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Iwerks, U B
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originally Ubbe Iwwerks
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| Animated-cartoon director, born in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. The animator who put life into Walt Disney's sketches of Mickey Mouse, he began as an apprentice to the Union Bank Note Company (1916). In 1920, in partnership, he set up the Disney–Iwerks Studio, and produced Laugh-O-Gram cartoons, followed by Alice in Cartoonland (1923). Iwerks joined Disney in California to animate Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1924), then animated the first film to star Mickey Mouse, Plane Crazy (1928). He won Oscars in 1959 and 1964 for his technical achievements. He also developed xerographic animation for The 101 Dalmatians (1961), and directed special effects for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). |
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