John Hench

John Hench
John Henchwas an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than 65 years, during which saw the creation of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth29 June 1908
CountryUnited States of America
ideas people dining
Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.
affection walt department
Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
color cities feelings
We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
atmosphere jewelry minutes
There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.
children reality games
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.
optimistic optimism way
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
people cynical intuition
Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
cities lasts parks
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
people attention stories
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
cartoon chosen screens
We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
paris skeletons people
Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!
color choices working-together
It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony.
sea league special
I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"
artist skeletons pirate
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!