Robert Stokes (animator)
Robert George Stokes (19 April 1908 – 17 February 1980, Palm Springs, California[1]), was an American animator who worked for diverse studios between 1932 and 1941, including Harman-Ising Pictures (1932–33; 1934–36), Iwerks Studio (1933–34), Walt Disney Productions (1937–39) and Leon Schlesinger Productions (1939–41).[2]
At the beginning of the 1930s, Stokes was an instructor at the Chouinard School of Art.[3] He became a Walt Disney Productions employee in January 1937.[3] David Johnson of Animation Artist Magazine said that in the 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stoke's drawing of Snow White preparing to take a bit out of the apple is "perhaps the single most published drawing of the film's heroine". According to Johnson, Stokes' contribution to the film "has gone so long un-recognized".[4]
In 1940, he co-founded Stokes-Edmonds Productions with Paul Edmonds, who worked for Boris Morros Productions. The company intended to create technicolor animated cartoons about "Sassy Sis", a girl was red-headed and five years old.[5]
Filmography
- 1933: Bosko's Knight-Mare
- 1933: Bosko the Musketeer
- 1934: Rasslin' Round
- 1934: The Good Scout
- 1937: The Old Mill
- 1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- 1940: Fantasia
Notes and references
- ↑ Robert Stokes on IMDb
- ↑ Salda, Michael N. (2013). Arthurian Animation: A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0-7864-7468-4. Retrieved 2026-06-07 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 197. ISBN 0-19-503759-6. Retrieved 2026-06-07 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Johnson, David (2000). "The Four Faces of Snow". Animation Artist Magazine. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original on 2006-02-04. Retrieved 2026-06-07.
- ↑ "New Cartoon Company". The Hollywood Reporter. 59. 1940. Retrieved 2026-06-07 – via Google Books.
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