Entertainment Series 16: Tom Sito / Animating Golden Age of Disney / Who Framed Rodger Rabbit / Animation & Studio Styles

Tom Sito is an American animator, animation historian and teacher. He is a retired professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Animation Division. In 1998, Sito was included by Animation Magazine in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.

Tom Sito served three terms as President of the Hollywood Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE, the largest professional tradeunion for animation cartoonists in the world. He now holds the title of President-Emeritus. He was vice president of the International Animator's Society (ASIFA/Hollywood) He is a member of the Motion Picture Academy, the National Cartoonists Society and Hollywood Heritage.
His books "Drawing the Line: the Untold Story of Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson",from University Press of Kentucky and the anthology Jews in American Popular Culture (Praeger Publishing) and Timing for Animation( Focal/Elsevier Press) and Moving Innovation, A History of Computer Animation(MIT Press, 2013) are available in most popular book stores.

http://tomsito.com/bio.php

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