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Discover, too, the unique construction of the lot, and clever efforts to conceal precious hand-drawn animation cels from the sun.

“They looked more like animation cels — distinctly European animation, filtered through the late 1960s — than sketchy cartoons.”

Many of his films are animations made from gritty charcoal drawings on ordinary sheets of paper, rather than slick, colorful, multiple cels of transparent plastic.

In October, “The Animation Academy” will explore the world of animation and storytelling, from hand-drawn cels and 3D zoetropes to the latest in CGI.

The characters in the showdown were as colorful as any drawn on the studio's animation cels: union activists, gangsters, communists and anti-communists, and, not least, Walt Disney himself, who, dropping his avuncular persona, played a long game of political hardball and slow-burn payback.