159:. It featured a screaming Hitler Ostrich who gathered up followers and loose sand dunes. Oscar was the good ostrich who stuck his head in the sand and ignored the screaming, dangerous one. Then the Hitler Ostrich seized the sand dune to the East. This clearly referred to the September 1, 1939 German seizure of Poland which marked the start of World War II, even as Stalin still supported Germany. Oscar and his buddies decide it is time to get angry and fight back.
240:, which were to mark the beginning of end of the witch-hunt, if not its substantial political and personal after-effects. After talking to film producers and directors in France and Italy, Hilberman chose work in London for over a year where he set up a TV animated commercial department for Pearl and Dean and directed Calling All Salesmen. The family returned home in late 1955.
236:, listed the companies that had used Tempo and urged a boycott of the firm. Abruptly, orders for commercials were withdrawn and all employees had to be laid off. The business was sold and the family traveled to Europe the next spring as David looked for work in Western Europe. Their boat trip to Europe overlapped with the
140:, Disney's first animated feature film. The film, which had been a major gamble for the Walt Disney studio became a huge artistic and financial success and lead to a series of pioneering animation features. He went on to do layout on six short films and was then put in charge of pre-production layout for
114:. In 1932 he traveled with friends to Russia, where all of their parents had been born. He stayed for six months in Leningrad, worked in a theater and studied stagecraft and art. Unable to speak Russian and finding Russians too dogmatic, he returned to Cleveland. There he resumed his education at
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noted: "Arguably, no studio since Walt Disney exerted such a great influence on world animation." He and Zack
Schwartz went on to start Tempo Productions which became an early leader in television animated commercial production. In short, he played an important role in the new directions the art form
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in the spring of 1941. In an FBI interview three weeks after the strike began, Disney blamed these staff cuts for the strike. Nevertheless, two weeks later Disney placed an ad in
Hollywood trade papers stated the strike was caused by Communist agitation! Many of these issues are discussed in Karl
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Many artists had worked long unpaid hours on Snow White. Instead of overtime pay, virtually all employees were promised bonuses for their efforts, some large, some small. Many were never paid as much of the revenues from the feature went into building the new Disney Studio in
Burbank. Importantly,
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doing layout for a variety of projects, a connection which began at Disney's and lasted many years. In 1963 David returned to school part-time earning an MA in
Theater Arts from UCLA in 1965. He was invited to teach at San Francisco State University in 1967, where he taught animation and helped
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met in
Hollywood. Walt Disney blamed the strike on communist agitators rather than acknowledging unexplained layoffs of artists previously attributed to the studio's financial stress. Disney named several artists, including Hilberman as Communists. Similarly, other movie studio executives named
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began. The social justice issues which motivated the
Hilbermans to attend some Communist Party meetings in the late 1930s and early 1940s—worker's rights, unions, women's rights, an end to racism – were regarded as subversive. One of the FBI special agents who was involved chasing commies found
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Hilberman was drafted into the army toward the end of World War II and a year after his return to civilian life he sold his interest in UPA. The end of the war and the 1946 elections brought a sharp right turn in
American politics. Exploiting fears of the Soviet Union (unrealistic given the
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In 1947 David
Hilberman and Zack Schwartz founded another studio in New York City: Tempo Productions which went on to become a very successful producer of television animated commercials of high artistic merit. In December 1953 at the height of the red scare the newsletter
331:. His wife Libbie's warmth and caring held the family together through many difficult moves. She died on 11 July 2006, David a year later on 5 July 2007. They are survived by 3 children, 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
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The after effects of the Studio's economic downturn and the strike included a major exodus of talent from Disney. In 1943 David
Hilberman, Zack Schwartz and Steve Bosustow, set up a new studio, which became
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the Studio's revenues had been cut in nearly half by the WWII in Europe. By early 1941 artists were being let go without explanation, even when senior and very skilled. These layoffs lead directly to the
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used for the panoramas through the woods. He was proud of the work done at the studio. The rise of Hitler in
Germany during the 1930’s was of growing concern for many. David, (pen name Mark David) with
338:. He expressed his religion primarily by a commitment to social justice, racial and gender equality and direct support for workers through health insurance, unions and similar programs and policies.
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and based on U.S. Army studies of recruits in WWI. It was nevertheless banned by the War Department as subversive due to its assertion that racial differences were superficial.
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himself thinking "Gee this isn't all that bad. They want equal rights in the union for minorities and blacks and equal pay for women. What the hell is wrong with this?"
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doing the animation at their respective companies. Melendez took the simplified modern animation style and use of artist's individual characters pioneered at UPA to the
90:(18 December 1911 – 5 July 2007) was an American animator and one of the founders of classic 1940s animation. An innovator in the animation industry, he co-founded
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many union activists as Communists and the attack on the unions turned into a nasty witch-hunt. Best known for the 10 Screen Writers denounced as Communists, the
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