Roland Crandall

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Roland Crandall (* 29. August 1892 in New Canaan , Connecticut ; † 14. August 1972 in Greenwich Connecticut) was an American artist of animated films . His best-known work is the Betty Boop film Snow White (1933).

Life

Crandall's extraordinary talent for drawing attracted attention early on. He attended the Yale School of Art and became one of the animators that producer John Randolph Bray gathered around him. He was one of the first employees at Fleischer Studios , where he worked on the films about Koko the Clown in the 1920s .

The Betty Boop version of Snow White (1933) was allowed Crandall almost completely alone animate his producer Dave and Max Fleischer wanted to know understood in recognition of his long and faithful service. The film was declared Culturally Significant by the Library of Congress and entered the National Film Registry . In 1994 it was voted number 19 of the 50 best cartoons of all time by cartoonists.

Today there are still 46 known films on which Crandall worked. He started at JR Bray Studios in 1920 , where he met the Fleischer brothers, whom he followed to Fleischer Studios in 1921 . Here he mainly worked on the series about Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop . In 1939 Crandall was one of the twelve directors of Gulliver's Travels , a prestige project by Fleischer Studios , the first full-length American cartoon that was not produced by Walt Disney .

Crandall retired in 1941 from the film business as Paramount , the Fleischer Studios concluded. He moved to Bridgeport , Connecticut , where he worked as an illustrator and advertising artist.

Filmography (selection)

Betty Boop films

  • 1932: Stopping the Show
  • 1932: Betty Boop for President
  • 1933: Snow White (Snow-White)
  • 1933: Mother Goose Land
  • 1934: She Wronged Him Right
  • 1934: Ha! Ha! Ha!
  • 1934: Betty in Blunderland
  • 1934: Poor Cinderella
  • 1938: Thrills and Chills
  • 1939: So Does an Automobile

Popeye the Sailor Movies

  • 1933: Popeye the Sailor
  • 1933: I Eats My Spinach
  • 1933: Seasin's Greetinks!
  • 1934: Sock-a-Bye, baby
  • 1934: Strong to the Finich
  • 1934: Ax Me Another
  • 1934: A Dream Walking
  • 1935: The 'Hyp-Nut-Tist'
  • 1935: For Better or Worser
  • 1935: Adventures of Popeye
  • 1935: The Spinach Overture
  • 1936: Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
  • 1936: A Clean Shaven Man
  • 1936: Brotherly Love
  • 1936: Bridge Ahoy!
  • 1936: What - No Spinach?
  • 1936: Never Kick a Woman
  • 1940: Shakespearian Spinach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Snow-White (1933) - Trivia - IMDb
  2. ↑ Jerry Beck: The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals . 1994
  3. ↑ Roland Crandall - IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Crandall, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animator
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH New Canaan , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1972
Place of death Greenwich , Connecticut