tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post114385169224593845..comments2024-03-29T02:18:35.303-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Disney In the Seventies & Eighties -- Pete YoungSteve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-89860285363519347782008-02-09T14:15:00.000-08:002008-02-09T14:15:00.000-08:00I would like to add if anyone could email me stori...I would like to add if anyone could email me stories or any memories of any kind no matter how small. Maybe those of you that worked with him could straighten out for us exactly what little things he did in movies that we might have mixed up from my mom to my grandma...my sisters and I don't know too much amy was 9 when he died, I was about to turn 7 and Christy about to turn 5. my email is y75jenn@aol.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-40030512426048251872008-02-09T13:27:00.000-08:002008-02-09T13:27:00.000-08:00It means so much to find this. Pete was my father ...It means so much to find this. Pete was my father and his work is what we have now to remember him by. I will show all I know he did to my baby daughter. I can remember trips to the disney studio and drawing up storyboard ideas for a pluto cartoon. He told me he named Jenny in Oliver after me and I remember George saying that at the movie screening as well. He is missed by his family and we love him. AMy, Jenny, and Christy YoungJenny Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15335728227623044642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1143922555328093092006-04-01T12:15:00.000-08:002006-04-01T12:15:00.000-08:00Those of us were there and not on vacation were sh...Those of us were there and not on vacation were shocked as well. We knew he had been sick, but it hadn't sounded life threatening. It was all a stupidly tragic accident. <BR/>My heart really went out to his family - especially to his two young daughters (I think that's right). He always spoke lovingly of them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765213900367650396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1143920320394744122006-04-01T11:38:00.000-08:002006-04-01T11:38:00.000-08:00Pete was my closest friend at Disney for most of t...Pete was my closest friend at Disney for most of the time I was there.<BR/><BR/>I found out he had died the day after I came back from a two-week vacation. Brian McEntee told me the news over the phone. I remember walking around in numbed shock, trying to get my head around the reality of his passing.Steve Huletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1143916803647101732006-04-01T10:40:00.000-08:002006-04-01T10:40:00.000-08:00Actually Rick Rich was slated to co-direct Oliver ...Actually Rick Rich was slated to co-direct Oliver with Scribner...it didn't quite work out that way for reasons that I won't get into here.<BR/>I think Pete was smart enough )or overly cautious enough) not to want to direct and was willing to utilize Scribner as his proxy.<BR/>I suspect if Pete had lived Oliver might not have been the embarrassing film it turned out to be...maybe. Pete understood how to work within a group and use everyone's input. He wasn't one of those that felt only his opinion mattered or was right.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765213900367650396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1143916189881744922006-04-01T10:29:00.000-08:002006-04-01T10:29:00.000-08:00Pete was a very talented and a very nice young man...Pete was a very talented and a very nice young man. I remember giving him a ride home when we worked at Disney in the seventies. We talked about story, and how much better the Disney films could be.<BR/><BR/>I think he was slated to co-direct "Oliver" with George Scribner. Like Joe Ranft, he left us much too soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1143866714062898612006-03-31T20:45:00.000-08:002006-03-31T20:45:00.000-08:00Pete was a great guy and his tragic, early death e...Pete was a great guy and his tragic, early death effected a lot of us. he was definitely one of the good guys and should be remembered.<BR/>It's wonderful you brought his name up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765213900367650396noreply@blogger.com