Meet 17-year-old animator, Eric Goldberg

Doug Post of Woodbury University saves everything and recently found this article in a newsletter he used to get as a child.

It’s a section of the November 1973 issue of General Motors American Youth magazine. It features an article on teenage filmmakers – and highlights future animator/director Eric Goldberg discussing how he got interested in animation and his afternoon visiting the Disney studio.

Eric gave us permission to post the pages below (click thumbnails to enlarge), with this comment:

Okay, you can post it, complete with my use of top pegs (the horror!) and my somewhat less than modest credit crawl (not untrue, however!). Just as a side note, two years after that article appeared, I won the Grand Prize in that contest, and my roommate at the Plaza Hotel in New York (where the ceremonies were held) won First Prize. His name was David Silverman, of later Simpsons fame. We’ve been good friends ever since. We fondly recall the days when he had a “Jew-fro” and I had hair.

(Thanks, Doug Post, Dori Littell-Herrick and Eric Goldberg)