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Animator. Storyman. Troublemaker. At 80 years old, see how Disney Legend Floyd Norman, the first African-American animat | dG1fbVY3VFNNaFQ4LVU

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00:01Look for the bare necessities.

00:04People have often asked me,

00:05how did it feel about being the first African-American at Disney?

00:08Well, I wasn't even aware that I was an African-American.

00:11I was another artist looking for a job.

00:14There's always rumors of black people at Disney.

00:17It's always like, no, I think there is one.

00:20I was told as a kid, you know,

00:22hey kid, you can't get a job at the Disney studio.

00:24You know, they don't hire blacks.

00:26I don't know, people just assume that.

00:28And because I want to do it, I just went there and applied for a job, and I got it.

00:31And when they told me I'm going to be working on the Jungle Book,

00:33I thought, how am I going to do this?

00:35Now he's upstairs with Walt Disney,

00:37and they're asking him to do the hardest thing of all,

00:39which is be funny.

00:40Come on, Floyd, be funny.

00:42But Floyd made it possible for others to say,

00:44well, he can do it, I can do it.

00:45Now there's enough of us for us to be mad at each other.

00:48Hey, there you go.

00:49There's a black guy that I don't like.

00:52I've been an animator, layout artist, storyboard artist, writer.

00:56There's no one who had worked with Walt Disney

00:59and then gone to publications and then ended up at Pixar.

01:03Every time there's a great moment in animation,

01:05look around, there's Floyd Norman.

01:07He's like the Forrest Gump of animation.

01:09The kid's good.

01:10He's only 79 years old.

01:12He's a very introverted, very humble on the outside guy.

01:15But the truth is he's iconoclastic and he's a troublemaker.

01:19I remember on Mulan he'd put out a book directed at the money-grubbing aspect of our industry.

01:25And some people got very upset by them.

01:27That guy's a bad guy.

01:28He's a troublemaker.

01:29Don't hire him.

01:32Hi there!

01:33Floyd says to us all, we could do better.

01:36That's part of what makes him a legend.

01:38Disney has been a part of his life forever.

01:40And when he turned 65, Disney told him, you're out of here.

01:43I've never seen him more devastated in his life.

01:46He was in his prime.

01:48They should not have let him go.

01:50Perfect.

01:51We tell our race has been an issue.

01:52Now ageism is a real big issue.

01:55He told me when I was a little kid, I would never retire.

01:57He's the biggest kid I know.

01:58He loves the studio.

01:59That's what has kept him young.

02:01If you love that and that's your life, you're not going to be stopped.

02:04The old guys have been beaten down.

02:06So they needed somebody that's maybe retired who can go in and raise hell.

02:11Well if you could press me wide

02:13All the past you've left behind

02:17Who wants the life you lived

02:20One frame at a time

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer

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