Harry Reeves
writer,animation_department
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1906-02-09
- Day of Death: 1971-02-01 ( 65 years old )
- Place of Birth: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
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- IMDB:nm0716206
While serving as a barker at a Broadway theater in 1929, Reeves met three animators from Pat Sullivan Cartoon Studios, producer of Felix the Cat shorts. He begged for a job. As a result, he met and worked under pioneer film animator Otto Messmer, creator of Felix. Messmer was a genius, but Sullivan was reluctant to allow him to make cartoons with voices.
In November 1930 Reeves severed ties with Sullivan and joined Disney, who was beginning to earn a favorable reputation, where he earned $60 a week as an “apprentice cartoon animator.” In 1934 he was an “animator and apprentice story writer.”