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‘Floyd Norman: An Animated Life’

The continuing saga of Disney’s first African-American employee, a Santa Barbara native.

‘Floyd Norman: An Animated Life’

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Not only was Floyd Norman the first African-American employee at Disney in an era of outright segregation, this Santa Barbara-raised artist and writer also worked intimately with Walt Disney, the visionaries at Pixar, and with all of the big time animation wizards of the past century. This doc tells his saga, which is rife with turmoil, in vivid detail.