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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.
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]
That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed the company. Art Babbitt worked for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and up to 1941, years in which he and Walt were driven to ...
From 1940 to 1941, animators at Walt Disney Studios were successfully organized. [20] 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] [21] [22]
1960 Writers Guild of America strike: 148 days [12] (Film) 156 days [12] (TV) [19] 1960 1960 Actors Strike 42 days [20] [21] 1952 1952 Actors Strike 79 days [22] 1945 Set decorators Hollywood Black Friday strike 231 days 1942-1944 1942–1944 musicians' strike: 834 days (the longest of all Hollywood strikes) 1941 Disney animators' strike: 115 ...
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.
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