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X Atencio is a Story, Layout, Production Design, Additional Soundtrack, Animation and Title Graphics American born on 4 september 1919 at Walsenburg (USA)

X Atencio

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Birth name Francis Xavier Atencio
Nationality USA
Birth 4 september 1919 at Walsenburg (USA)
Death 10 september 2017 (at 98 years)

Francis Xavier Atencio, also known as X Atencio (born September 4, 1919), is a former animator and Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company. He was born in Walsenburg, Colorado.

He was a Disney artist from 1938 until 1965, when he became an Imagineer to help design the Disneyland Railroad's Primeval World diorama segment. He then contributed to various Disney attractions. He wrote the script for both Adventure Thru Inner Space and Pirates of the Caribbean, for which he also penned the lyrics to the theme song, "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" and provided the voice of the talking skull early on in the attraction. He also wrote the script for the Haunted Mansion, including the lyrics to that attraction's theme song, "Grim Grinning Ghosts (The Screaming Song)." His voice can also be heard emanating from the coffin in the Haunted Mansion's conservatory ("Hey! Let me out of here!") and, in the Disneyland mansion, when the attraction comes to a temporary halt it is his voice which announces, "Playful spooks have interrupted our tour. Please remain seated in your Doom Buggy" as well as other emergency spiels. Another brief voice-over he provided was for the Submarine Voyage Thru Liquid Space where he is addressed as "Bridge." "Bridge: Aye, aye, all ahead one third. Stand by the mooring lines." He also wrote the lyrics to Buddy Baker's catchy music for the retired Walt Disney World attraction If You Had Wings.

Atencio retired from The Walt Disney Company in 1984 and was named a Disney Legend in 1996.

He served as a photo interpreter in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1941 to 1945 during World War II, reaching the rank of captain in the 2nd Photo Tech Squadron. Stationed in England, he was part of team that would analyze aerial surveillance for military intelligence.

Biography

Francis Xavier Atencio est né le 4 septembre 1919 à Walsenburg (Colorado).

X Atencio entre aux studios d'animation de Walt Disney Pictures en 1938 comme intervalliste. Il travailla dans les studios d'animation de Walt Disney Pictures de 1938 à 1965, année où il intégra WED Entreprises afin d'aider à la conception des décors du diorama Primeval World du Disneyland Railroad. Il contribua ensuite à la conception de plusieurs attractions :


Pour Pirates of the Caribbean, il écrivit le script dont la célèbre chanson Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) et donna sa voix à la tête de pirate de l'entrée.
travailla sur Adventure Thru Inner Space
Pour Haunted Mansion il écrivit le script de Haunted Mansion dont le thème musical Grim Grinning Ghosts et donna sa voix à l'annonce sonore d'interruption temporaire de l'attraction (à Disneyland uniquement) - Playful spooks have interrupted our tour...please remain seated in your Doom Buggies.
Il prit sa retraite de la Walt Disney Company en 1984 et fut nommé « Disney Legend » en 1996.

Il décède le 10 septembre 2017.

Best films

Inside Out (2015)
(Additional Soundtrack)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of X Atencio (11 films)

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Scriptwriter

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 23minutes
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'un ours, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews, Bruce Reitherman, Sebastian Cabot, Hal Smith, Howard Morris
Roles Story
Rating79% 3.993233.993233.993233.993233.99323
The story opens with Pooh Bear going through his morning exercise, during which he accidentally rips the stitching on his bottom. After repairing his torn rump, Pooh goes to his pantry for some breakfast, but finds he is fresh out of honey. He hears a bee fly by and decides to climb the honey tree, but while climbing the branch he is standing on breaks and he falls, landing in a gorse bush. Needing help, Pooh heads to Christopher Robin's house. Pooh gets Christopher Robin's magical blue balloon to try to get the honey from the honey tree. He rolls himself in a muddy puddle to disguise himself as a little black raincloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the hive. Once he reaches the bee hive he takes a giant handful of honey with bees still in it. He eats the honey then spits out the bees, one of which is the queen bee who falls into the mud below. The queen bee proceeds to sting Pooh's bottom which jams his rear into the hive. A now scared Pooh admits to Christopher Robin these are the wrong sorts of bees and the angry bees end up pushing him out the hive and chasing Pooh and Christopher Robin. The two barely manage to escape the angry swarm by diving into the mud puddle.
Jack and Old Mac
Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Children's films
Roles Characters
Rating56% 2.8466352.8466352.8466352.8466352.846635
Ce film mêle deux comptines : La maison de Jack et la ferme du vieux McDonald mais la ferme est ici remplacée par un groupe de musique.

Director

The Truth About Mother Goose, 15minutes
Directed by Bill Justice, Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors John Dehner, Kevin Corcoran
Roles Layout
Rating70% 3.52663.52663.52663.52663.5266
Little Jack Horner sur le voleur d'une tarte qui contenait un présent pour Henri VIII Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary sur Marie Stuart
A Cowboy Needs a Horse, 7minutes
Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Animation, Western
Themes Children's films
Roles Layout
Rating63% 3.152413.152413.152413.152413.15241
Ce court dessin-animé raconte le rêve d'un petit garçon (Charly) passionné par la vie de Cow-boy à l'époque des pionniers, dans le Far West américain. Accompagné par une musique de George Bruns, l'enfant parvient, le temps d'un rêve, à se fondre en véritable Cow-boy avec sa monture (d'où le titre A cowboy Needs a Horse signifiant Tout Cow-boy a besoin d'un cheval). Il fume ainsi le Calumet avec un chef indien après avoir emprisonné à l'aide d'un lasso toute sa tribu, arrête un gangster, empêche un train de dérailler sur un pont détruit à la dynamite par des bandits, ou encore sauver une jeune fille kidnappée par un malfrat.

Art

The Shaggy Dog, 1h44
Directed by Charles Barton, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Title Designer
Rating63% 3.197043.197043.197043.197043.19704
Wilbur "Wilby" Daniels is a boy who is misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder son's often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he is allergic to dogs, and he simply cannot understand why his younger son, Montgomery "Moochie" would want a dog.

Sound

Inside Out
Inside Out (2015)
, 1h34
Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, John Ratzenberger, Phyllis Smith
Roles Additional Soundtrack
Rating80% 4.0476354.0476354.0476354.0476354.047635
A girl named Riley is born in Minnesota, and within her mind, five personifications of her core emotions—Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger—come to life. The emotions live in Headquarters, Riley's conscious mind, where they influence Riley's actions and memories via a control console. Her new memories are housed in colored orbs, which are sent into storage at the end of every waking period. The most important or "core" memories are housed in a hub in Headquarters and power five "islands", each of which reflects a different aspect of Riley's personality. Joy acts as the dominant emotion to keep Riley in a happy state, but she and the others do not understand Sadness's purpose, other than making Riley cry.

Visual effects

Babes in Toyland, 1h46
Directed by Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran
Roles Visual Effects
Rating60% 3.0475953.0475953.0475953.0475953.047595
The film begins as if it were a stage play presented by Mother Goose (and her wise-cracking, talking goose companion, Sylvester) about two nursery rhyme characters, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and Tom the Piper's Son, who are about to be married. At the same time, the miserly and villainous Barnaby is hiring two crooks, Gonzorgo and Rodrigo, to throw Tom into the sea and steal Mary's sheep, thus depriving her of her means of support, and forcing her to marry Barnaby instead. (Mary has just come into a huge inheritance of which she is obviously unaware, but somehow–it is never explained how–Barnaby knows about it and intends to get it for himself.) After bopping Tom on the head with a hammer and tying him in a bag, the two henchmen, dimwitted Gonzorgo and silent Roderigo, pass by a gypsy camp. They decide to sell Tom to the Gypsies instead of drowning him in order to collect a double payment.
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (1959)

Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Children's films
Actors Jerome Courtland, Paul Frees, Jimmy MacDonald
Roles Animation
Rating61% 3.088243.088243.088243.088243.08824
Noé, aidé par ses trois fils et leurs femmes, construit une arche qui accueille un couple de chaque espèce animale pendant le déluge qui durera 40 jours.
The Truth About Mother Goose, 15minutes
Directed by Bill Justice, Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors John Dehner, Kevin Corcoran
Roles Layout Supervisor
Rating70% 3.52663.52663.52663.52663.5266
Little Jack Horner sur le voleur d'une tarte qui contenait un présent pour Henri VIII Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary sur Marie Stuart
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, 10minutes
Directed by Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Court métrage éducatif de Disney, Children's films
Actors Bill Thompson, Thurl Ravenscroft
Roles Animation
Rating70% 3.534843.534843.534843.534843.53484
Le professeur Owl (Hibou) essaye d'enseigner la musique à ses élèves. Il leur apprend les principes ayant conduit à la création des instruments de musique. Il explique avec démonstration depuis la préhistoire que quatre sons de base sont à l'origine des quatre familles d'instrument :

Team

The Parent Trap, 2h9
Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Road movies, Children's films, Jumeaux ou jumelles, Films about marriage
Actors Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles, Joanna Barnes, Una Merkel
Roles Title Graphics
Rating71% 3.598113.598113.598113.598113.59811
Identical twins Susan Evers and Sharon McKendrick meet at summer camp, unaware that they are sisters. Their identical appearance initially creates rivalry, and they continuously pull pranks on each other, which ultimately leads to the camp dance being crashed by their mischief. As punishment, they must live together in an isolated cabin (and eat together at an "isolation table") for the remainder of their time at summer camp. After both admit they come from broken homes, they soon realize they are twin sisters and that their parents, Mitch and Maggie, divorced shortly after their birth, with each parent having custody of one of them. The twins, each eager to meet the parent she never knew, switch places. They drill each other on the other's behavior and lives, and Susan cuts Sharon's hair into the same style as hers. While Susan is in Boston masquerading as Sharon, Sharon goes to California pretending to be Susan.