Finding out who animated a particular scene is not easy. The Disney studio kept records, but most other studios did not. Screen credits are notoriously unreliable. There are instances of credited animators who did not work on a film. There are also lots of films where animators worked uncredited, either because the studio did not credit anyone or because the studio would only credit a few artists.

Some of the information below comes from conversations with Al Eugster and some comes from his own work records. I'm sure that the Disney Archives has more information about scenes Al animated during his time at the studio. If anyone has access to those records, I would appreciate getting the information.

Strike Up the Band (1930)
Al animated the entire cartoon by himself. He told me that he animated for 42 straight hours in order to hit the deadline and finish the film, and that it took him weeks to recover from the overtime.

Stopping the Show (1932)
Al animated Betty Boop doing her imitations of Maurice Chevalier and Fanny Brice.

Hawaiian Holiday (1937)
Al animated Donald Duck doing the hula at the start of the film. Al was generally assigned to Donald Duck while working on Disney shorts, so the odds are good that he did the Donald footage in any Disney short in his filmography.

Clock Cleaners (1937)
Al animated the entire sequence of Donald Duck cleaning and fighting the mainspring. He also animated the last shot of the film with Mickey, Donald and Goofy doing the shimmy.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Al started work on this film on April 12, 1937. Most of Al's footage was on the bed building sequence, which was cut from the film. I believe that he only has two shots left in the film: the first appearance of the dwarfs in the film and a shot towards the end when birds are pulling on Dopey's cloak.

Gulliver's Travel's (1939)
Al animated the character of Gabby. Once scene I know he did is the one where King Little and Gabby are covered by rocks on King Little's balcony.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)
Al animated Smack, Swat and Mr. Beetle, the villains of the film. The scene where Swat and Smack dance to show Mr. Beetle how Hoppity and Honey behaved in the nightclub is Al's. He told me that Dave Fleischer told him to add inbetweens to the shot to slow it down and make it more sensual. Al also animated the scene where Mr. Beetle's bed, a make-up compact, closes on him.

When G.I. Johnny Comes Home (1945)
During World War II, Al was in the Signal Corps in New York. He was able to freelance work during evenings and weekends. From May through October of 1944, he did layouts and animation on this cartoon for Famous Studios. I don't know if the following scene numbers accurately reflect the scenes in the final cartoon or not. The first number represents the scene number, the second the amount of footage and the third the description of the action. The footage number in front of the decimal point is the number of feet (with 16 frames per foot). The number after the decimal point is the number of frames. 25.14 is 25 feet and 14 frames, or 414 frames. At 24 frames per second, that's seventeen and a quarter seconds.
1 - 25.14 - Peace
2 - 9.12 - Map Boat
3 - 11.8 - Statue of Liberty
4 - 27.8 - Boats in. G.I.'s off.
5 - 7.14 - Close Up Draft Board
6 - 21.14 - Long Shot Draft Board
7 - 13.2 - Jeep
8 - 9.0 - Close Up Map. Girls' Names.
9 - 31.14 - Motorcycle
10 - 14.2 - Gas Station
11 - 10.14 - Haircut, Shine, Pressing
12 - 15.5 - Baby Carriage Factory
13 - 5.11 - Carriages Out
14 - 21.13 - Storks

House Tricks (1945)
Al worked on this cartoon freelance from February until April of 1945.
60 - 16.8 - Popeye zips in. Olive enters. Reaches over to kiss Popeye.
61 - 27.6 - Popeye closes door. House collapses.

The Enchanted Square (1946)
Al started work on this cartoon in October of 1945. He animated the character of Giuseppe, but I don't know if he did all scenes for this character.

Al was the sole animator on the Schoolhouse Rocks he did for Kim and Gifford with one exception. I worked with him on "Gravity." Scenes I remember animating are Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple and a scene of a girl in a poodle skirt leaving a car. I only worked on the film for 6 days.

All of Al's work for the TV series Drawing Power was done solo.

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