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Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: Floyd Norman papers
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 200
Physical Description:
3.7 Linear Feet
(1 flat box, 1 half-doc box, and 13 film reels (16-mm))
Date (inclusive): 1953-2015
Abstract: This collections contains assorted publications about animation written and illustrated by Norman, original storyboard sketches,
articles, online publicatins, photocopies, 16mm film reels, and digital photographes and audio files.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Language of Material:
English
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The collection is open for research.
Gift of Floyd Norman, 2019.
The collection is arranged in two series. Each series is arranged chronologically by date range with the exception of born-digital
objects. Large-format materials are arranged physically by size and shape in an oversize flat box.
Floyd E. Norman (b. 6/22/1935) is the first African American cartoon animator for Disney Studios. He was born in Santa Barbara,
California in 1935 and attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena until he was hired by Walt Disney Productions
as an animator in 1956.
Norman founded Vignette Films, Inc. in 1966, one of the first studios to make animated films about Black history. During his
career, Norman also worked for Hanna-Barbera, Film Roman, Ruby-Spears Productions, and Pixar. His animation work includes
comic strips, illustrated children's books, advertisements, storyboards, and animated motion pictures.
Norman is also a script writer, columnist, and blogger. He has contributed to numerous films for various production companies
and works occasionally as a freelance consultant.
[Identification of Item], Floyd Norman papers, CEMA 200. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Published titles written by Floyd Norman were removed and cataloged separately:
What Happen to the Magic Kingdom: How the Grinch Stole Disney (2012);
The Flip Side to the Art of Animation: Faster! Cheaper! (1992);
Son of Faster Cheaper: A Sharp Look Inside the Animation Business (2015)
This collection contains Floyd Norman's original, hand-drawn illustrations and storyboards, publications written and illustrated
by Norman, newspaper clippings and magazine articles about Norman, photo copies of his works, and thirteen 16 millimeter film
reels that include Norman's own home movies and several live-action and animated short films, and born-digital content. The
Floyd Norman papers were established in 2019.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.