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The Disney animators' strike was a 1941 American film industry work stoppage where unionized employees of Walt Disney Productions picketed and disrupted film production for just under four months. The strike reflected anger at inequities of pay and privileges at Disney, a non-unionized workplace.
From 1940 to 1941, animators at Walt Disney Studios were successfully organized. [18] The SCG would be instrumental in the strike at Walt Disney Productions in 1941, which began when studio head Walt Disney fired Art Babbitt for being a member of the SCG, prompting more than 200 employees to go on strike. [2] [19] [20]
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.
After the meeting, Disney fired Babbitt and 16 other pro-union artists. [6] The 1941 Disney animators strike began the next day. As animators marched in front of the Disney studio in Burbank, Littlejohn, who was a pilot, flew overhead and, in his words, "wiggled my wings" at the picketers, who "wiggled their signs back at me."
154 days (the longest strike in the guild's history) [9] 1987 1987 Directors Strike 19 hours and 41 minutes (the shortest of all Hollywood strikes) [10] 1986 1986 Actors Strike 1 day [11] 1985 1985 Writers Strike 14 days 1982 1982 animators' strike: 72 days 1981 1981 Writers Guild of America strike: 92 days [12] [13] 1980 1980 actors strike: 95 ...
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher railed against Disney CEO Bob Iger during an interview with Variety on the strike picket lines outside of the Paramount Pictures studio lot. In a July 13 ...
The film was the first feature-length animated film by the Disney studio. [3] Kimball spent months working on the scene in which the Seven Dwarfs are eating soup, prepared for them by Snow White. [3] This scene, however, was ultimately cut to shorten the length of the film. Kimball was a strikebreaker in 1941, breaking the Disney animators' strike.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...