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The film was released in the middle of the Disney animators' strike of 1941. Strikers picketed the film's premiere with signs that attacked Disney for unfair business practices, low pay, lack of recognition, and favoritism. At one theater, sympathizers paraded down the street wearing a "dragon costume bearing the legend 'The Reluctant Disney'". [5]
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.
The Milky Way, directed by Rudolf Ising, produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It is the first animated cartoon not produced by Disney to win an Oscar. [2] Pinocchio, produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios, wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score, while When You ...
Production on the film was interrupted on May 29, 1941, when much of the Disney animation staff went on strike. Kimball chose to not to strike, but his close friend Walt Kelly , who was an assistant animator helping him on the crow sequence, left the studios shortly after for reasons unrelated to the strike.
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]
First animated feature, and first feature film to be presented in stereophonic surround sound. Won 2 special Academy Awards. November 13, 1940 () 1941 The Reluctant Dragon: United States: Alfred Werker (live action) Hamilton Luske (animation) Walt Disney Productions: Traditional/Live action: Package film/Documentary June 21, 1941 ()
Walt Disney Animation Studios; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures: November 13, 1940 Fantasia; June 20, 1941 The Reluctant Dragon; October 23, 1941 Dumbo; August 13, 1942 Bambi; February 6, 1943 Saludos Amigos; July 17, 1943 Victory Through Air Power: Walt Disney Animation Studios; distributed by United Artists: February 3, 1945 The Three Caballeros
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."