![]() Admission is free.The animated Beatles' film "Yellow Submarine" in VHS format. Info: Meet Ron Campbell: The artist will paint, talk to visitors and show his work at the Cornell Museum from 10 a.m. Where: Old School Square and Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, and other venues around townĪdmission: $29.50 a day for general admission, $89.50 for concert VIP or $152.50 for weekend VIP. When: March 26-29, with music events March 27-28 “I’m sorry,” he tells the fans, “but you can’t shake the hand that shook the hand.”Īnd surely his favorite Beatles song must be Yellow Submarine? Ron Campbell drew John, Paul, George and Ringo, but no, he never met them. But hand-drawn work has a softness and pleasantness that computers can’t capture.”īy now, you’re no doubt asking what all who come to his exhibits ask. Computers can do things no human being can hope to do. CGI is cold, but with great story lines and beautiful design and very expressive production. “CGI belongs to the young people,” Campbell says, without bitterness. But while the Beatles and Yellow Submarine have endured, the art of hand-drawn animation that he mastered has faded as Pixar and Disney’s computer-generated imagery has taken its place. He’s retired now, traveling to Beatles shows about once a month. “It’s varied, it’s rich, it’s not monotonous, and every song is different, with magical phrasing in it.”Ĭampbell turned 80 in December. “That’s because their rock ’n’ roll music is good,” he says. ![]() “I didn’t even mention it when I was giving my bios and stuff,” he says.īut the rock band he hadn’t paid attention to in 1964 didn’t go away, and the psychedelic cartoon he’d help draw still draws praise and fans. He helped complete about 12 minutes of the finished Yellow Submarine film, work that took about eight months. The Beatles cartoon TV series ran for four years at the height of Beatlemania, and in 1967 Brodax called again, asking Campbell to contribute to the upcoming feature film.īy then, he’d moved to California, worked for Hanna-Barbera’s Smurfs series and opened his own company, Ron Campbell Films. “This was hundreds of little girls drowning out the music, so I hadn’t taken a second’s notice of it. “I was a serious young man listening to classical music,” Campbell says, speaking from his home in Arizona. ![]() “Al,” Campbell told him, “insects make terrible characters for a children’s show.” “With the Beatles, you not only get the attraction of cartoons, you also have the love of the music.”Ī graduate of the Swinburne Art Institute in Melbourne, Campbell was already established, animating Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat cartoons when his director, Al Brodax, called in the middle of the night. “I’d say it’s 50% Beatles,” Campbell says. It was Campbell who helped bring the Sea of Time sequence to the screen, the Chief Blue Meanie and his sidekick Max, and of course, “Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D.,” the Nowhere Man.īefore that, he’d animated the hit Beatles TV cartoons back home in his native Australia, and afterward he’d go on to work on Scooby-Doo and The Smurfs, the Flintstones, Jetsons and Rugrats.īeloved characters all, but when Campbell appears at cartoon festivals, sharing his memories and selling his artwork, the cartoon characters who draw the biggest crowds are the ones based on four real human beings. You’ll hear “McCartney Mania,” with a full orchestra, and even a performance by Micky Dolenz, former drummer for those “prefab four,” The Monkees.Īlso promised is a display of artwork by the some of the Beatles at the Cornell Art Museum in Old School Square, where you'll have a chance to meet and hear Ron Campbell, but he won't be singing Yellow Submarine.Ĭampbell was 28 and already a veteran cartoonist when he drew sketches used to animate many scenes in the beloved feature cartoon, Yellow Submarine. You’ll hear The Bertils from Sweden, The NoWhere Boys from Colombia, Beat and Shout from Brazil and Estefy Lennon, a female John Lennon tribute band from Argentina. When the second annual International Beatles on the Beach Festival hits Delray Beach on March 26-29, you’ll hear from more than a dozen Beatle imitators - and one Beatles illustrator. Update: Cartoonist cancels Old School Square appearance | Beatles on the Beach Festival postponed He contributed about 12 minutes of the finished product. Ron Campbell painted the yellow submarine for the Beatles’ animated film of the same name.
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