The carriage is filled, with at least four women inside and two more sitting on its top.
One of the women, smiling, is Ruthie Tompson.
Of course its build five-eighths to scale.
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Its not as big as a regular carriage.
And Walt gets up there [on the carriage].
He decided not to do it because ponies get frisky and kids might scare em or something.
Courtesy Ruthie Tompson
I got in on the dirty work, more or less.
I was a gopher, really.
The first night I went, I went in inking.
Inking was the main thing they needed.
The girls that ink are really artists.
She gestured again towards the cel.
This one managed to stay alive, the rest of them all popped off.
And so Thompson went into painting, filling in the color for the characters that had already been inked.
The first one I did wasLonesome Ghosts that was painting.
Whites and blues and grays and stuff.
She would eventually go on to become a supervisor.
When asked the secret to longevity, Thompson laughed.
I smoked and I drank, but not that much.
