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The Three-Fingered Hand
from Cartoonist PROfiles number 51 (September 1981)
Grim Natwick
Who invented the three-fingered hand? Someone way back in the dark ages of animation got tired of drawing hands with four fingers and simply left one off, and cartoon hands have been much easier to animate ever since. It was a stroke of genius. The four fingered hand disappeared from animation until Snow White (1937). Somehow a pretty girl didn’t look right with only three fingers. But the Seven Dwarfs still had three fingered hands.[…]

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Grim Natwick

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Source type Book Series
Volume 7 Chapter: 7
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Subject date 1981
Language en
Document type Feature
Media type text
Page count 2
Pages pp. 64-65

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Availability Purchasable
Inserted 2014-11-25