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The strike reflected anger at inequities of pay and privileges at Disney, a non-unionized workplace. Walt Disney responded to the five-week strike by firing many of his animators, but was eventually pressured into recognizing the Screen Cartoonist's Guild (SCG) by signing a contract with them, which involved, amongst other concessions, rehiring ...
Victory Through Air Power is an American adult animated documentary propaganda film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists on July 17, 1943. It was based on the 1942 book Victory Through Air Power by Alexander P. de Seversky, who also appeared in the film. [1]
The 1982 animators' strike was a labor strike conducted by American animators in the Greater Los Angeles area. The strike, organized by the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Local 839, was caused by disagreements between the labor union and studios over runaway productions, a term referring to outsourcing production work to outside of the metropolitan area.
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The Walt Disney Co. eventually pleaded guilty in this Disney controversy and agreed to pay $10,000 in fines and donate $75,000 to the state of Florida toward an educational program on wildlife ...
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Any revision of this article should take into account the full and judiciously balanced account of the strike in Neal Gabler's definitive biography of Walt Disney. The Schickel book is quite hostile to Disney, and Schickel did not have the access to original sources that Gabler had. 173.16.252.154 18:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Filmmaker Walt Disney read the book, and felt that its message was so important that he would personally finance a partly-animated short, also called Victory Through Air Power, which was released in July 1943. [3] Disney's purpose for creating the film was to promote Seversky's theories to government officials and the public.