Inside the studio, work wasn’t nearly as happy as it was for the seven miners whose worst worry was bad housekeeping. Friedman’s The Disney Revolt, an engaging and vital addition that appeals beyond the bounds of much labor history. The behind-the-scenes conflict very effectively laid out in Jake S. But that animated happiness was created by hundreds of animators working long hours, often at low pay with no job security, leading animators to seek protection in collective organizing. The studio became not just one of the pre-eminent animation studios, but major film studios internationally, rising to fame during the Depression, when temporary relaxation in front of the silver screen was one of the few affordable releases from the incessant deprivation. Disney sold millions of tickets presenting that animated air of happiness. So sang Snow White as she tidied up the Seven Dwarves’ cottage in the Disney Studio’s ground-breaking and blockbuster full-length animated feature, with the help of many smiling, eager (and one presumes unpaid) forest animals. Just do your best and take a rest and sing yourself a song Put on that grin and start right in to whistle loud and long FriedmanĬhicago Review Press, 2022, Chicago, 322 pp The Disney Revolt, The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age by Jake S.
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