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Feb 25, 2022 · Disney's first Black animator, Floyd Norman, has been making magic for over six decades. And at 86, he's still going strong.
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- Hosea Sanders,Marsha Jordan
Nov 16, 2022 · Disney legend Floyd Norman is an artist and animator whose career on films like “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Jungle Book,” and “Toy Story 2” merited his own documentary in 2016 (“Floyd Norman: An Animated Life”). He appears in “Mickey: The Story of a Mouse,” a Disney+ film about the iconic character.
Nov 20, 2022 · Someone who has both witnessed and been there for a large part of the studio’s journey – over a whopping span of 66 years – is legendary animator and writer, Floyd Norman.
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- Tori Brazier
Now 81, Norman still works for Disney, where he has plied his trade, on and off, since he became the studio's first African-American animator in the 1950s.
Feb 16, 2022 · Since February 7th, the film is now available to stream on the Criterion Channel, along with a selection of short films made by Vignette Films, Inc., one of the first Black-owned production companies in Hollywood that was created by Norman along with Leo Sullivan, Norman Edelen and Richard Allen.
Floyd E. Norman (born June 22, 1935) [1] is an American animator, writer, and cartoonist. Over the course of his career, he has worked for various animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Spears, Film Roman and Pixar.
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Aug 2, 2017 · Norman is now back at Disney (yes, at 82), where the "kids across the hallway" are fiddling with VR headsets. "There's a bunch of young men and women developing VR and they'll often come across...
