# The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age - Hardcover

by **Jake S. Friedman** (Author)

**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 Biography

**Jake S. Friedman** is an animation historian and author of _The Art of Blue Sky Studios_ and _The Disney Afternoon_. He has appeared as an expert on TV documentaries and written for _Animation Magazine_, _American History Magazine_, the _Huffington Post_, and _Philadelphia Daily News_. He worked for ten years as an animation artist on television shows and features, and now works as a mental health specialist, teaching the occasional History of Animation course at NYU or FIT. He lives with his wife in New York City. www.JakeSFriedman.com

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 9.06 x 5.98 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** July 05, 2022

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