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Show Page Ten - The Springville Herald -- Kc-biu" 15, 1984 Junior High S.E.P. Day ' mm. J H jjj ! Don Bluth, a former resident of Mapleton, with BORF. The game features classical animation by lion characters he created for "Space Ace," Magicom's Bluth studios. His first animated arcade game, newest animated interactive laser disc arcade game. "Dragon's Lair," was released in July 1983 and From left, hero ACE, KIMBERLY, Bluth and evil became an instant smash hit. Don Bluth designs game Don Bluth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bluth of Mapleton is making it big in the field of animation. His company, Magicom, has just released their second laser disc arcade game. "Space Ace" is the name of it. "Dragon's Lair" was their first game. Don was born in El Paso, Texas, the second oldest of seven children. Six years later, he and his family moved to Mapleton, Utah, where he grew up milking 24 cows every morning, picking tomatoes for school money and dreaming of one day becoming a Disney animator. "On Saturdays I'd ride my horse to the movie in town and tie him to a tree while I went in and watched the latest Disney film. Then I'd go home and copy every Disney comic book I could find," Bluth says. He never tcfokart lessons. At Springville High School he was the art editor of the yearbook trying out his cartoon expertise. When he was a senior in high school, his family moved to Santa Monica, near Los Angeles. After graduation, he landed a job as assistant animator at Disney in 1956. He spent some time in Argentina then returned to the United States and college. He graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a major in English. In 1967, he decided his future did, indeed, lie in the art of animation. He joined Filmation Studios as a layout man. In 1971 he returned to Disney and joined their new training program for animation. He animated on "Robin Hood," released in 1973, and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too," a featurette released in 1974. He was directing animator on "The Rescuers," released in 1977, and director of animation on "Pete's Dragon," a musical fantasy combining com-bining live action and animation released in 1977. After doing some other things, Bluth began to work full time on his dream: a full-length animated feature done with the richness of classical animation. The film, called "The Secret of NIMH," took two-and-a-half years to complete and featured vocal talents of such stars as Peter Strauss, Dom De Luise, Derek Jacobi, John Carradine and Hermione Baddeley. Bluth was producer, director, layout designer, story adaptor, storyboard artist and animator on the film. MGM-UA Entertainment Company released the film throughout the United States and Canada in the summer of 1982 and it is still in foreign release. Just prior to the release of the film, Bluth began questioning ways to unite animation with computer technology in a way that would be popular. Several attempts had been made, none particularly successful, and Bluth felt it was an idea whose time had come. "It was the next logical step in the progression toward the future," he says. "Computers are here to stay and they have much to give us if we help them." At that point, Bluth joined forces with two other companies and formed Magicom Inc. He and his artists designed and animated 22 minutes of animation for "Dragon's Lair," the first animated interactive WmWMmmMMMMmm mm Ml III W Wl ttKrntfinv V- r. 5 . j'f - KliiMHHH IIBIIllHWa Paul Sabey, executive director of the Utah National Parks Boy Scout Council, was the speaker at the Kiwanis Club meeting last Thursday. Scoutmasters from the area were guests of club members for this event. Paul Boman, a long-time scouter in Springville, was the toastmaster. Kiwanis Club hosts area scoutmasters February is scout month and the Kiwanis Club celebrated it by hosting area scoutmasters to a dinner and program Thursday. The meeting was held to honor the organization of the Boy Scouts. Scoutmasters who were in attendance at-tendance were: Kent Walker, Pete Orton, Don Peterson, Ira Terry, Karl Jensen and Martin Palmer. In addition five members of the Golden "K" Kiwanis Club attended the meeting. They were Julis Smith, Fred Gourdine, Van Swenson, Stanford Taylor "and Dice Armstrong. Arm-strong. Paul Boman was the toastmaster for the evening and introduced Paul Sabey, exective director of the Utah National Parks Boy Scout Council, who was the speaker. Mr. Sabey told the group that the Utah National Parks Boy Scout Council is the largest geographicelly in the United States, and it, with the other Utah council, rates 9th in numerical order in the country. Mr. Sabey also paid tribute to the scout organization the work that is being done to further the citizenship characteristics of the youth in the nation. He said that no Eagle Scouts were in prison, and that the majority of the Boy Scouts in the country grew into positions of leadership in their communities and states. A film was shown telling how the scout organization interested boys and encouraged them to join the scout movement. Max Alleman and Paul Boman, members of Kiwanis, who have both served as scoutmasters and worked in scouting for many years, were honored as was Don Strong who serves on the district council. The Thursday meeting of the Kiwanis Club will be held at the Senior Citizen Center at 7 a.m. due to a BYU basketball game in the evening. Thursday, Feb. 16, is not a day of regularly scheduled classes at the Junior High School. Each student must meet with his or her homeroom teacher during an appointed time in order to complete registration form for next year's classes. Parents are invited to attend the appointment with their children, however, their presence is not mandatory. laser disc arcade game, which was released on July 1, 1983, and became in instant nationwide hit. "There, in the arcades, we found the audiences that 'NIMH' had missed," Bluth says. "There were all the teenagers and people in their 20s, and they were all crowded around the 'Dragon's Lair' machines." Their second game, "Space Ace," was designed and animated by Bluth and features 25 minutes of animation. It will be released early in 1984. Bluth is a member of the Shorts Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He won a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for "The Secret of NIMH," which was voted the Best Animated Feature of 1982. In addition, he received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention in 1983 and this year he also received an achievement award from the Minneapolis Comic Convention honoring the studio "For Advancing the Realm of Animation with the Creation of the Video Game, "Dragon's Lair." He also received an Arkie Award from Electronic Games magazine for best Arcade Audio Visuals of 1983 for 'dragon's Lair." i Springville Rotary Club chairman, Denms W'ns""' gek Mark J. Howard on his fine presentation a .the club .meeting tastweek. Mr. Howard is the new administrator of the U ah Valley osp ta . He spoke of the many changes that are com.ng .n the field I el hospital and medical care along with new doctors and new technology that are available to the patients. crease and the number of days that a patient stays in the hospital has declined recently. He said that there is less emergency room service at this time. And there has been an increase in small hospital closures. He also said that 90 percent of the people have insurance but this is decreasing. Another point that he stressed was that if a patient has a complaint or problem that can't be resolved at Utah Valley Hospital, there is someone from the hospital administration ad-ministration on call 24 hours a day that will be at the patients bedside within one hour to assist in clearing up that problem. If a person does not have or know a doctor he can call the hospital and they will refer that person to at least three doctors. lospital care changing fast The Springville Rotary Club had a very interesting talk last week given by Mark J. Howard, new administrator ad-ministrator of the Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. Mr. Howard, who was previously administrator of the American Fork Hospital, spoke of the many changes in the field of hospital and medical care. He told about the increased number of physicians graduating into private practice. 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