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SHOWTIME/Viacom telefilm
"Roswell"
William Louis McDonald - Concept Designer
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 #1 Director's Instructions |
 #2 Rumored Ship Versions |
 #3 Kagan's Alien Pods |
 #4 More Pods for Jeremy |
 #5 Final Approved Pod Version |
 #6 Rumored "Bootheel" Ships |
 #7 Improved "Bootheel" Ships |
 #8 Final Approved "Bootheel" |
 #9 Promo Art - UFO Magazine |
 #10 Aerial Encounter with B-29 |
 #11 Military Witness Concepts |
 #12 First Forensic Composite |
 #13 2nd Forensic Composite |
 #14 Area 51 Giant Saucer |
 #15 William L. McDonald Sr. |
About
"Roswell" Executive Producer:
Paul Davids SHOWTIME debuted the telefilm "Roswell" on 09 July 1994. The film was based on two books by CPT Kevin D. Randle USAF (Reserves) and Donald R. Schmitt: "The UFO Crash at Roswell" and "The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell" both published by M. Evans and Company of New York City in 1991 and 1994. Bill McDonald was hired by Paul and Jeremy to draw all the spacecraft designs used in the telefilm and many additional alien sketches were also submitted. The "generic" alien puppets created for "Roswell" and subsequently used in several other SHOWTIME projects including "The Outer Limits" and "Stargate SG-1" were from Steve Johnson and his XFX corporate team. Since being seen on SHOWTIME dozens of times, theatrically in Europe, and many more times on the United Paramount Network (UPN) stations, "Roswell" has since gone on to be available for rent or purchase at Blockbuster Video, and many other videotape outlets. All drawings on this page were done exclusively for "Roswell." The alien sketches used are displayed with the UFO Art Gallery elsewhere on this web site. Because of Bill's work on this film, he was subsequently hired for work on eight TV series, one other film, numerous books and magazine articles and numerous TV specials as well. All of those images can be seen in the UFO Art Gallery. |
PLEASE NOTE: The above drawings evolved from early rumors of the spacecraft as well as from rather vague descriptions by Randle, Schmitt, Friedman, and Leonard H. Stringfield. Later versions obtained by Bill from the actual United States Army Counter Intellegence Corps (CIC) witnesses arrived too late to be used in the movie. Director Jeremy Kagan had specified that this film was a drama and NOT a documentary and had originally specified small pod-like alien spacecraft to be used in the film. Later on Bill was able to talk him into using a more accurate "Boot heel" shaped version as had been described by many of the actual residents of the town of Roswell. Because of the movie, Bill became obsessed with reconstructing as realistically as possible, the spacecraft and it's flight crew and this focus led directly to his approaching the Testor Corporation in order to create the two model kits of the Roswell UFO.
Paul and Jeremy's dramatic approach to telling the story had an unexpected benefit: It put a proverbial "Burr under the saddle" of several of the retired and surviving atom bomb security agents (CIC) who actually had a hand in the physical handling of the ship and the cadavers, and the youngest of the documents officers involved with the "Working group" attempting to reverse engineer the spacecraft at an underground nuclear bomb storage pit aboard Wright Patterson AFB from the first week of July 1947 to the Christmas holidays of 1952. It spurred them into being open to a conversation with the forensic artist involved in designing the spacecraft for the movie. It opened several doors for an artist already obsessed with reconstructing the true form of the "aerosurf" stingray-shaped spacecraft and it's flight crew.
The movie also helped ease Bill McDonald into subsequent conversations with retired "Skunk Works" management personnel who further cooberated the stories of the CIC agents. Before he died on Good Friday, 1999, veteran Testor Corporation kit designer John Andrews confirmed with Bill McDonald the truth about his relationship with deceased "Skunk Works" CEO Ben Rich and Rich's admissions that the Wright Patterson AFB "Working Group" had indeed provided data and measurements on the Roswell spacecraft's hull design to Rich's mentor, the legendary Kelly Johnson and his associate Jack Northrop from 1950 to 1952. Rich had inherited the secret, thus confirming the testimonies of the CIC officers and the Wright Patterson documents officer which had originally been obtained by CPT Kevin D. Randle, Journalist Don Schmitt, and later to Bill McDonald.
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