June 1, 2022
“Your Yellow Sub books are a terrific matched set capturing the creation, history, drama, suspense and up close and personal, behind-the-scenes saga, beyond the Yellow Submarine movie itself.
— Norm Drew, Key Animator, Yellow Submarine
Animator Norm Drew holding artwork from the film in front of one of the promotional posters. Norm says about the photo: The mechanical pencil I am holding in the pic is one of several types I used on YS animation. Also used friendly old SCRIPTO mechanical pencils which I used on the first entertainment animation TV special I worked on at Crawley Films, Ottawa, for NBC TV, New York. (‘The following program is being brought to you in LIVING COLOR!’. A phrase guaranteed to raise goose-bumps of anticipation back then in the early days of color TV!). Despite the initial tribulations of searching for cartooning work in a London economic winter, I must have had a purposeful feeling I’d find my way to (what turned out to be) Yellow Sub, as I’d brought my pencils and leads with me from Toronto with no idea I’d even find work. Not the first time my ESP picked up homing beacons! © Norman G. Drew, 1968, used with permission.
You must be logged in to post a comment.