A skeletal version of Andrae's list was originally published in Barrier's Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (page 216). Barrier made a list of the Disney cartoons on which Barks worked as a story man, according to his own records.

"Story director" indicates that Barks was the story director on a cartoon. The director was generally the most experienced storyman in a unit, and the one who explained a storyboard to Walt Disney; otherwise, his title was nominal.

"Story crew" indicates that Barks was identified as a member of the story crew, technically subordinate to a story director although as Barks and other former Disney story men have said, such distinctions were not much honored at the time.

In some cases, Barks's role in the work on a story is specified in an outline that was distributed throughout the studio before work on the story was completed; copies of such outlines have been preserved in the Disney Archives. Barrier lists Barks' title on ten of the cartoons, relying on these outlines.
Andrae's Barks titles are taken from the flyleaves of bound volumes of storyboard drawings from the finished cartoons, preserved in the Disney Archives.
The "Preface" of Barrier's book mentions that while Barks was with Jack Hannah, Barks had the title of story director (page 17). This is not shown in his list.
Curiously, the bound volumes do not credit Barks at all on «The Hockey Champ» or «Donald's Cousin Gus» - two cartoons for which he drew most of the sketches - or on «The Autograph Hound». Here Andrae follows Barrier's notation. In other cases where credits are not available in the binders, Andrae simply omits them.

Since a cartoon could be in production for over a year, there may be a considerable difference between the release date and the time Barks actually worked on it. Typically, a year or more would elapse between the circulation of an outline and the release of the finished cartoon; for example, the outline for «Sea Scouts» was distributed on March 26, 1938, and the cartoon was released on June 30, 1939.

An asterisk after a cartoon's title indicates that Barks drew many or most of the storyboards for that film.

Unproduced Cartoons

Also noted are scripts Barks wrote and story meetings he attended in conjunction with his work on such films. Since a story would often be scrapped before other gag men had a chance to work on it, the surviving art of unproduced cartoons shows Barks' animation work in its most undiluted form. It is closer to his personal vision than the produced cartoons, which were a collaboration of many hands.

The files for Barks' unproduced cartoons also contain the story conference transcripts on his work that have survived. They offer a valuable record of Barks' working methods and his interaction with Walt Disney.

A shorter, preliminary version of Andrae's list was originally published in Barrier's Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (page 216). According to Barrier, Barks's records show that he worked on cartoon stories listed under the titles «Northwest Mounted», «Prospector», «Balloon», «Shooting Gallery», «Beaver Hunt», and «Salesman», all of which were shelved.
Barrier mentions that the Disney Archives has material - sketches, outlines, gag suggestions, or story meeting notes - matching all of these titles except «Salesman», and has an outline with Barks' name on it and sketches for a cartoon that was to have been titled «Donald Munchausen».

Where ascertainable, dates are provided for the period Barks worked on a particular production. An asterisk indicates that he drew many or most of the storyboards for a proposed cartoon.

(In general, more than 600 cartoon features and short films were abandoned during the Walt Disney Studio's first 60 years.)

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