Walt Clinton Animation

Walter Clinton (Walt Clinton for short) (October 1st, 1906 - January 15th, 1992) was an American animator during the Golden Age of Animation. He is known as being one of the top animators at Tex Avery's unit from 1942- all the way up to when Tex's unit was shut down in March of 1953. In the late 30's, Walter became an animator, lay-out artist and character designer at Walt Disney where he worked on feature films like "Snow White" and "Pinocchio" as well as some Donald Duck shorts of the 1940's. Clinton left Disney during the infamous "Disney's Animator Strike" where over 500+ animators went on strike and either left or were fired. He soon joined MGM where he was assigned to the Tex Avery unit. The first cartoon that Walt Clinton animated on was "Wild and Woolfy" (though goes uncredited when the cartoon was reissued    • Wild and Woolfy Original titles  ) and from there, he animated on some of Avery's most legendary films like "Northwest Hounded Police", "King Sized Canary" "Bad Luck Blackie" and "Little Rural Riding Hood". After Tex's unit was shut down in March of 1953, Clinton went on to animate various TV commercials for Five Star Productions and Kling Studios. In 1957 MGM completely shut down it's animation department and many former employees were rehired at Hannah-Barbera. Clinton was hired and was assigned as a character designer and lay-out artist and worked on early HB shows from 1957 to the mid 60's like "Ruff and Ready" "The Huckleberry Hound Show" and "The Flintstones" until he retired in 1969. The following is what is presumed to be his stuff while working with the Tex Avery unit. Clinton's animation style was very loose and exaggerated, almost reminiscing the Lichty style used by Rod Scribner at WB. Cartoons: Northwest Hounded Police The Cat that Hated People Little Rural Riding Hood What Priced Fleadom Cock-a-Doodle Dog Wild and Woolfy King Sized Canary Wags To Riches Slap Happy Lion Hound Hunters The Cuckoo Clock Bad Luck Blackie Rock-a-Bye Bear The Chump Champ Music: Tea for Two and St. Louis Blues by Art Tatum