Limpet Wars – Limpets Information

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Art Babbitt discusses his life and animation in this 1987 documentary by Imogen Sutton (wife of Richard Williams). The 40-minute film includes interviews with Richard Williams and Andreas Deja, and early footage from The Thief and the Cobbler. Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 — March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as animation director and animator, but is most famous for creating Goofy. Art Babbitt began his career in New York City working for Paul Terry’s Terrytoons Studio. But in the early 1930s he moved to Los Angeles followed by his fellow Terrytoon colleague Bill Tytla, and got a job animating for the Walt Disney Studio. His first important work was a drunken mouse in the short “The Country Cousin”(1936). Art Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on such films as The Three Little Pigs (1933), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Fantasia (1940), and The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), among others. He animated the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Geppetto in Pinocchio, Zeus, Vulcan, and the dancing mushrooms in Fantasia, and the stork in Dumbo. Despite being one of the highest paid animators at Disney, Babbitt was sympathetic to the cause of lower echelon Disney artists seeking to form a union. This greatly displeased Walt Disney and the two had bad blood between them from then on. After leaving the Disney company …