Anybody ever wonder what happened to...Tom Palmer??

[Sogturtle]

Anyone ever curious what happened to Tom Palmer immediately after his lack of humor got him fired from the Schlesinger studio??? I'm referring to the gap in time between Schlesinger and his arrival at Van Buren...

[Pietro]

After leaving Schlesinger's in 1933, Palmer briefly returned to Disney, but once Burt Gillett suggested Palmer to Van Beuren, he was lured to Van Beuren.

-Pietro:D

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Pietro Shakarian
After leaving Schlesinger's in 1933, Palmer briefly returned to Disney, but once Burt Gillett suggested Palmer to Van Beuren, he was lured to Van Beuren.

-Pietro:D

Excellent Pietro! What is comical though is that on his return to Walt's place Palmer only animated on one SINGLE cartoon!!! (This would imply he was only there a matter of weeks). And what's more it happened to be on Gillett's very, very last D*sn*y cartoon (till Gillett's own brief return years later). In point of fact Burt Gillett's first Van Beuren cartoon was released in June 1934 (while his last D*sn*y toons stretched across the summer with the last released at the very end of Sept.). Sooooo we can be pretty sure that both men actually left Walt's near the beginning of '34.

I've never found any other California studio where Palmer's name turns up in this period, which leads me to believe that he very likely was in New York already probably animating at Van Beuren's. Gillett had first fired the previous director (George Stallings) then promoted Jim Tyer and Ted Eshbaugh to directors (plus hired Ted Eshbaugh) and then either demoted or fired all three men!! While the studio was reeling under all this he made Tom Palmer a director, and hired Shamus Culhane to take over for the three former directors... until he tried to kill Shamus of course.