#wc fields

W. C. Fields born January 29, 1880 in Darby, Pennsylvania

🎞 American actor, comedian, juggler and writer who began his career in vaudeville.

The sort of thing people had before home video became ubiquitous. You can digitally borrow them here.

Margaret Hamilton & W.C. Fields

Seein' Stars Daily Comic Panel (Dec14th1940)

With W.C. Fields, Vincent Price And Virginia Field

Original Art

Art by Feg Murray

King Features Syndicate

From Heritage Auctions...

Except for Fields everyone is having a good time on “The Charlie McCarthy Show” in 1939.

Screenland magazine, March 1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) took 3 years, 750 artists, and nearly 2 million separate paintings to complete. The approximately 750 artists comprised about 32 animators, 102 assistant animators, 167 'in-betweeners,' 20 layout artists, 25 watercolour background artists, 65 effects animators, and 158 female inkers and painters.

Disney famously undervalued(s) the work of these artists and used the profits from Snow White to expand the studio and install luxuries such as a restaurant, gym, steam room etc that were only accessible to a very limited group of executives and head writers/animators. Individual departments were segregated from one another and heavily policed against fratranisation or perceived slights to the company. Employees were expected to work long overtime without compensation and the pay renumeration scheme was uneven and disorganised, with workers being paid substantially more or less for the same work due to internal politics and/or disorganisation. All this led to the animator's strike of 1941, which of course featured placards of the highest quality:

This photo likely shows John Garfield supporting the protest!