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- Birth nameDavid Dodd Hand
- David Hand was born on January 23, 1900 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Mickey Mouse Classic Shorts (1928). He was married to Josephine Hale Marks. He died on October 11, 1986 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
- SpouseJosephine Hale Marks(April 28, 1925 - ?) (2 children)
- ChildrenDavid Hale HandJudith Hale Hand
- ParentsErnest T. HandMaria Dodd Hand
- All but four of Hand's "Animaland" cartoon shorts were thought to have been lost. An additional five short films were found by Burbank, California film archivist Ken Kramer, in an odd-lot sale of miscellanious reels. The animator's son, David Hale Hand, authorized the release of all 9 extant films onto home video.
- Hand began as animator on the 'Out of the Inkwell' cartoons in the 1920s. He joined Disney studio 1930.
- In Britain from 1945 to 1950, setting up a short-lived cartoon unit, Gaumont British Animation at Moor Hall, for the Rank Organisation.
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