This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics
This was a hard review for me to write because I didn’t know how to start it. I’ll be honest I didn’t know much about Floyd Norman until a few years ago when it came out about him being let go from Disney yet he still came to work. My first thing that came into my head was how come I didn’t know about this black person who worked at Disney Animation when Walt Disney was alive? Why am I just finding out about him now? Fast forward and now I’m watching a documentary about his career and life. Through the 94 minutes, I learned about a humble artist who was a trailblazer that is not celebrated as much as he should be but also a man that doesn’t wish to make a big deal about himself and his place in history.Continue Reading …