Animation Guild | We are 839 Digital Magazine
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D E PA R T M E N T 11 KEYFRAME Animator Jim Carmichael takes over editorship of The Peg- Board with a regular publishing schedule. He designates his first issue as Volume 1, Number 1, establishing the sequencing we use to this day. 1963 1970 1969 1972 AUTUMN Local 839 is fully moved into its new offices on 4729 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood. The location will serve as the Guild home for more than 25 years. AUGUST 13 In response to "runaway production" (subcontracting animation work in other countries), Local 839 goes on strike against major T V studios Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Spears Productions, and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. AUGUST 24 The strike ends! The studios agree to a "runaway clause" guaranteeing in-studio staffing levels before a limited amount of work can be subcontracted out of the country. NOVEMBER The first Annie Awards ceremony is held at the Sportsmen's Lodge. The honorees are brothers Dave and Max Fleischer, creators of Betty Boop. SEPTEMBER 13 Veteran animator Don Bluth leads one-third of Walt Disney Studio's young animation staff in a mass resignation. They set up a new studio, Don Bluth Productions. With The Secret of NIMH, Bluth offers the first profit sharing contract (albeit with a wage cut) in the animation industry. OCTOBER 15 Lyn Farris (later Lyn Mantta) is hired as a bookkeeper by Local 839. She later becomes the office manager, and when she retires in 2021, hers is the longest tenure in the Guild's history. 1980 1979 JANUARY 30 For his Ph.D. thesis, MIT graduate student Ivan Sutherland created a computer program called Sketchpad. For the first time, a computer can be used to draw lines—paving the way for today's complex animation software. AUGUST Following a "mini-con" in March, The Golden State Comic Book Convention debuts with more than 300 people in attendance. It will later change its name to San Diego Comic-Con and draw in crowds of more than 150,000. Blacklisted for union activities on the East Coast, Animator and layout artist LOUIS "LOU" APPET comes west and is eventually elected president of Local 839. 1965 One of the leaders of the 1941 Disney Strike, MOE GOLLUB helms the Guild during both of its "runaway production" strikes. 1978- 1982 Having worked with many of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, HARRY "BUD" HESTER serves as Guild president. MID- 1970S