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Author Archives: Art Babbitt
Babbitt’s Footage of the 1938 Oscars
Happy Oscar season, everyone! The 10th Academy Awards was a unique event for the Disney Studios: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs received a nomination for best score, and The Old Mill won for best animated short. It was March 10th, 1938 … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Disney, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tagged 1930s, Academy Awards, Art Babbitt, Ceci lB. Demille, Frank Capra, Home Movies, Hymie Fink, Jack Warner, Leo McCarey, Louis B. Mayer, Luella Parsons, Luise Rainer, Mack Sennett, Marge Champion, Oscars, Shirley Temple, W. C. Fields, Walt Disney
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The Goldfish Story
Perhaps the most well-documented Art Babbitt story is that of the goldfish. In Talking Animals and Other People (pp. 146-7), Disney animator Shamus Culhane wrote: In the mid-thirties, nobody in his right mind drank Los Angeles tap water. It was … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Disney
Tagged Hyperion, Jack Kinney, Practical Jokes, shamus culhane
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The Hyperion Horseflies Story
It’s no secret that Chuck Jones and Art Babbitt were good friends from way back. But in writing about Disney, Chuck borrowed one of Art’s own stories. In Chuck Reducks (pp. 95-6) he writes: Disney animators were more likely to … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Disney, Hollywood
Tagged Chuck Jones, Disney Studios, Hyperion, Practical Jokes, Roy O. Disney, Walt Disney
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The “China Shop” Story
In Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s The Illusion of Life (pp72-73), they tell a story about the struggles of an early Disney cartoon and an anonymous animator. It was mid-1933 and the artists, especially this particular animator, were much more … Continue reading
“Scotch Highball” Terrytoon draft
Below are the animators drafts for the Terrytoon cartoon “Scotch Highball,” released November 16, 1930. Special thanks to Jerry Beck who noted that each Terrytoon short took three weeks to animate, and was released ten weeks later. We can infer … Continue reading
Posted in 1929-1932: Terrytoons, Animation, New York
Tagged 1930s, Carles Sarka, cartoon, Ferdinand Horvath, Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Paul Terry, Scotch Highball, Terrytoons
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“Canadian Capers” draft
“Canadian Capers” was produced by Terrytoons and released on August 23, 1931. Uniquely, this was assigned to only four animators: Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt. (UPDATE: Scroll Below for scene-by-scene mosaic) Frank Moser was the man … Continue reading
Posted in 1929-1932: Terrytoons, Animation, New York
Tagged 1930s, Art Babbitt, Bill Tytla, cartoons, Farmer Alfalfa, Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Paul Terry, workdrafts
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The Disney Training Program of the 1930s
Assembled here are some quotations from primary sources about the training program that was in place at Disney’s in the early 1930s. (Art Babbitt was part of Sharpsteen’s trainee unit from mid-1932 to early 1933.) “…There were two of us … Continue reading
The Third Disney Task
By early August, 1932, Babbitt had successfully proven himself among the ranks of the novice animation talent. Ben Sharpsteen was probably impressed with Babbitt’s Pluto work on the previous assignment, so he gave him a few more Pluto scenes in … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, California, Disney, Film, Hollywood, Mickey Mouse, Nine Old Men
Tagged Archie Robin, Art Babbitt, Ben Sharpsteen, cartoon, cartoons, Charlie Byrne, Chuck Couch, Ed Love, Frank Tipper, Fred Spencer, Freddy Moore, Frenchy de Tremauden, George Drake, Gerry Geronomi, Hardie Gramatky, Harry Reeves, Johnny Cannon, Les Clark, Louie Schmidtt, Marvin Woodward, Norm Ferguson, Roy Williams, Tom Palmer, Wilfred Jackson
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The Second Disney Task
After Babbitt completed his first inbetweening test, news of his speed spread across the studio “like wildfire.” Cartoons were, by their nature, expensive to make, requiring more time to produce six minutes of footage than a live action film required. … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Disney, Mickey Mouse
Tagged Ben Sharpsteen, Burt Gillett, cartoons, Dave Hand, Disney, Disney Studios, Hyperion, Pluto, Wilfred Jackson
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The First Disney Task
When Art finally got hired at Disney Studios in July 1932, he, like countless others before and after him, was assigned to inbetween another animator’s drawings. Inbetweening is low on the animation rung, but luckily for Art, the studio had … Continue reading
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