Filmography

This is an evolving list of the projects Art Babbitt worked on throughout his life.  (Release dates are in parentheses.)

TERRYTOONS

• “Swiss Cheese” (5/18/30) – trainee animator [1]
• “Codfish Balls” (6/1/30) – trainee animator [1]
• “Hungarian Goulash” (6/15/30) – trainee animator [1]
• “Bully Beef” (7/13/30) – trainee animator [1]
• “Kangaroo Steak” (7/27/30) – animator [1]
• “Monkey Meat” (8/10/30) – animator [1]
• “Chop Suey” (8/24/30) – animator [1]
• “French Fried” (9/7/30) – animator [1]
• “Dutch Treat” (9/21/30) – animator [1]
• “Irish Stew” (10/5/30) – animator [1]
• “Fried Chicken”(10/19/30) – animator [1]
• “Hot Tomales” (aka “Jumping Beans”) (11/2/30) – animator [1]
• “Scotch Highball” (11/16/30) – animator [1]
• “Salt Water Taffy” (11/30/30) – animator [1]
• “Golf Nuts” (aka “All Day Suckers”) (12/14/30) – animator [1]
• “College Capers” (aka “Pigskin Capers”) (12/28/30) – animator [1]
• “Popcorn” (1/11/31) – animator [1]
• “Club Sandwich” (aka “Dancing Mice”) (1/25/31)- animator [1]
• “Razzberries” (2/8/31) – animator [1]
• “Go West Young Man” (aka “Go Wes,t Big Boy”) (2/22/31) – animator [1]
• “Quack Quack” (3/8/31) – animator [1]
• “The Explorer” (3/22/31) – animator [1]
• “Clowning” (4/5/31) – animator [1]
• “Sing Sing Song” (aka “Sing Sing Prison”) (4/19/31) – animator [1]
• “The Fireman’s Bride” (5/3/31) – animator [1]
• “The Sultan’s Cat” (5/17/31) – animator [1]
• “A Day to Live” (5/31/31) – animator [1]
• “2000 B.C.” (6/14/31) – animator [1]
• “Blues” (6/28/31) – animator [1]
• “By the Sea” (7/12/31) – animator [1]
• “Her First Egg” – animator [1]
• “Jazz” (aka “Jazz Mad”) (8/9/31) – animator [1]
• “Canadian Capers” (8/23/31) – animator [1]
• “Jesse and James” (9/6/31) – animator [1]
• “The Champ” (9/20/31) – animator [1]
• “Around the World” (10/4/31) – animator [1]
• “Jingle Bells” (10/18/31) – animator [1]
• “The Spider” (aka “The Black Spider”) (11/1/31) – animator [1]
• “China” (11/15/31) – animator [1]
• “The Lorelei” (11/29/31) – animator [1]

(more Terrytoons are likely to have had Babbitt’s mark but are unconfirmed)

AUDIO-CINEMA

• “Buster Brown Shoes” spot [“Sole Mates”?](1932) – animator (dir. F. Lyle Goldman) [2]

DISNEY

• “King Neptune” (9/10/32) – inbetweener [2]
• “Touchdown Mickey” (10/15/32) – inbetweener [2]
• “The Klondike Kid” (11/12/32) – trainee animator [1]
• “Babes in the Woods” (11/19/32 – trainee animator (?) [4]
• “Santa’s Workshop” (12/10/32) – trainee animator (?) [4]
• “The Mad Doctor” (1/20/33) – trainee animator [2]
• “Birds in the Spring” (3/11/33) – trainee animator (?) [4,5]
• “Ye Olden Days” (4/8/33) – trainee animator [1]
• “Three Little Pigs (5/27/33) – animator [2,4]
• “Mickey’s Gala Premiere” (7/1/33) – animator [1]
• “Lullaby Land” (8/19/33) – animator [4]
• “The Steeplechase (9/30) – animator [7]
• “The China Shop” (1/13/34) – animator [2,4]
• “The Grasshopper and the Ants” (2/10/34) – animator [4]
• “Funny Little Bunnies” (3/24/34) – animator [4]
• “Gulliver Mickey” (5/19/34) – animator [1]
• “The Wise Little Hen” (6/9/34) – animator [2,4]
• “Peculiar Penguins” (9/1/34) – animator [2,4]
• “The Goddess of Spring” (11/3/34) – animator [4]
• “Two-Gun Mickey” (12/15/34) – animator [1]
• “Mickey’s Service Station” (3/16/35) – animator [1]
• “Water Babies” (5/11/35) – animator [4]
• “Mickey’s Garden (7/7/35) – animator [7]
• “On Ice” (9/28/35) – animator [2]
• “Broken Toys” (12/14/35) – animator [5]
• “Mickey’s Polo Team” (1/4/36) – animator [1,3]
• “Moving Day” (6/20/36) – animator [1,2]
• “The Country Cousin” (10/31/36) – animator [1,2]
• “Moose Hunters” (2/20/37) – animator [7]
• “Mickey’s Amateurs” (4/17/37) – animator [1]
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (12/21/37) – supervising animator [1]
• “Polar Trappers” (1/11/38) – animator [1]
• “The Whalers” (8/19/38) – animator [1]
• “Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (12/23/38) – story development [3]
• “Goofy and Wilbur” (3/17/39) – animator [1]
• Pinocchio (2/7/40) – supervising animator [1]
• Fantasia (11/13/40) – supervising animator [1]
• “Goofy’s Glider” (11/22/40) – animator [2]
• “Baggage Buster” (4/18/41) – animator [2]
• Dumbo (10/23/41) – supervising animator [1]
• “The Art of Self Defense” (12/26/41) – animator [7]
• “The Flying Jalopy” (3/21/43) – animator [7]
• “How to Play Football” (9/15/44) – animator [7]
• “Fiesta of the Flowers” (1946) [uncompleted] – animator [2,8]
• Fun and Fancy Free: “Bongo” (9/27/47) – animator [6]
• “Foul Hunting” (10/31/47) – animator [6]
• “Bootle Beetle” (11/22/47) – animator [6]

[There is no supporting evidence that Babbitt worked on Lonesome Ghosts (1937) or They’re Off (1948)]

WARNER BROS STUDIOS

• “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1/16/43) – animator [7]
• “The Wise Quacking Duck” (5/1/43) – animator [2]
• “Tin Pan Alley Cats” (7/17/43) – animator [7]

LOU BUNIN PRODUCTIONS

• Alice in Wonderland (5/13/49) – research & development animator [1]

UPA

• “Ragtime Bear” (9/29/49) – animator [6]
• “Giddyap” (7/25/50) – director [9]
• “The Popcorn Story” (11/30/50) – director [9]
• “The Family Circus” (1/25/51) – director [2, 9]
• “Bailing Out (animated training film for U.S. Navy) (1950s) – director [2]
• “Barefaced Flatfoot” (4/26/51) – animator [6]
• “Fuddy Duddy Buddy” (10/18/51) – animator [6]
• “Grizzy Golfer” (12/20/51) – animator [6]
• “Rooty Toot Toot” – (3/27/52) animator [6]
• Four Poster animated sequence (10/8/52) – animator [6]
• (additional Magoo films uncredited)

ACADEMY PICTURES

• “The Principles of the Gas Turbine Engine” (1953) – director [2]
• Various live action P.R. films (for PanAm, Ford, G.E., McGraw-Hill, etc.) – director [2]
• Sal Hapatica spot – director [2]

STORYBOARD, INC.

• Heinz “Fluff” spot (circa 1953) – director [2]
• Ford “Doctor” sport (circa 1954) – director [2]
• “Finian’s Rainbow (February 1955) (uncompleted) – animator [1]
• “John and Marsha” snowdrift spot (1956) – director
• “A Date with Dizzy” (1956) – animator [6]

QUARTET FILMS

• “Energetically Yours” (10/14/57) – animator [2]

INDEPENDENTLY

• “Philbert: Three’s a Crowd” (April 1963) – animator [2]
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet (3/28/64) – animator [2]

HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS

• Various animated commercials (1964-1973) [1] – director

THE HUBLEY STUDIO

• “Of Men and Demons” (1969) – animator [7]
• “Everybody Rides the Carousel” (late summer 1975) – animator [2]

RICHARD WILLIAMS STUDIO

• Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) – supervising animator [6]
• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) – supervising animator [6]

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Sources:

1. Original Production Drafts/Artwork
2. Primary-source recollections
3. Original studio meeting transcripts
4. Verified in Silly Symphonies by Russel Merritt and J. B. Kaufman
5. Testimony in NLRB hearings
6. Screen Credits
7. unverified
8. J. B. Kaufman, as quoted in Walt’s People Volume 3.
9. Verified by Of Mice and Magic by Leonard Maltin