This blog post was originally posted on December 6, 2012, by Anne Richardson. Hyperlinks might not be functional at this point. Let us know if you discover a broken link.
Sebastian Heiduschke, Editor
Chel White was already a filmmaker when he arrived in Portland in 1985. Oregon Movies, A to Z asked him about what happened next.
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Anne Richardson: I have read that you came to Portland specifically to work for Jim Blashfield. Is that correct?
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Chel White: I moved to Portland in May of 1985 because of a girlfriend who was from here and wanted to move back. Finding out that there was a thriving animation community in Portland was a happy accident. It was a little before I arrived, but there had been this group called the Animation Collective that included Jim Blashfield, Joanna Priestley, Rose Bond, Laura DiTrapani, and possibly Joan Gratz and Will Vinton. Within a couple months of moving here I went to a screening in which a few of these folks (Jim, Joanna, Rose and Roger Kukes) showed some new work and talked about their creative process. I was especially taken with Jim’s SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. It wasn’t until a year later that I actually met Jim, then within a few more months, was working for him on the Paul Simon music video.
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