1957

In 1953, a year after I finished 2 years of Secondary School, I came across a tall fellar, Ron Clark, one year older than me, a mutual friend of a fellow ex-student of BSHS, Frank Moss, at the latter's 18th. birthday party. Ron was a current art student of International Correspondence Schools (ICS) and was also intent on starting up an animation studio under his mum's house. I eagerly agreed to join his animation project as we were both admirers of Disney and the other studios of the day and could not see why we could not master the art ourselves. We engaged in that for four years, part time. Ron and I both worked as clerks in different departments of Brisbane City Council. 

We learned a lot and gained some drawing skills but did not exactly master the art. I do attribute my early simplified cartooning style to that required for animation and developed in those years (more on that in a later post). My first marriage in September 1957, however, put an end to a young man's spare evenings on such a concentrated pursuit and I moved on to a varied career, although a temporary one before my ART called louder.

Ron and I caught up again only in our retirement years -in 2012. Sadly, Ron passed away in December 2018. Head over to the RON CLARK PRODUCTIONS page for photos and sketches of some of us involved with the studio. There is some artwork there, too, including Stills from our epic production. Meantime, here is a photo of Ron and me in 2012.