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DERRY NOYSE CRAIG’S SIBLINGS
BROTHER: ELI NOYSE

PART 7 of 7

JUST FOR GRINS AND GIGGLES, IS THERE A LAUREL CANYON CONNECTION ANYWHERE?

Let’s see if there might be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Noyes

ELIOT (ELI) FETTE NOYSE was born in Amherst MA in 1942. He followed the family attachment to Harvard and graduated from there in 1964. He decided to get into animation for films.

One of the film techniques he is best known for is the Clay and Sand stop motion animation. His film short with that technique, “Clay or Origin of the Species” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

He created the Sand Alphabet for Sesame Street and Nickelodeon. He cofounded Alligator Planet LLC with Ralph Guggenheim and Alan Buder.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=155361976

Alan Buder, on of Eli’s partners is deceased. He was a committed environmentalist. He had gone to Colgate, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and Yale. He started numerous businesses, primarily in animation.

Alan co-founded Climate Cartoons (not with Noyes, that I could find - but the Alligator Planet website appears to be carrying them in their listings) to educate the next generation about the implications of climate change. He was also a founding member of E2, Environmental Entrepreneurs.

One of the cartoon films of Alan’s found cited at imdb.com is “Lucy: Daughter of the Devil.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2250946/

I spent quite a bit of time digging to try to connect Ralph Guggenheim, Eli’s other Alligator Planet LLC partner with “THE” Guggenheims. I was able to find a family tree of “THE” Guggenheims, but if Ralph is one of “THEIR” family members, he does not seem to be publicly or liberally acknowledged.

He has an impressive film background and was apparently, according to some, Pixar before there was a Pixar.

Ralph was a NY native, went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg. He studied photography and computer science. He was working at NY Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab. Lucasfilm hired him and moved him to California in 1981.

“…After his research lab at Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and renamed Pixar, Guggenheim continued to work in the world of graphics and animation. Guggenheim, a respected founder of Pixar, eventually became Vice President of Feature Animation and was a lead producer for Toy Story. Guggenheim left the company in 1997 after Disney forced Pixar to remove him as producer from Toy Story 2....”

The article does not explain why Disney did not want Ralph working on Toy Story 2.

He then co-founded the Alligator Planet LLC with Alan and Eli.

Eli Noye’s wiki page has a number of titles listed of his work. However, the one that caught my eye (as I suspect it will yours too) was his work with Disney on…….

(Drum Roll please….)

The 1991 Disney series, “ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.”

I looked that up with the friendly little link wiki thoughtfully provided, and found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_Wonderland

“Adventures in Wonderland is a live-action/puppet musical television series based on Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. In the series, Alice (played by Elisabeth Harnois), was portrayed as a girl who can come and go from Wonderland simply by walking through her mirror (a reference to Alice Through the Looking Glass).

The series originally ran from March 23, 1992 to 1995 (with reruns continuing until at least 1997) on The Disney Channel and on stations across the country. Like many Disney Channel original shows, Adventures in Wonderland was originally taped at Disney-MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, with two sound stages used exclusively for the show, but only for its first 40 episodes. Afterward, shooting was moved to Los Angeles, CA.”

“Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released three VHS tapes of certain episodes.”

“The puppets for some of the characters were created by Chiodo Bros. Inc.”

There were a number of credits listed for the various actors associated with the film. Terry Garr was “The Duchess” - (and was really the only name I recognized.)

The article included some notes about the characters in the series, and how they interact with each other. They are the characters we are familiar with from the Lewis Carroll story. Alice, the Red Queen, the White Rabbit, etc. I found them to be enlightening, in view of our Q studies.

In 2005, Alligator Planet produced “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” - another endearing story featuring a rabbit.

(As far as I’m concerned, Brother Ei has here an honestly earned Red flag.)

So, while I have been unable to place Eli Noyse directly with Laurel Canyon, both he and his living partner, Ralph, have both worked with Disney in Hollywood.

We have the understanding from previous digs that Disney was involved up to his cute little mustache in the secret CIA film making facility in Laurel Canyon. Eli and Ralph at different times both worked for Disney’s company. So, while there does not seem to be a direct Laurel Canyon tie, one could possibly make a case for an implied one, or indirect one.

STRANGENESS:
I found near the end of my searches, a link to some US Post Office stamp art work done by Derry, which was dedicated to the theme, “Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet Stamp.”

The Post Office was promoting it, giving instructions for how to obtain first day covers. They also produced an article about the stamps:

https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/ny/2010/ny_2010_0504.htm

In the article the Post Office posted in May of 2010, it is noted that the stamps were originally unveiled on the ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW on March 17, 2010.

This “Gee Whiz” factoid caught my eye in the instructions for how to obtain a first day issue:

“…. Customers have 60 days to obtain the first day of issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™, at The Postal Store® at www.usps.com/shop or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes to themselves or others and place them in a larger envelope addressed to: Animal Rescue: Adopt A Shelter Pet Stamps C/O POSTMASTER 7035 LAUREL CANYON BLVD. HOLLYWOOD, CA 91605-9998…”

So I leave it in your capable hands to decide if Derry and the Noyes family have a genuine “Laurel Canyon” dot-connect.

Derry Noyes Craig DOES have a very genuinely interesting family full of bright talented people. My conclusion remains, as I have previously indicated that Derry brought a lot to Gregg Craig when he married her talented self, and into her exceptionally creative family.

END PART 7

LOOSE END ADDENDUM:

In my researches, I ran across a JOHN HUMPHREY NOYSE. He was the originator of the ONEIDA COMMUNITY, 1848-1881, a perfectionistic, religious, communistic, “Free Love”, eugenic settlement which supported itself with making beautiful silverware, among other things.

It makes for fascinating reading, and I tried to find an obvious connection to the Derry/Eliot Noyes family, but better researchers than I will have to try for that, if it matters. Nevertheless -

*texokie gets out her whittlin’ knife and begins smoothing out a lovely gnarly pine tree root*-

IF and I say “IF” it is the same family, how very interesting.

I could find nothing about the origins of Eliot F. Noyes’s father Atherton, except that he was born in 1862, “had deep Boston roots,” and taught English literature at Harvard. The reason for going to Colorado had been because Atherton had wanted to be a physician, but contracted tuberculosis and went on a different career path. The time spent in Colorado when Eliot Fette was little, was for Atherton’s health. Atherton’s time of birth could plausibly put his antecedents with the Oneidas, but I have NO PROOF of that.

*texokie has also been helping herself to a slice of watermelon chock full of lovely black seeds, and spits a mouthful of them across the patio into the lawn, hoping that greeneyes didn’t see her do that. :-D *

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community

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