In Passing....
Milt Neal. Animator and educator Milt Neal has died at the age of 83, in his home town of Wayne, New Jersey. A graduate of Pratt Institute in the 1930s, Neal worked at Disney for several years in the 1940s, where he animated on such films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941) and the short war film Der Fuehrer's Face (1943). In The Reluctant Dragon, a 1941 film that takes viewers behind the scenes at Walt Disney Studios, Neal is depicted in a caricature sequence during the opening credits. He is also interviewed in the recent documentary, Cartoons Go To War. One accomplishment that Neal was most proud of was his design work on marionettes and puppets for The Howdy Doody Show, a television series that aired on NBC through the 1960s. In the 1970s and `80s, Neal taught animation at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey. "Milt was one of the reasons that we started animation," said Joe Kubert, founder of the school which now has five animation instructors. He added, "as a result of Milt's efforts, we have somewhere between 99 and 100 percent employment of our graduates." Neal also made several independent films, the most recent of which--about Brazilian soccer player Pele--was in progress when he died.
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