Reg Hartt

Johan Fichte, father of our education system, said, “It is impossible to erase the disobedience gene in people who have learned to think for them self.” “A great artist lets himself go. He is natural. He swims easily in the stream of his own temperament. He listens to himself, he respects himself. He has a deeper fund of strength to draw from than that arising from rational and logical knowledge. “The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper to shake the complacent killers of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and the preceptor of his time….In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution – the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace, quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the soul of men.”—Dr. Norman Bethune. The only sensible way to regard life is that it is a privilege we are willing to pay for.

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Reg Hartt Presents Grim Natwick, the Creator of Betty Boop for Max Fleischer and principal animation artist on the character of Snow White for Walt Disney

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August 16, 2022

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The Winter 1975 issue of FILM COMMENT Magazine was devoted to The Hollywood Cartoon.

It changed forever and for the better my perception of animated cartoons.

There, for the first time, I read articles on animation artists and directors Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, William Hanna, Joe Barbera, Shamus Culhane and the great Grim Natwick.

Grim Natwick? Who he?

Grim was the animator who whipped up Betty Boop for the Max Fleischer Studio in 1930. Grim was regarded by his peers as the finest animation artist of the human female character and form. He was the principal artist on the character of Snow White for Walt Disney.

Grim was born August 16, 1890. Grim left us October 7, 1990.

These Toronto visits remain the only record of this pivotal animation artist. It is a pleasure to share them with you.–Reg Hartt

Reg Hartt presents Grim Natwick, The CineForum, Toronto 1980 (recorded by Craig Davison) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDAcJW66MkM&t=3s

Reg Hartt presents Grim Natwick, The CineForum, Toronto 1982 (Michael Gowling) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CEYYLr9tRU&t=124s

Grim Motion Picture Academy 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0AivWOg7bI&t=13s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Natwick