Roland Crandall
Roland Crandall ( born August 29, 1892 in New Canaan, Connecticut; † August 14, 1972 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) was an American artist of animated films. His most famous film is the Betty Boop version of Snow White ( 1933).
Life
Crandall's extraordinary talent for drawing was up early. He attended the Yale School of Art and was one of the animators, the producer John Randolph Bray gathered around. He was one of the first employees of the Fleischer Studios, where he worked in the 1920s at the movies to Koko the Clown.
The Betty Boop version of Snow White (1933 ) could Crandall animate almost completely alone, his producers Dave and Max Fleischer wanted to know understood as an award for his long and faithful services. The film was declared by the Library of Congress for culturally important and added to the National Film Registry. In 1994 he was elected by character animators in 19th place of the 50 best animated films of all time.
Today there are still 46 films announced, in which Crandall cooperated. He began in 1920 with J. R. Bray Studios, where he met the Fleischer brothers, which he followed in 1921 Fleischer Studios. Here he worked mainly on the series to Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop. Crandall 1939 was one of the twelve directors of Gulliver 's Travels, a prestigious project of Fleischer Studios, the first full-length American animated film that was not produced by Walt Disney.
Crandall retired in 1941 from the film business, as Paramount completed the Fleischer Studios. He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he worked as an illustrator and commercial artist.