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Steve Bosustow

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Founder, Story, Sales
Notes

We interviewed Steve Bosustow several times, probably the most important one was an audio-only interview in three consecutive sessions at a friend’s home in Bel Aire, in 1977. As a result of Dave and Zack’s departure, Bosustow ran UPA from the mid 1940s, until Hank Saperstein took over in 1960.

Bill Scott said, during a tribute to Bobe, Hub, and Steve, at the Motion Picture Academy, “Steve’s strength was sales.”  If that’s true, his single most important contribution was convincing Columbia Pictures to allow UPA to create a short of their own choosing, for every Mr. Magoo they made.  And, those “Jolly Frolics” as they were initially called were the biggest legacy of UPA, and the primary subjects of our documentary feature.

Steve Bosustow is part of two presently unreleased scenes.

Art Babbitt

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Animator
Notes

Art Babbitt is an audio-only interview conducted in 1978 at the Bosustow Santa Monica studio for the Filmex Tribute screening in Century City, California.

Although Babbitt is not often though of as part of the UPA artists, he was connected in part by his role in the 1941 Disney strike, which many of the UPA artists participated in.  Plus, Babbitt animated on many of the UPA shorts, and is most often admired for his animation of the bear chasing the dandelion, a la ballet dancer/glider, in Grizzly Golfer.  He also directed UPAs Family Circus.

Art Babbitt is part of a presently unreleased scene.