Animation Artifacts 21 Dec 2006 08:19 am
Top Cel Christmas
- MP Local 841, the NY Cartoonist’s Guild (when it was operational) printed their newsletter – Top Cel. This was the issue for Christmas 1944, 6 months before the end of WW II. The names of all those animation union members in the military show up in Santa’s Beard.
Since Christmas is a week away, and troops are “over there” (thanks to our scurrilous administration), I thought this would be appropriate.
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Thinking about it, I wondered if any animation artists, other than Willard Bowsky, were killed in the War. I have some research to do.
In today’s Wall Street Journal John Canemaker has a piece about Joe Barbera.
on 21 Dec 2006 at 9:17 pm 1.Tom Sito said …
Dear Mike, Thanks for the posting. I know that we had two animators on Bataan who survived the Death March, Ken Southworth and Harry Holt, Jim Logan of course was in Kumming China, Disney assistant Dale Oliver was a glider pilot with the 82nd Airborne on D-Day and layout designer Victor Haboush went ashore on Omaha Beach.
Gil Miret was a tailgunner on a B-24 bomber that flew night missions over Southern Europe. Chuck Jones had a hilarious story of a Warner Bros assistant who wanted to be a fighter pilot but was terrible at it. He crashed so many planes in training stateside that his buddies named him an honorary Japanese Ace!
Obviously I’d love to know more about our cartoon family in wartime.