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blueflameswordsman · 2 months

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to my followers have anyone of you watched a show/read a comic book etc where someone proclaimed that it makes fun of both the left and right in response to someones complaints. In truth while the show pokes fun at both it punches one side much harder then the other , for example imagine if you take two people get some light jabs to arm ( playful way) then punch as hard as you can on the other. Like imagine if you were to say attack one side by portray them as villains while their punches to the left by making them look silly. I recall some people talking about the boys likethis ( haven't watched the show ) basically trying to equate vaught company to the right wing even in ways that don't make sense (while the left wing got some light jokes

having them hold a gun rally when it makes more sense for them to be pro gun control with the argument that they don't need guns for their heroes will protect them

have a vaught supporter go don't listen to the MSM when they haven't shown a new media that vaught hasn't controlled, so it should be someone opposing vaught/vaught critical who says something like that

likely equating trumps joke about how much the media lied about him that they lost the trust of a lot of people so even if he actually did something bad they wouldn't believe it . and turn it into homelander actually killing someone in front of a lot of people

most likely trying to equate homelander actually trying to subvert American presidency an actual insurrection to January 6 ( which wasn't an insurrection by trump trump called for a peaceful protest and some people ended up going into the capital building trump told them to stop and leave. ( and they didn't kill anyone the only person who died was ashli babbit who snuck into the window the police officer could have told her to freeze rather then shooting her the moment she walked in there (she wasn't a threat to anyone nor was she carrying a weapon) is no doubt that if a black person say trespassed in some place and got instantly shot by a police officer who didn't even warn them there would be a riot ( ) it is quite annoying when I see people whine about trump not insulting them and the way trump called them.

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lifejustgotawkward · 4 years

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2019) - #164: But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) - dir. Jamie Babbit (52 Films by Women 2019: #19)

Until recently, my knowledge of Jamie Babbit’s directorial skills had been limited to her TV credits. Her name is on some of my favorite sitcom episodes of the last five years, including Playing House (”Bird Bones”), It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (”Hero or Hate Crime?,” “PTSDee”) and eight episodes of Silicon Valley (including possibly my favorite of the entire series, “Intellectual Property,” aka the one where sleep-deprived Richard kicks his foot through a door). For her feature film debut, Babbit - an openly gay writer/director - applies stylized absurdity to tell the darkly comic story of Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a happy suburban teenager who is “accused” of lesbianism by her concerned parents, friends and boyfriend. Megan is carted off to True Directions, a conversion therapy camp run with dictatorial glee by Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty), her obviously gay son Rock (Eddie Cibrian) and hypermasculine, hyper-hetero assistant Mike (RuPaul). As Megan comes to the realization she really has been repressing her sexuality just like everyone said, she finds herself falling for one of her suitemates, Graham (Clea DuVall).

Jamie Babbit leans into her satire’s deliberate campiness, casting Mink Stole (a John Waters regular) and Bud “Harold and Maude” Cort as Megan’s parents and heightening both the acting and color scheme to make the film a kind of companion piece to Hairspray and Edward Scissorhands. I don’t think that But I’m a Cheerleader is anywhere near as funny as some viewers have suggested, but it has its moments and I appreciate the genuine chemistry between Lyonne and DuVall, who have been best friends ever since making this film.

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yazzydream · 7 years

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ANIMATION DOCUMENTARIES - a Compilation (1/2)

I’ve been meaning to remake my masterpost on animation documentaries for a while. (Especially since amazon no longer allows us to edit our older listmanias.) I love watching stuff like this, so I figure others would as well! I direct linked as many titles as I could to streams, free or otherwise. Feel free to add to this! (Also, quick prelude since you’re gonna hear it a lot: Any time a Disney documentary says Snow White was the first ever animated feature film is a dirty filthy lie.)

Animation Industry

Anime: Drawing a Revolution (2007)

Between Frames: The Art of Brazilian Animation (2013; website)

The CalArts Story (1964)

[NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3620 逆襲なるか　日本アニメ　～海外輸出・新戦略の行方～ (”The Counterattack of Japanese Anime ~Overseas Export - New Strategy~”) (2015; website)

[NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3171 アニメを旅する若者たち　“聖地巡礼”の舞台裏 (”Young People Traveling for Anime ‘Pilgrimage to the Sacred Place’”) (2012; website)

[NHK Close-up Gendai Plus] ２兆円↑アニメ産業　加速する“ブラック労働” (”2 Trillion Yen ↑ Accelerating Animation Industry ‘Black Labor’”) (2017; website; NHK on how shitty overworked animator wages are.)

Computer Dreams (1988; this is more a showcase of early cgi than a documentary, but it’s interesting to see anyway.)

Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex (2016; DVD)

Drawn for Glory: Animation's Triumph at the Oscars (2008; DVD)

Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920 (2007; DVD)

Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930

Hollywood’s Greatest Trick (2016; website; about the terrible VFX business model.)

I Know That Voice (2013; DVD, website)

Imagine Series 2 Episode 5, “From Pencils to Pixels” (2003; BBC One)

Magia Russica (2004; website; on Soviet Russian animation)

New-generation animators (2016; website)

Weightless Life - Dialogue With Disney (2006; on Russian animation)

Studios

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015)

Fleischer Studios -

The Evolution of Animation: The History of the Fleischer Studios (2007; DVD)

First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series (2009; DVD)

Max Fleischer and the New York Style (2007)

Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story (2008)

Hanna-Barbera’s 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)

Life After Pi (2014; website; about the collapse of VFX studio Rhythm & Hues.)

Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the impossible (2010)

The Magic of Filmation

Pixar -

Pixar: 25 Magic Moments (2011; by BBC Three)

The Pixar Story (2007, DVD; website)

Walt Disney Studios

Dream On Silly Dreamer (2005; DVD)

From Fantasia to Fantasyland (1978)

The Illusion of Life (1981)

Walt Disney Treasures - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studio (DVD; A collection of old behind-the-scenes docs and telecasts.)

Walt Disney Treasures - Your Host, Walt Disney (DVD; collection of Walt Disney Presents/The Wonderful World of Color)

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009; DVD; website)

Warner Bros. -

[Camera Three] The Boys Termite Terrace (1975; DVD)

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes (2003; DVD)

Unsung Maestros: A Directors Tribute (2007; DVD)

Anime Studios

Behind The Scenes! Kyoto Animation Making of Kanon

Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple (2005)

Inside Toei Animation (2008)

Kingdom of Dreams & Madness (2013; DVD; on Studio Ghibli.)

The Story Behind Banjo (2009; DVD; on creating Don Bluth Productions.)

Animators/Artists/Voice Actors Included a few comic artists who’s works are also widely known through animation.

Al Hirschfeld - The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996; DVD; website)

Ami Ankilewitz - 39 Pounds of Love (2005; DVD)

Art Babbit - Animating Art (1988)

Art Chokey - Gumby Dharma (2006)

Bill Pylmpton - Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011; DVD)

Blinky Bill - Blinky and Me (2011; DVD; website)

Bob Clampett - The Man from Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett (2004; DVD)

Bob Godfrey - The Craftsmen - Bob Godfrey (1971)

Bruce Bickford - Monster Road (2004; DVD; website)

Charles Schulz -

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1963; DVD)

[Biography] Charles Schulz: A Charlie Brown Life

Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz (2000)

[American Masters] Good Ol’ Charles Schulz (2007; website)

Chuck Jones -

Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991; DVD)

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000; DVD)

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009)

Heart and Soul: The Timeless Art of Chuck Jones (2007; DVD)

Eyvind Earle - My Life Eyvind Earle (DVD; autobiographical doc.)

Floyd Norman - Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016; website)

Frank Tashlin - Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank Tashlin (2005; DVD)

Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston - Frank and Ollie (1995; DVD)

Frank Thomas - Growing Up with Nine Old Men (2013; DVD)

Friz Freleng -

Freleng: Frame by Frame (1994; DVD)

Friz on Film (2006; DVD)

Fujiko Fujio - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 214, “プロフェッショナルザ・レジェンド僕は、のび太そのものだった” (”The Legend I Was Nobita Itself”) (2013)

Genndy Tartakovsky - Genndy's Scrapbook: The Story of Genndy Tartakovsky (2005; DVD)

George Pal - Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985; DVD)

Gerry & Sylvia Anderson - Filmed in Supermarionation (2014; DVD; website)

Hayao Miyazaki -

Journey of the Heart (1998)

[NHK Documentary] Owaranai Hito: Miyazaki Hayao (“Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki”) (EN) (2016; website)

[NHK The Professionals] Special, “「風立ちぬ」1000日の記録” (“Windless” A Record of 1000 Days) (2013)

[NHK The Professionals] Special, “引退宣言知られざる物語” (Retirement Announcement Unknown Story) (2013)

John Lasseter - A Day In The Life of John Lasseter (2011)

LeSean Thomas - Seoul Sessions (2012)

Lotte Reiniger -

John Isaacs The Art of Lotte Reiniger (1970)

Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film (1999)

Lou Scheimer - Animation Maverick: The Lou Scheimer Story (2008)

Mary Blair - The Art of Mary Blair (2005)

Mel Blanc - Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008; DVD)

Naoki Urasawa - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 38, “心のままに、荒野を行け” (Go To the Wilderness With Your Heart) (2007)

Norman McLean - McLaren’s Negatives (2006)

Osamu Tezuka -

The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga (2009; DVD)

Osamu Tezuka Documentary: The Godfather Of Manga

Pablo Ferro - Pablo (2012; DVD)

Peter Ellenshaw - Ellenshaw Under Glass

Quirino Cristiani - The Mystery of the First Animated Movies (2007; website)

Ralph Bakshi -

Forging Through the Darkness (2001; DVD)

Wizards: Ralph Bakshi - The Wizard of Animation (2004)

Ray Harryhausen -

The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998; DVD)

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011; DVD)

Richard Williams -

Richard WIlliams & The Thief Who Never Gave Up (1982)

I Drew Roger Rabbit (1988)

Persistence of Vision (2012; DVD; website)

Robert McKimson - Drawn to Life: The Art of Robert McKimson (2007; DVD)

Ryan Larkin - Ryan (2004; DVD)

Scott T. Petersen - Scott Petersen: Drawn To Animate (2013)

Takehiko Inoue - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 126, “ 闘いの螺旋、いまだ終わらず” (The Battle Spiral, It Has Not Ended Yet) (2009)

Takashi Yanase -

[NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3423 アンパンマンに託した夢　～人間・やなせたかし～ (”The Dream I Entrusted to Anpanman ~Human Takashi Yanase~) (2013; website)

[NHK 知るを楽しむ] 人生の歩き方” - 「正義の味方はカッコ悪い！」やなせたかし (”How to Walk Life” - “The Ally of Justice is Uncool!” Takashi Yanase)

Tex Avery -

Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons (1988)

King Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Toons Revolution (2012)

Toshio Suzuki - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 10, 自分は信じない人を信じる (”I Trust People Who Do Not Trust Me”) (2006)

Ub Iwerks - The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999; DVD)

Tyrus Wong - Tyrus Wong, Brushstrokes in Hollywood (website)

Walt Disney -

[American Experience] Walt Disney (2015; DVD; website; take with a pinch of salt and maybe check out this post.)

Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: The Futurism of Walt Disney (2016)

Secret Lives Walt Disney (1995; It’s suuper fucked up, but it’s interesting to compare other docs on Walt.)

Walt & El Grupo (2008; DVD; website)

Walt - The Man Behind the Myth (2011; DVD)

Walt Disney (2016; by BBC Two)

Winsor McCay - Remembering Winsor McCay (1974; DVD)

Yoji Kuri - Here We Go with Yoji Kuri! (2008)

Disney Family Album (1984-1986) Doc series on various Disney animators, actors, etc.

No. 1 Clarence "Ducky" Nash

No. 2 Ward Kimball

No. 3 Sherman Brothers

No. 4 Jim Macdonald

No. 5 Milt Kahl

No. 6 Ken Anderson

No. 7 Disneyland Designers

No. 8 Eric Larson

No. 9 Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw

No. 10 Woolie Reitherman

No. 11 Frank Thomas

No. 12 Voice Actors

No. 13 WED Imagineers

No. 14 Golden Horseshoe Revue

No. 15 Ollie Johnston

No. 16 Annette Funicello

No. 17 Marc Davis

No. 18 The Milottes and the Beebes

No. 19 Fess Parker/Buddy Ebsen

No. 20 The Storymen

JUMP Ryu! (ジャンプ流！) (2016; website) A DVD/magazine series that interviews Shonen Jump mangakas and shows their drawing process.

Vol. 1 Akira Toriyama (DVD; Dragon Ball)

Vol. 2 Masashi Kishimoto (DVD; Naruto)

Vol. 3. Eiichiro Oda (DVD; One Piece)

Vol. 4 Tite Kubo (DVD; Bleach)

Vol. 5 Tadatoshi Fujimaki (DVD; Kuroko no Basuke)

Vol. 6 Yusei Matsui (DVD; Assassination Classroom)

Vol. 7 Kōhei Horikoshi (DVD; My Hero Academia)

Vol. 8 Kazuki Takahashi (DVD; Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Vol. 9 Haruichi Furudate (DVD; Haikyu!!)

Vol. 10 Shun Saeki (DVD; Shokugeki no Soma)

Vol. 11 Kentaro Yabuki (DVD; Black Cat, To Love-Ru)

Vol. 12 Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin)

Vol. 13 Naoshi Komi (DVD; Nisekoi)

Vol. 14 Masanori Morita (DVD; Rokudenashi Blues)

Vol. 15 Yusuke Murata (DVD; aka ONE artist of One-Punch Man)

Vol. 16 Shimabukuro Years (Toriko)

Vol. 17 Masakazu Katsura (DVD; Video Girl Ai)

Vol. 18 Osamu Akimoto (Kochikame)

Vol. 19 Takeshi Obata (DVD; Death Note)

Vol. 20 Kyosuke Usuta (DVD; Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar)

Vol. 21 Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter)

Vol. 22 Hiroyuki Asada (DVD; Tegami Bachi)

Vol. 23 Sorachi Hideaki (Gintama)

Vol. 24 Kazue Kato (Ao no Exorcist)

Vol. 25 Hirohiko Araki (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Musicians

Raymond Scott - Deconstructing Dad (2010; DVD; website)

Robert & Richard Sherman - The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story (2009; DVD; website)

Saori Yuki - [NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3162 世界を魅了する日本の歌謡曲　～由紀さおり　ヒットの秘密～ (”Popular Japanese Songs That Fascinate the World ~Saori Yuki’s Hit Secret~”) (2012; website)

Treg Brown - Crash! Bang! Boom!: The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown (2004; DVD)

(Continue to Part 2)

#animation #documentaries #masterpost #disney #looney tunes #fleischer studios #anime #animation documentaries #long post #let's try to be more bloggy shall we #animation docs

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endorsereviews · 7 years

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Dustin Hoffman – Teaches Acting

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Learn Dustin’s Method Dustin Hoffman believes that every great character is already inside you—the hard part is learning to access them. In his first ever online class, the two-time Academy Award winning star of The Graduate, Tootsie, and Rain Man teaches you everything he’s learned during his 50 year acting career.

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24 lessons, totaling 5+ hours, in which Dustin teaches you everything he wishes someone had taught him.

Class Workbook

Each lesson comes with notes, reading materials, and assignments to ensure you get the most out of Dustin’s class.

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Practice scenes with fellow students, and post videos to get feedback from the class (and possibly even Dustin himself!). Lesson Plan 01 Dustin’s Method Dustin’s approach to acting is unique. In this lesson, he reveals the principles of his method and how to start implementing it. 02 Working with a Co-Star — Jerry Maguire Scene Work Part 1 Dustin has had famous on-screen chemistry with the likes of Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. Watch as he teaches two strangers to build an instant bond on set, and then makes you try the same Jerry Maguire scene with a fellow student. 03 Relating to Your Character — Jerry Maguire Scene Work Part 2 Relating to your character is crucial to a great performance. Dustin teaches you how to read through the lines to add emotion and depth to your role. Show all 24 Lessons 04 Managing Your Nerves — Jerry Maguire Scene Work Part 3 Every good actor gets nervous, even Dustin. Vulnerability is key to bringing depth to a performance. Here’s how to use your fears to get deeper into character. 05 Performing Honestly — Jerry Maguire Scene Work Part 4 Uncover and access the deepest layers of your personality so you can stop pretending and start being your character. 06 Critiquing Yourself — Jerry Maguire Scene Work Part 5 Dustin is his own harshest critic, even when the director is happy and the audience loves him. Learn how he finds ways to question, critique and improve his perfomance. 07 What I Learned in Acting Class Dustin learned from the most prominent acting teachers of his day, including Lee Strasberg — hear the tips and stories that stuck with him. 08 Researching Your Character Whether he’s studying women’s vocal patterns or sneaking into San Quentin prison—Dustin conducts detailed research to create memorable and believable characters. 09 Creating Your Character The essence of Raymond Babbit came from an accidental vocal tick; Benjamin Braddock grew from Dustin’s childhood memories. There’s no one way to bring a new character to life, but these are some of the ways that have worked for Dustin. 10 Saying Your Lines Memorizing your lines is just the first step. Here’s how Dustin approaches a new script to bring life to words on a page. 11 Funny Business You can’t always plan for the laugh. Dustin explains how to develop your comic instincts and use everyday life as your comedic inspiration. 12 Staying In The Moment When you leave the script behind and make things up as you go, the results can can be inspiring, fun, or sometimes flat-out embarrassing. You have to be willing to fail to triumph as an actor. 13 Stage and Screen For a play, you rehearse for weeks. On a film set, you might get ten minutes. As an actor who trained for the stage, Dustin shares how he changed his approach to the craft for the camera. 14 Dustin’s Story From college dropout to Oscar-winning actor, learn a little bit more about your teacher. 15 Being Present — Good Will Hunting Scene Work Part 1 Learning to look beyond the script to what’s not being said, and using that powerful subtext to reveal parts of yourself is the essence of Dustin’s approach to acting. Dustin applies this lesson to a scene from Good Will Hunting. 16 Be Yourself to Be the Character — Good Will Hunting Scene Work Part 2 If the audience isn’t seeing your secrets, you’re doing it wrong. Pushing yourself to admit and accept your most painful and uncomfortable truths will help bring depth and honesty to the characters you play. See how brave you can learn to be. 17 Embracing Your Vulnerability — Good Will Hunting Scene Work Part 3 Nobody’s perfect – and audiences will love you for it. Watch a scene from Good Will Hunting come to life when Dustin directs two actors to draw upon their own insecurities. 18 Creating a Relatable Character — Good Will Hunting Scene Work Part 4 Learn how to craft a timeless, relatable character that audiences will fall in love with. 19 Staying True to Yourself — Good Will Hunting Scene Work Part 5 Dustin never lets a script hold him back from giving what he believes is the right performance. Here’s how to stay true to yourself without getting fired. 20 Working Together Get Dustin’s insider tips on how to keep an open, creative environment on set, respect your fellow actors, and most importantly—relax. 21 Auditions Dustin has spent his career defying “leading man” stereotypes. Here’s how to take the right risks to set yourself apart from the crowd and handle the rejection all actors face. 22 Making Acting Your Living After painful rejections, how do you stop the candle inside you from burning out? Dustin sheds light on the difficult decisions involved in making acting your living. 23 Great Mistakes It can be harder than you think to tell the difference between an accident and a stroke of genius. The most iconic scene in Midnight Cowboy was an on-set accident. Make every mistake an opportunity. 24 Always Be Working Dustin closes his MasterClass with one lesson he wants every actor to remember.

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pageturner92 · 7 years

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29th May 1941.

A date filled with significant events for Disney and yet they are probably more taboo than anything surrounding Song of the South.

Despite the huge impact of that day on the entire American film and animation industry, the Disney company are not going to talk about it, acknowledge it, or even reference it in modern-day animation and film-making.

For on that day, hundreds of Disney employees walked out on strike. The strike lasted for months, disrupting production on a number of projects and brought down the folksy atmosphere of the studios that Walt wanted.

Employee grievances such as salary cuts, layoffs, wage distribution, long hours, and merit had been brewing during the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but its unexpected success increased tension behind the scenes. This influenced many animators to look towards the Screen Cartoonist’s Guild (SCG) for support. One animator and staunch unionist was Art Babbit, one of the highest ranking animators, and who openly detested Walt.

With many other smaller animation studios such as MGM and Looney Tunes already committed to the SCG and unionisation, they believed it was only time before the Disney studios fully cooperated. However, Walt wasn’t having any of it. He wanted to run the studios his own way.

In the February before the strike, he gave this following speech to his employees:

In the 20 years I’ve spent in this business I’ve weathered many storms. It’s been far from easy sailing. It required a great deal of work, struggle, determination, competence, faith, and above all unselfishness. Some people think we have class distinction in the place. They wonder why some people get better seats in the theatre than others. They wonder why some men get spaces in the parking lot and others don’t. I have always felt, and always will feel that the men that contribute most to the organisation should, out of respect alone, enjoy some privileges. My first recommendation to the lot of you is this; put your own house in order, you can’t accomplish a damn thing by sitting around and waiting to be told everything. If you’re not progressing as you should, instead of grumbling and growling, do something about it.

Many employees left this meeting infuriated and recruited more to join the guild. As Babbit was one of the leaders, tensions grew between him and Walt. However, on the day before the strike, Walt decided enough was enough and terminated Babbit’s employment, citing his cause “union activities.”

On that day and during the strike, all animators were forced with a choice – join the strike, risking unemployment and the horrors of the depression, or cross the picket line, go into work and earn the lasting hatred of friends and colleagues. There was no middle ground.

Those who did carry on working, especially those who worked on Dumbo, referenced the strikers in the film. They became clowns who wanted to go and “hit the big boss for a raise.”

Even animators from other studios came out to support the plight, wanting Walt to change his mind and relent. Support for the strike was so influential that the American Federation of Labour (AFL) picketed theatres showing Disney films, and Technicolor (who worked with Disney) refused to process the films until Walt and the rest of the studio recognised the guild.

Undoubtedly, Walt was furious and felt betrayed. He saw the picket lines as an affront to his paternalistic style of leadership and he no longer believed that he could trust anyone, even his loyal allies. Later on whenever there was a staff cutback, the union supporters were the first to go, and when the Federally mandated 90-day arbitration period ended, Disney fired even more. In 1956, he did however try to find the silver lining by saying that the strike cleaned house better than he could ever have done.

Regardless, it still had a heavy impact on him and the studios. When the studios opened properly again in the September, they had 694 workers on the payroll – down significantly from the 1,200 at the beginning of the strike. He was also forced to reinstate Art Babbit again after he’d gone through the courts, believed to be unfairly dismissed.

Moving Walt aside for the moment, the strike had a huge impact on the history of Hollywood animation, spawning new studios (particularly the UPA), creative styles, and characters. The summer events also influenced the foundation of four major comic strips, and many ex-Disney animators became important figures in the comic book world including Walt Kelly, Hank Ketcham, George Baker and Sam Cobein.

In fact Tom Sito, a former president of the Animation Guild and Disney animator from the Renaissance era called it “The Civil War of Animation.”

Whilst the strike was not the first animation strike to happen, it was the most notable as Disney was the biggest and most prestigious of all the studios.

Regardless of what Walt Disney thought about the strike, none of us can deny that it gave Disney employees the rights that they deserved. It might have also changed the studio, forcing them to accept that the age of innocence was over but salaries doubled and screen credits were established.

Despite what I initially thought about the strike, I didn’t realise there was so much discontent going on behind the scenes. It just proves that Disney wasn’t and isn’t as perfect as we automatically deem it to be. A lot of work goes on to make the magic and as Mr Gold would say, magic comes with a price. That price back then was obviously the strike and even though unionisation was against Walt’s wishes, he had to bend to accept the will of everyone.

Walt Disney was not a perfect leader and this strike clearly highlighted his flaws, personally and professionally.

As I can’t seem to input video, I will leave some links to the videos talking about the strike down below.

PBS – The Animation Strike

Interview with animator Bill Mendelez

Strike footage

Had you heard of the animator’s strike?

Do you think Disney should recognise it as part of its history?

Thanks for reading and have a brazzle dazzle day! xx

Animator’s Strike 1941

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