A Chat with Leo Salkin
Leo Salkin started his career at age 19, after graduating from High School, at Walter Lantz in 1932. Salkin then moved over to Mintz, where he worked on Krazy Kat and Scrappy cartoons, followed by a stint at Disney.
Leo Salkin started his career at age 19, after graduating from High School, at Walter Lantz in 1932. Salkin then moved over to Mintz, where he worked on Krazy Kat and Scrappy cartoons, followed by a stint at Disney.
Today’s interviews from the 1987 Golden Awards Banquet feature two more women from Disney’s Ink and Paint Department, Grace Bianca Godino and Betty Anne Guenther, who both began there in…
Up next in our series of video interviews from the 1987 Golden Awards Banquet are two Disney stalwarts, Jay Gould and Wilma June McAllister Baker.
Today I chat with Lu Guarnier, a name not commonly associated with the Golden Age of Hollywood Cartoons, though he did serve his apprenticeship at Schlesinger before World War II.
Lawrence Walter Silverman and Jacob “Jake” Ozarkawitz were both journeymen animators with long careers, though little seems to have been written about them. Here’s my chat with both of them.
Jack Kinney is best known as the director of Der Fuehrer’s Face, the much admired Goofy how-to series, UPA’s first feature and a string of made-for-television Popeye cartoons. Here’s our brief chat.
Ed Love was one of the most admired animators of cartoon shorts during Hollywood’s Golden Age, a reputation that continued on through his work in television at Hanna-Barbera.
Paul John Fennell is certainly no stranger to Cartoon Research readers. A veteran of Disney, Iwerks, Warner Bros., Fleischer Studios – not to mention his Cartoon Films Ltd – and later at Hanna Barbera and Filmation.
Both Charles Couch and Robert Bentley were journeymen animation artists whose works and/or careers have attracted, at best, only modest attention. Here are my video encounters with each.
Ed Rehberg’s career in animation rests on a fairly long list of credits as a journeyman animator and director. However, his place in animation history is assured for his role in the 1947 Terrytoons strike – and his work on early TV commercials.