Animation Industry Podcast
Episode 208: How Jake Friedman Became Friends With Art Babbitt's Wife When Writing The Disney Revolt
17 May 2023
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP Get a 25% discount from www.chicagoreviewpress.com using the code DISNEY25. This chat features a special guest who gives a little bit of a history lesson behind Disney’s unionization. He is a New York-based writer, artist, and current animation history professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. His name is Jake Friedman and he’s lately added published novelist to his resume with his book, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age. In the chat he shares how he ended up befriending Art Babbitt's late wife who gave him access to the animator’s personal files, diary, original animations, court cases, and everything else he had kept. Tune in to Ibele and Friedman to hear: *Why an old professor inspired him to write The Disney Revolt *Exclusive tidbits from the NLRB vs. Disney court case *Why Babbitt decided to quit Disney after forcing them to rehire him Social Links: *Check out the Book’s website: https://www.thedisneyrevolt.com/ *Check out Jake Friedman’s website: https://www.jakesfriedman.com/
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