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Category Archives: Film
Marge Champion receives Lifetime Achievement Award Tonight!
Disney fans might recognize Marge Champion, ex-wife and muse of Art Babbitt, as any one of these three characters: But to the dancing public, she’s a legend for her actual on-screen appearances. And this very night, she is receiving a … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Dance, Film, miscellaneous
Tagged Marge Champion
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The Camel with Wrinkled Knees
One of Babbitt’s best latter-day scenes is from the feature film, Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977), directed by Richard Williams. For 1970s animators and kids of the 1970s/early 1980s, the film is still appreciated; for almost everyone … Continue reading
Posted in 1946-1970s: Later Years, Animation, Film
Tagged Raggedy Ann & Andy, Richard Williams
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Film History: Edison, Griffith, and Babbitt – part 1
In 1930, while employed as an animator at Terrytoons in the Bronx, Art Babbitt watched legendary filmmaker D. W. Griffith make a little girl cry on a movie set … …But this all begins with Thomas Edison. The oblong, drab … Continue reading
Posted in 1929-1932: Terrytoons, Film
Tagged Bronx, D. W. Griffith, film history, Frankenstein, Paul Terry, silent films, Thomas Edison
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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 “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
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 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
Walt Disney Praises his Victor Camera
An original ad, circa 1935, featuring Walt and Art. From Art Babbitt’s collection.
1936 Lecture: Animation is Music
In the 1930s, Walt Disney moved forward with his in-studio education program. As was regular office practice at the time, he also had stenographers keeping track of all discussions and notes. A training course lecture series was started to allow … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, California, Disney, Fantasia, Film, music, Photography
Tagged Disney Studios, Education, lecture, Richard Buhlig, Walt Disney
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