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Blog Post: The female artists & animators who changed Disney Studio’s “boys will be boys” culture

Floyd Norman

There’s a mistaken notion that back in the 1950s the Walt Disney Studio was strictly a man’s world and women were not even allowed in the Animation Building. It was believed that women employees were restricted to the “women’s work” over in the Ink and Paint Department where...

on5 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Toon Tuesday: Funky Warehouse Syndrome

Floyd Norman

Some years ago, I watched helplessly as Walt Disney's animation department was moved out of their old building on the Burbank lot. You see, the new management needed room to expand, and animators took up space. So clearly somebody had to go. The Animation Building on Disney's Burbank Lot. You can wait...

on12 May 2009
Blog Post: Toon Tuesday: The curious case of Elizabeth Case

Floyd Norman

We called her "Big Liz" because she was tall. Animation artist Rolly Crump even featured her in a series of black & white posters that he designed back in the 1950s. The wonderful stylized poster featured Elizabeth Case Zwicker giving poetry readings at a local Beatnik hangout. That's right, kids...

on19 May 2008