![]() ![]() Soon he was laid off and his career at Disney was at an end. When he returned after the strike was settled, his office was moved to an ex-broomcloset and he was left without assignments. Noble joined the Disney animators' strike in 1941 it lasted five weeks and became bitter. For Dumbo, he did color coordination and character design, including work on the pink elephant sequence. Noble also did story development for the Dance of the Hours in that film. This was followed by background work on other Disney features, notably the Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first feature-length film Noble worked on. DISNEY BACKGROUNDS FULLAt that time the Disney backgrounds were required to be done in transparent watercolor wash, which was technically difficult because correcting a mistake was usually impossible, requiring a full new attempt. Noble was put to work on backgrounds for the Silly Symphonies cartoon series. Having to leave Chouinard for financial reasons, he ended up doing design work for a department store.Ī Disney scout recruited him around 1934, and he decided to accept the job since it paid $10 per month more than the department store did. In the early 1930s he attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and while there the Institute displayed his works in its first one-man show of watercolors. He spent much of his childhood in New Mexico and Southern California. ![]() Maurice Noble was born in Spooner Township, Minnesota. ![]()
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