The Walt Disney Firm is celebrating its a hundredth anniversary in 2023, and in that point, lots of people have labored for the Home of Mouse. Nonetheless, no one had labored for Disney fairly so long as Burny Mattinson. 2023 marked his seventieth yr with the corporate. He’s really the definition of a Disney Legend. Sadly for followers of Walt Disney Animation, right now Disney has reported that Mattinson handed away on the age of 87 after a brief sickness.
On June 4 of this yr, Burny Mattison would have obtained an award for his 70 years of service to the Walt Disney Firm, the primary particular person to ever obtain such an award as a result of no one had labored for the corporate practically as lengthy. He began working within the mailroom at Disney earlier than turning into an assistant animator beneath Marc Davis, one of many well-known 9 Outdated Males. He labored on Sleepy Magnificence and was nonetheless working as a narrative marketing consultant up till his sickness.
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