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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.
In May 1941, Sorrell called for a strike against the Disney film studio. [11] The strike was supported by the newly formed Screen Cartoonist's Guild, and the cooperation resulted in the organization of the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), which Sorrell proceeded to lead. [12] In 1945, Sorrell lead the CSU strike that led to Hollywood Black ...
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."
The strike ended with a victory for the Guild and defeat for Disney and the company union known as Federation of Screen Cartoonists (FSC), following the end of the strike. [5] [23] [24] The strike resulted in half the studio's employees leaving for other studios, such as David Hilberman and John Hubley, who formed United Productions of America ...
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January 5: Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author and manga artist (co-founder of Studio Ghibli). January 8: Graham Chapman, English actor and comedian (occasional voices in Terry Gilliam's animated shorts in Monty Python's Flying Circus and the film spin-offs), (d. 1989). [36]
Disneyland workers are participating this week in a strike authorization vote amid contract negotiations with Disney.
Then on October 27, 1941, due to the Disney animators' strike and World War II which had cut off Disney's foreign release market caused serious debts so Disney put The Legend of Happy Valley on hold. [5] Meanwhile, production was starting on Bongo, a film based on the short story written by Sinclair Lewis for Cosmopolitan magazine in 1930.