The Disney revolt : the great labor war of animation's golden age / Jake S. Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Jake S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animators--Labor unions--California--Los Angeles--History.

Animators.

Strikes and lockouts--Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.

Strikes and lockouts.

Animators--Labor unions--United States--History.

Animators--United States.

Strikes and lockouts--Motion picture industry.

Walt Disney Company.

Walt Disney Productions--History.

Walt Disney Productions.

Walt Disney Productions--Employees.

Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.

Disney, Walt.

Babbitt, Art, 1907-1992.

Babbitt, Art.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 322 pages ; illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]

Summary:

Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them. Soon, angry Disney cartoon characters graced picket signs as hundreds of animation artists went out on strike. Adding fuel to the fire was Willie Bioff, one of Al Capone's wiseguys who was seizing control of Hollywood workers and vied for the animators' union. Using never-before-seen research from previously lost records, including conversation transcriptions from within the studio walls, author and historian Jake S. Friedman reveals the details behind the labor dispute that changed animation and Hollywood forever.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. My Father Was a Socialist

2. Poor and Starving

3. The Value of Loyalty

4. Arthur Babbitt: Hell-Raiser

5. Fighting for His Salary

6. You Can't Draw Your Ass

7. The Disney Art School

8. Three Little Pigs

9. Enter Bioffsky

10. The Cult of Personality

11. A Feature-Length Cartoon

12. Bioff Stakes His Claim

13. A Drunken Mouse

14. Disney's Folly

15. Defense Against the Enemy

16. A Growing Divide

17. The Norconian

18. A Wooden Boy and a World War

19. Dreams Shattered

20. Hilberman, Sorrell, and Bioff

21. The Federation Versus the Guild

22. The Guild and Babbitt

23. Disney Versus the Labor Board

24. The Final Strike Vote

25. Strike!

26. The Big Stick.

27. The 21 Club

28. Willie Bioff and Walt Disney

29. The Guild and the CIO

30. Not the Drawing

31. The Final Goodbye

32. And They Lived.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 263-312) and index.

ISBN:

9781641607193

164160719X

9781641607223

164160722X

OCLC:

1285272532

Publisher Number:

99991843641