If you were asked to name the director of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, could you do it? How about Bambi, Pinocchio, or Cinderella? We know and love directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, and Alfred Hitchcock, but even Disney fans know very little about the directors of their favorite classic animated films. The job itself is mysterious. What does a director actually do? The name evokes someone wearing a baseball cap, leaning back from the camera to yell, ''Cut!''through their megaphone. How do you do that in animation? Can you tell an animated character, ''Once more, with feeling''? In fact, when the very first animated films appeared, there were no directors. With no actors, sets, costumes, or sound, what appeared on-screen was simply decided and drawn by one or two artists, with little need for planning. But as Walt Disney refined and improved the quality of the films he made, his staff grew to include hundreds of specialised artists, all of whom needed to kn
