Don Bluth, the animator behind movies like “The Land Before Time” and “The Secret of Nimh,” tells his story in a new memoir.
Don Bluth, in his younger days as an animator and director, has written a memoir, "Somewhere Out There: An Animated Life," to be released Tuesday, July 19, 2022.
As he wrote, Bluth said he began to “realize that the book wasn’t just a fantasy of mine. It had a purpose and that purpose was that it was [for] all the people that I’ve met over the years who asked questions about the animation industry and some of the things that transpired behind the scenes.” “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully explain the love I feel for drawing,” Bluth writes. “I think it was embedded in my DNA, or in my soul, or perhaps it was put there in a faraway preexistent life by an angel. It is something involuntary, sort of like breathing for me, and my process of learning to draw was about connecting something inside my head to a feeling in my heart.”
Bluth got his first job at Disney in 1955, but left the studio in 1957 — to go on a mission in Argentina for his church. It would be another 14 years before he returned to animation. “I think the footnote to this is the reason that doors opened in my career, that I was able to make 11 movies under my own name without being at Disney,” he said, “is because I went and did the job in the mission field.”
For Bluth, that aspect of storytelling came down to the art form of traditional hand-drawn animation. A group of 17 Disney animation employees, according to Bluth, began working on an independent project in his home garage. It would take four years to release “Banjo the Woodpile Cat,” which follows a cat who runs away from his home in Payson to Salt Lake City.
Bluth made his next two movies, the immigrant fable “An American Tail” and the dinosaur adventure “The Land Before Time” , with Spielberg among the producers. Both films inspired sequels, though Bluth was not involved with them. Bluth said it was a success, for all involved, because Disney’s animation studios began to improve, under the leadership of Jeffrey Katzenberg. “Out of that came ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast,’” Bluth said. “They tried harder.”
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