The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781641607193)

An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years.

Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.

But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them. Soon, angry Disney cartoon characters graced picket signs as hundreds of animation artists went out on strike. Adding fuel to the fire was Willie Bioff, one of Al Capone's wiseguys who was seizing control of Hollywood workers and vied for the animators' union.

Using never-before-seen research from previously lost records, including conversation transcriptions from within the studio walls, author and historian Jake S. Friedman reveals the details behind the labor dispute that changed animation and Hollywood forever.

The Disney Revolt is an American story of industry and of the underdog, the golden age of animated cartoons at the world's most famous studio.

Author: Jake S. Friedman
ISBN-10: 164160719X
ISBN-13: 9781641607193
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 4
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 66