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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.
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 ...
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] [21] [22] 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 ...
May 24: Tex Avery's Hollywood Steps Out, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, is first released.It features caricatures of Hollywood stars. [8]May 29: Disney animators' strike: At the Walt Disney Animation Studios a five-week strike breaks out to ask for higher payment and privileges.
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 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]
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