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Ambrozi "Amby" Paliwoda (December 20, 1909 – June 9, 1999) was an American animator.

Early life and education

An American of Ukrainian descent, Paliwoda grew up in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.[1]

Paliwoda graduated with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Art.[2] He contributed a painting, Out of the Past, the Present, Out of the Material, the Spiritual, to the Cleveland Public Library's Jefferson branch through the Works Progress Administration arts program.[1] He spent the next year touring Europe on an art scholarship.[3]

Work with Disney Studios

Paliwoda moved to Los Angeles in 1935. His first job there was painting nudes on the ceiling of a restaurant.[3] He applied for a job at Disney in Hollywood. Although there was great competition for jobs at Disney he hired by Don Graham, who had taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, because of his fine arts background. The studio had begun work on Snow White which needed more realism, and thus knowledge of bodies and movement, than earlier cartoons.[3] He worked from 1935 to 1960 at Walt Disney Studios, first as an assistant animator and later as an animator.[4] His first film work was on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937).[5]

World War II

Paliwoda served in the United States military during World War II.[6][7] He trained with the Signal Corps[8] and worked on Army training films.[9] In his leisure time, played chess with Milt Kahl.[10]

Later cartoon work

After leaving Disney, he worked for other studios, including Hanna-Barbera and Duck Soup Producktions.[9][11][12] He was the supervising animator on Bill Cosby's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. At Duck Soup Producktions he work primarily on animated advertisements for products such as Levi jeans and Froot Loops cereal.[3]

Awards and honors

For his lifetime of work in the animation field, Paliwoda received the Animation Guild's Golden Award in 1985.[9]

Later life and death

Paliwoda, a resident of Manhattan Beach, California,[13] died on June 9, 1999.[14][15] Ralph Bakshi's short 2015 film Last Days of Coney Island was dedicated to the memory Paliwoda (and others).[16]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ a b Keating, W. Dennis (2016-04-11). A Brief History of Tremont: Cleveland’s Neighborhood on a Hill. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62585-318-9.
  2. ^ Ohles, John F.; Ohles, Shirley M. (1982). Private Colleges and Universities. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-23323-4.
  3. ^ a b c d "Artist (continued)". The Daily Breeze. 1979-10-28. p. 34. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  4. ^ "West: Hagmann, Impastato, Stephens & Kerns". Back Stage. Mar 21, 1980; 21, 12. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. Pg. 23. Via Proquest.
  5. ^ Gibson, Jon M.; McDonnell, Chris (2008). Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-1684-4.
  6. ^ "Cartoonist inducted". Oakland Tribune. 1941-04-02. p. 30. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  7. ^ "Disney aid inducted". The Salt Lake Tribune. 1941-04-02. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  8. ^ Schatz, Thomas (1999-11-23). Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22130-7.
  9. ^ a b c "The Second Annual Golden Awards Banquet, March 1, 1985: The Video, Part 2 |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  10. ^ Takamoto, Iwao; Mallory, Michael (2009). Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-193-4.
  11. ^ "The animator: Characters draw life from artist's pen". The Daily Breeze. 1979-10-28. p. 33. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  12. ^ "Duck Soup Finds Out There 's Life After Clio. Back Stage. Aug 28, 1981; 22, 36. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. Pg. 55. Via Proquest.
  13. ^ "Cleveland". Boxoffice. Nov 29, 1976; 110, 8. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. Pg. ME3. Via Proquest.
  14. ^ "Death notice". The Los Angeles Times. 1999-06-24. p. 326. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  15. ^ Canada, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and (2000). Official Bulletin. IATSE.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Last Days of Coney Island, retrieved 2022-03-19
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