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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.
May 29: Disney animators' strike: At the Walt Disney Animation Studios a five-week strike breaks out to ask for higher payment and privileges. While the demands are eventually met, several animators are either fired by Disney or quit. [9]
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]
Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised Walt Disney Productions far beyond Walt’s expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed the company. Art ...
Other notable strikes during this time include the 1941 Disney animators' strike at Walt Disney Productions and a 1947 strike at Terrytoons that was the longest in the industry's history, lasting 28 weeks. [1] By January 1942, this strong push amongst labor organizers had resulted in 90 percent of animators in the United States belonging to a ...
Patterson left Disney in 1941 during an animation strike. He would briefly reunite with Screen Gems , now creatively supervised by Frank Tashlin , before moving to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in 1943, with his first short for them being War Dogs , followed by Baby Puss , his debut on the Tom and Jerry series.
Walt Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee claiming that communists once 'took over' his studio. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe family-friendly, controversy-averse Walt ...
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."