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Ito remained at Hanna-Barbera for the next fourteen years, where he worked on layouts and backgrounds for such series as The Flintstones and The Yogi Bear Show, and designed characters like the title characters from Hong Kong Phooey and Goober and the Ghost Chasers. Ito continues to draw and speak to audiences about his career at the leading ...
- Hanna-Barbera
Willie Ito; Jack Kirby; Harvey Kurtzman; Winsor McCay; Alex...
- Iwao Takamoto
Biography. Iwao Takamoto first learned animation skills...
- Alex Toth
Biography. Although his name may not be familiar to children...
- Hanna-Barbera
Mar 17, 2023 · Suspended Animation #415. Willie Ito was born in 1934 in San Francisco and said that seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a movie theater when he was five years old inspired his love of animation. “I saw those dwarfs marching across that log bridge, and I was hooked. I knew I wanted cartooning to be my life’s work,” recalled Ito.
Willie Ito grew up in San Francisco (with a two-and-a-half year residency at a World War II internment camp), but when he finished high school Mr. Ito headed for Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles to pursue his passion for drawing. However, his art education was cut short when he found himself hired by Walt Disney Productions to work on ...
Willie Ito (born July 17, 1934) [1] is an American retired animator. He worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios in the 1950s, moved to Warner Bros. Cartoons and Hanna-Barbera Productions as a character designer, and later returned to Disney.
Oct 4, 2019 · Willie Ito, 85, wanted to be an animator from the moment he first saw Snow White in theaters as a young boy. "I remember the seven little men walking across the screen, singing, 'Heigh-ho, heigh ...
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Jan 25, 2024 · “A Visit with Willie Ito” takes place from 10–11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix. He’ll also deliver an artist's talk later in the day at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix. Ito gave students a firsthand account of Hollywood history, dating back to the 1950s.
The Ito family was bound for incarceration at Topaz, deep in the Utah desert. It was the autumn of 1942. Willie Ito was 8 years old. Some 150 miles south of Salt Lake City, the Topaz camp was home to over 8,000 American citizens. They lived in barracks that were usually uninsulated and heated by coal stoves. Snow fell as early as October.
