The Terrytoons Inc. Strike (there a more common name?) was a 1947 American film industry work stoppage where unionized employees of ??? picketed and disrupted film production for lasting 28 weeks, the longest strike in the history of the American animation industry.[1]
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In 1947, the Guild had an unsuccessful twenty-eight-week strike against Terrytoons, Inc. despite receiving support from other unions. Terrytoons hired students from New Rochelle High School as scabs, and Paul Terry outlasted strikers with a "large backlog of unreleased films".[2][3] The strike was later described as the animation industry's "most devastating blow" for animators.[4]
base on this page: 1982 animators' strike
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- ^ Lent, John A. (2016). "The Unfunny Tale of Labor and Cartooning in the US and Around the World". In Maxwell, Richard (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media. New York City: Routledge. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-135-04249-3.
- ^ "Warner Brothers Battle & Terrytoons Strike". The Animation Guild. Archived from the original on May 8, 2023. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
- ^ Cohen, Karl F. (2004). Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America. McFarland & Company. p. 163-164. ISBN 9780786420322.
- ^ "Milestones Of The Animation Industry In The 20th Century". Animation World Magazine. January 2000. Archived from the original on August 16, 2023. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
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