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Walt Disney Took Another Giant Step!
Izzy Klein

As remembered by I. Klein in Cartoonist PROfiles number 34 (March 1977).

At the time I joined the Walt Disney Studio’s animation staff I was completely unaware that a feature cartoon, Snow White, was in the early stages of production at this studio. I had been in Hollywood for about fourteen months animating at Columbia Pictures’ Screen Gems before I was engaged by Walt Disney. My wife Ann and I saw a lot of two top Disney men, Ted Sears and Bill Tytla. They were frequent guests at our home. They never said a word to indicate that the Studio was producing or working on any other films beyond “Mickey Mouse” and “Silly Symphonies.”

Even Walt Disney, with whom I spent almost an hour at the time he engaged me to work on his staff, did not let on that a major cartoon production was in progress. So it followed that I had many interesting surprises coming my way. This was in the spring of 1936. […]

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Source type Book Series
Volume 6 Chapter: 5
Published
Subject date 1977
Language en
Document type Feature
Media type text
Page count 3
Pages pp. 56-58

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Availability Purchasable
Inserted 2014-11-25