I’ve recently been digitizing interviews I’ve done over the years, especially those I did relating to my PhD dissertation, “Popeye the Union Man,” which dealt with the Fleischer strike and attempts to organize the Van Buren studio in the 1930s. . While I was at it, I also did a good number of interviews with [...]
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“It’s Not Cricket to Pass a Picket”– The Disney Strike 70 Years Later
June 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · American cinema, Politics, Unions
May 28th marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Disney strike by members of the Screen Cartoon Guild (later the Screen Cartoonist Guild). The nine-week walkout, precipitated by the firing of Art Babbitt, the head of the Guild’s Disney’s unit, is a legendary event whose full story has yet to be told. Though [...]
Tags: Art Babbitt·Conference of Studio Unions·Dan Noonan·Disney Studios·Herb Sorrell·Screen Cartoonists Guild·UPA·Willie Bioff