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Tag Archives: Art Babbitt
Disney Artists with Guns
Art Babbitt always had a 16mm camera with him – a real movie bug. He brought his camera with him the day he, Bill Tytla and Les Clark went clay shooting. Golden-age Disney artists having fun in the sun! Circa 1937.
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, California, Disney, FDR
Tagged 2nd Amendment, Art Babbitt, Bill Tytla, Clay Shooting, Guns, Les Clark
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Les Clark, of Disney’s Supreme Court
In honor of the recent landmark healthcare decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court, I’m going to talk about one of my favorite past members of the Supreme Court. Disney animator Les Clark. I use “Supreme Court” loosely, but by … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Disney, FDR, Film, Labor, Nine Old Men, politics, Skeleton Dance, Supreme Court
Tagged Animation, Art Babbitt, conservative, Constitution, Country Cousin, Disney, Disney Studios, FDR, Great Depression, John Roberts, Les Clark, liberal, New Deal, Roosevelt, Skeleton Dance, Walt Disney
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Occupy Disney
People protesting, all day, every day, demanding fair wages from the one percent, for they were the ninety-nine percent. Singing songs and carrying signs. Dressing in costume. Marching and chanting. Camping on the neighboring grass. A tent city in a … Continue reading
Posted in 1941: The Disney Strike, Disney, Labor, miscellaneous, OWS
Tagged Animation, Art Babbitt, Disney, film, Hollywood, labor, Occupy, Strike, union, Walt Disney
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Geppetto First Pass: Disney’s Pinocchio
Only when I first heard about the “first pass” stage from a contemporary Disney animator did the whole animation process begin to gel for me. It takes a certain amount of trial and error to get from a storyboard drawing … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Disney
Tagged Acting, Animation, Art, Art Babbitt, Disney, Disney Studios, Drawings, Hollywood, Pinocchio, Storyboard, Walt Disney
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Chess Board by Disney Artists in 1940
I was about to write, “It’s not often that I get blown away by a piece of Disney history,” … but that’s not true. The best part of studying Disney history is the peek you often get into the lives … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Disney, Games
Tagged Albert Hurter, Art Babbitt, Berk Anthony, Bill Herwig, Bill Martin, Bill McKee, Bill Wallett, Bob Majors, Campbell Grant, Dick Huemer, Dick Kelsey, Disney Studios, Dunn Roman, Ernie Nordli, Fantasia, Fini Rudiger, Freddy Moore, Gustave Tenngren, Jack Miller, Jim Bodrero, John Walbridge, Kay Nielsen, Martin Provensen, Milt Kahl, Phil Dyke, Pinocchio, Shirley Soderstrom, Snow White, Sola Franco, T. Hee, Tony Rivera, Ward Kimball
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New York 1936 on Film
Though he worked and lived a Hollywood life in the 1930s, Art Babbitt would visit New York often. He had lived and worked in New York from the ages of 16 to 24. For a kid whose “higher education” was … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Film, New York
Tagged 1930s, Art Babbitt, Hardie Gramatky, Home Movies, New York
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The Babbitt Diary: Animating in Argentina – part 2
As previously posted, in the summer/fall of 1941, Walt Disney and a group of some of his most trusted staff went to South America as part of the U.S. government’s “Good Neighbor Program”… and just a few months later, Art … Continue reading
Posted in 1942-1946: Repercussions
Tagged 1940s, Animation, Art Babbitt, Dante Quinterno, Frank Thomas, South America, Walt Disney
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Alice In Wonderland Character Designs
************* UPDATE! Click HERE for part 2! ************** Soon after he left Disney in January of 1947, Art Babbitt got a job as character designer with Lou Bunin on his 1949 film version of Alice in Wonderland (eventually released in … Continue reading
Marge Champion / Marjorie Belcher
There is a lot to say about the great Marge Champion, more than I have time for tonight. I just had to post something about her because … well, … last night I had a dream that I met her. … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Dance, Disney, Photography
Tagged Art Babbitt, Marge Champion, Snow White, Women
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1940: Babbitt and Fergie
The year is 1940. Disney’s is experiencing the Golden Age of animation. But just how valuable is Art Babbitt to Walt Disney? Remember, this was before the “Nine Old Men” became defined as Disney’s top animators. So we’ll look at … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Disney, Genealogy
Tagged Animation, Art Babbitt, Disney Studios, Fantasia, Goofy, Marge Champion, Norm Ferguson, Pinocchio, Snow White
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