{"id":119783,"date":"2025-03-08T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/tag-blog-in-memoriam-bill-littlejohn\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T10:17:53","slug":"tag-blog-in-memoriam-bill-littlejohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=119783","title":{"rendered":"TAG Blog: In Memoriam: Bill Littlejohn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sYxFbdDEhus\/WSy88gU76pI\/AAAAAAAAAU0\/UX3jG6Z_6289tR5fvvN0kE92hHnV-AWvgCLcB\/s1600\/Bill_Littlejohn.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"258\" data-original-width=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sYxFbdDEhus\/WSy88gU76pI\/AAAAAAAAAU0\/UX3jG6Z_6289tR5fvvN0kE92hHnV-AWvgCLcB\/s1600\/Bill_Littlejohn.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bill Littlejohn &#8211; image via awn.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nAeronautical engineer, Army test pilot, animator on &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; and ASIFA-Hollywood co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, union organizer too. Thank you, Bill Littlejohn!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"\/><br \/>On May 29, 1941, Bill Littlejohn, together with Art Babbitt, coordinated the Disney strike that lasted through the summer of 1941, ending only when Federal mediators were called in. Bill&#8217;s efforts paved the way for what we know today as <a href=\"https:\/\/animationguild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animationguild.org\/contracts-wages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wage minimums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpiphp.org\/benefits\/active_plan\/activeplan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">healthcare<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpiphp.org\/benefits\/pension_iap\/pensioniap.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">pension<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/animationguild.org\/benefits\/#401kPlan\" target=\"_blank\">other retirement benefits<\/a> are just some of the things made possible by the efforts of Bill Littlejohn and others.<\/p>\n<p>Read Tom Sito&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/animationworld\/disney-strike-1941-how-it-changed-animation-comics\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> about the 1941 Disney strike.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Littlejohn passed away in 2010 at the age of 96. You can read more about Bill&#8217;s life here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harvey Deneroff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/a-chat-with-bill-melendez-and-bill-littlejohn\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on Bill Littlejohn and Bill Melendez &#8211; with video.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Cartoon Brew<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/animators\/bill-littlejohn-1914-2010-28132.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on Bill Littlejohn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-bill-littlejohn-20100921-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">His obituary<\/a> in the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, by Charles Solomon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Littlejohn &#8211; image via awn.com Aeronautical engineer, Army test pilot, animator on &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; and ASIFA-Hollywood co-founder. And of course, union organizer too. Thank you, Bill Littlejohn! On May 29, 1941, Bill Littlejohn, together with Art Babbitt, coordinated the Disney strike that lasted through the summer of 1941, ending only when Federal mediators were called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12035],"tags":[6795,3767,52977,23219,1791],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-119783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","tag-bill","tag-blog","tag-littlejohn","tag-memoriam","tag-tag"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TAG Blog: In Memoriam: Bill Littlejohn - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=119783\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TAG Blog: In Memoriam: Bill Littlejohn - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bill Littlejohn &#8211; image via awn.com Aeronautical engineer, Army test pilot, animator on &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; and ASIFA-Hollywood co-founder. 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