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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]
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.
Tim Burton’s live-action “Dumbo” launches March 29, a remake of the Disney classic that opened Oct. 23, 1941. That film is remembered as one of Disney’s shortest (64 minutes) and sweetest.
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 ...
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 days [20] 1936 1936 Hollywood workers strike backed by American Federation of Labor against the use of US Army and Navy involvement in motion picture production [21]
These layoffs lead directly to the Disney animators' strike in the spring of 1941. In an FBI interview three weeks after the strike began, Disney blamed these staff cuts for the strike. [8] Nevertheless, two weeks later Disney placed an ad in Hollywood trade papers stated the strike was caused by Communist agitation! [9]
Early Disney Animators Hit Walt With a Strike. Walt Disney is usually portrayed as kind and fatherly. But in 1941, the animators working for his studio viewed him in a much different light.