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James Algar was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He received the Disney Legends award in 1998. He was born in Modesto, California and died in Carmel, California.

Gaëtan Brizzi is a film animator and director.

Paul Brizzi is a film animator, director and producer.

Francis Glebas is a writer, director, storyboard artist, and teacher. His most recent film work isSpace Chimps where he worked in storyboarding and visual development. This film has recently wrapped up production in Canada and is now in post-production.

Eric Goldberg is an American animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Goldberg was raised in Levittown, Pennsylvania and moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey as a child, where he attended Cherry Hill High School East. Goldberg later studied at Pratt... Institute, where he majored in illustration. He first entered the industry in the mid-1970s working on Raggedy Ann and Andy for the Richard Williams studio, eventually moving to Williams' London studio and rising through the ranks from assistant to director. During the 1980s, Goldberg started his own London-based studio, Pizazz Pictures, to produce television commercials. Later, Goldberg closed his studio to work at Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, California, to work on the film, Aladdin, where he became the lead animator on the character Genie, and later the lead animator on Phil in Hercules . Goldberg also was the co-director of Disney's 1995 feature Pocahontas. During his time as the lead animator for the Genie, he also provided the majority of the original animation for MC Skat Kat's "Big Time" music video, which was finished in 1992 but left unaired.
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Don Hahn is an American film producer who has produced some of the most successful Walt Disney animated films of the past 20 years. He currently owns his own film production company called Stone Circle Pictures. Hahn was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a Lutheran minister. When Hahn was 3,... his family moved to Bellflower, California where he went to school and shot his first animated shorts in the high school film club. His family then moved to Burbank, California when he was a teenager. He graduated from North Hollywood High School where he was drum major of the marching band, and went on to study music at Los Angeles Valley College where he was also drum major of the marching band. At California State University Northridge he majored in Music and minored in graphic and fine art. Hahn was a percussionist in the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked as a drum head tester for Remo Inc. and taught music at Notre Dame High School to put himself through college. He began his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director on The Fox and the Hound.
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