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Disney animator, Floyd Norman, will be the subject of a documentary,"Floyd Norman: An Animated Life".
http://nypost.com/2016/08/20/this-81-year-old-got-fired-from-disney-and-refuses-to-stop-working/
The doc actually looks pretty interesting. Norman has worked on several Disney classics including "Mary Poppins", "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Jungle Book" and even Pixar films like "Monster's Inc" and Toy Story. As well as several TV shows for Hanna-Barbera. He has been fired from Disney twice due to his age and he was Disney's first ever African-American animator.
One thing that intrigued me was the fact that the second time he was fired, he came back to work at Disney as a contractor instead of an animator, but his contract ended so he just started hanging around the studio without even actually being employed their. Currently, his 20-years younger wife also works at Disney.
http://nypost.com/2016/08/20/this-81-year-old-got-fired-from-disney-and-refuses-to-stop-working/
The doc actually looks pretty interesting. Norman has worked on several Disney classics including "Mary Poppins", "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Jungle Book" and even Pixar films like "Monster's Inc" and Toy Story. As well as several TV shows for Hanna-Barbera. He has been fired from Disney twice due to his age and he was Disney's first ever African-American animator.
One thing that intrigued me was the fact that the second time he was fired, he came back to work at Disney as a contractor instead of an animator, but his contract ended so he just started hanging around the studio without even actually being employed their. Currently, his 20-years younger wife also works at Disney.