Animation - Who & Where

I have a great post coming, but it will appear here soon... Happy Birthday Fred!

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2011/09/fred-moores-100th-birthday.html

Turn the Clock Back 72 Years Another Disney Bulletin offering a peek into the goings-on at Disney's Hyperion Avenue studio. There is a mention of Mary Flanigan, jokingly listed as "Apple Mary"...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2011/01/disney-bulletin-january-17-1939.html

Rollin Clare* Hamilton was born 110 years ago today in South Dakota. His parents were William Clarence Hamilton and the former Ella Stevens, both natives of Iowa. Two years earlier his older...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2008/10/rollin-ham-hamiltons-110th-birthday.html

I just wanted to point out that a major force responsible for the look of Disney's Bambi celebrates his birthday today. He was born in China and moved with his father to Southern California befo...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2008/10/tyrus-wong-is-98-today.html

Eighty years ago today Walt Disney supervised the recording of the soundtrack for the Mickey Mouse short, Steamboat Willie. The recording took place in New York City under the baton of conductor...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2008/09/sound-finds-steamboat-willie.html

The legendary Man of 1000 Voices was born 100 years ago today. Mel Blanc was born Melvin Jerome Blank to Frederick and Eva (Katz) Blank in San Francisco, California. Mel arrived four years afte...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2008/05/century-birthday-mel-blanc.html

Disney artist Joe Grant was born a century ago today in New York City. His parents Eva and George Albert Grant made their home at at 611 W. 136th Street in Manhattan, where George worked as an...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2008/05/century-birthday-joe-grant.html

Iwerks animator Godfrey Bjork would have been 100 years old today. Please see the earlier post from last May for more about this almost forgotten figure. In the months since then, I have fou...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/12/century-birthday-godfrey-bjork.html

Nearly seventy years ago a 36 year old Walt Disney (his 106th birthday is today) and some stars from his new movie were featured on the cover of Time Magazine. The cover and article within are...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/12/time-magazine-december-27-1937.html

There has been plenty of buzz recently regarding the Carthay Circle Theater, with a reproduction coming soon to Disney's California Adventure. The original theater once stood in the mid-Wilshire ...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/10/snow-white-at-carthay.html

The clipping below is from a catalog for prospective students of the Chouinard Art Institute, School of Motion Picture Arts. Although undated, I believe this to be from the late 1930s, probably 1...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/10/joe-grant-at-chouinard.html

Fred, ...Meet Fred While doing research several years ago in the depths of the Main Library in downtown Los Angeles, I came across the interesting fact that during the mid-1940s, Robert Fred "...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/10/neighbors-chapter-ii.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Arthur Harold Babitzky entered the world in the unlikely city of Omaha, Nebraska, at the eastern edge of the state on the Missouri River. His parents Solomon* and ...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/10/century-birthday-art-babbitt.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Richard James Lundy, an only child, was born to parents James and Minnie Lundy a century ago today. He was born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan on the eastern tip of ...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/08/century-birthday-dick-lundy.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Virgil Walter Ross was born a century ago today in Watertown, New York. His parents, Bertha Mary (Hart) and Ellwood Burdsoll Ross, both natives of New York state, mar...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/08/century-birthday-virgil-ross.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Al Coe, and animator known for his work on shorts at Disney and Lantz and Roy Williams, long time story man at Disney were both born a century ago today! Sorry everyo...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/07/century-birthdays-al-coe-and-roy.html

Santa Barbara Like many seaside communities, Santa Barbara has been home to quite a number of artists. A handful of them would move to Los Angeles and ply their profession in the field of anim...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/04/neighbors-chapter-i.html

A BIT MORE OF THE WHERE... On a nondescript street just a short walk from the busy intersection of Western Avenue and Santa Monica Blvd. stands a building that's been there for more than eight...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/06/ghosts-of-charles-mintz-studio.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Disney composer and orchestrator Edward Holcomb Plumb was born and raised in Streator, Illinois , a town on the Vermilion River 100 miles southwest of Chicago. His pa...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/06/century-birthday-edward-plumb.html

After the United States entered World War II in December 1941 the service from the animation community was considerable. Most people continued to work at the studios, albeit on far differen...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/05/memorial-day-tribute.html

If the name of animator Godfrey Bjork comes up in conversation, it is most often accompanied by the name of Emile Offeman. The story, as told by Shamus Culhane in his autobiography, Talking An...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/05/short-life-of-godfrey-bjork.html

Flashback to 1940 Along with stories about birthdays and weddings being celebrated, an insight on a studio in transition; a note about the Ink & Paint Department moving from Hyperion to...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/05/disney-bulletin-may-3-1940.html

Jay Ward, the joyfully irreverent pioneer of TV animation, has a personal background that is very elusive. Even to long-time friends, co-workers and biographers some aspects of his life have be...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/04/finding-jay-ward.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Cecil Hays Surry was born in the state of Washington and raised on a fruit farm in Chelan County in the center of the state. His parents, Bert and Eliza (who went by L...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/04/century-birthday-cecil-surry.html

BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY Hardie Gramatky, perhaps best known for his classic childrens book, Little Toot , was born 100 years ago today in Dallas, Texas. He was also a prolific illustrator, wa...

http://animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com/2007/04/century-birthday-hardie-gramatky.html