Burbank Studio
Bob Dranko
Notes
We interviewed Bob Dranko in the home of associate Tim Baskerville, in West Hills, California, in 2005
Camera: Patrick Dunavan / Audio: Ken Gale
Robert Dranko was one of the main designers during the heyday of UPA Pictures, often doing color and backgrounds as well. He came to the studio, after seeing some of UPAs work and realizing that this was the place to be for an innovative artist, when most of the world was still in the dark ages, when it came to creative work.
Dranko continued to create is own fine art during, and after leaving UPA.
Maxine Davis
Notes
We interviewed Maxine Davis, audio-only, at her last home in Ensenada, Mexico in 1990.
Max, as she was called at UPA, was a secretary for the US Navy, where she met some of the UPA artists doing Navy training films in the early 1940s. She was convinced to move over to UPA, and began very early on as a receptionist and general organizer. Soon she became Steve Bosustow’s personal assistant, and, as Bosustow tells it, became
invaluable to the studio, bringing her organizational skills to Bosustow’s artistic tendencies.
Maxine Davis is part of an unreleased scene
