Talk:Tom Palmer (animator)

"Thomas Pipolo"
To the anonymous poster who said he's related to 1930s animator Tom Palmer, can you provide us with more details such as birth and death dates and what he did after leaving theatrical animation? Steelbeard1 (talk) 22:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

My name is Michelle Rubano. I am Anthony Pipolo (Tom Palmer)'s great great niece. My Mother is Alissa Rubano and Grandfather Edmund Rubano. He was the brother of my Grandfather (Edmund's) mother Josephine Pipilo. Im not sure why the anonymous poster who says hes related thought his name was Thomas Pipilo because it was definitely Anthony aka Tony Pipilo. I also have in my possession "Tom Palmer's" Sketchbooks and art tools. I was told by my grandfather he had to change his name to Tom Palmer in order to get a job without discrimination seeing as though he was a "foreigner" and needed a more "american name". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.8.152.161 (talk) 01:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, Michelle. Do you have any info about your great great uncle which you can contribute to this article?  There are obvious gaps as you know, such as what year he was born and when he died as well as his post-animation career. Steelbeard1 (talk) 02:41, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Steelbeard1 I dont know his birth/death date or what he did after his animation career but i can try to find out....perhaps my uncle might know...i will get back to you. -Michelle Rubano — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.37.163.200 (talk) 20:45, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Tom Palmer started off working on Mutt and Jeff
But why is his final credit in animation Gulliver's Travels? Is it because Max Fleischer soon fired him weeks on a month after because his cartoons were unfunny and that Max knew what Tom Palmer caused, like making cartoons over-budget at Leon's and Van Beuren's studios and he was trying to bring the "Disney" touch at Fleischer, I think he wasn't given a chance to make a star at Fleischer Studios? Why is Tom Palmer unfunny? Did he suffer from Down Syndrome and drank a lot of alcohol along with his altitude that made his cartoons look very bad? Did Tom Palmer work in any other animated company after Fleischer studios in 1939? I think he was later institutionalized after animating cartoons, that there may be episodes at Fleischer Studios too. Tom Palmer's animation at Fleischer was not doing well, while Shamus and Grim were making good animation at Fleischer Studios, I think Tom Palmer wanted to continue working in animation but at this point that the studios are less inclined to hire him. So, it was just possibly a case of simple Hollywood meritocracy: a director is only good as his last film. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.95.153.197 (talk) 10:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Did Tom Palmer started off in Bray Studios?
I think when Lantz came to Winkler and got credited there, Tom Palmer started showing up in the Oswald cartoons until 1930, so he may have worked on Dinky Doodle and Unnatural History and Pete the Pup before Lantz took off to the west because of Disney losing Oswald to Mintz, either that and Buddy from the Looney tunes bears very much resembles Dinky Doodle from the Walter Lantz Bray Studios to me. Lantz may have taken Palmer with him to the Winkler Studios after a failed stint with Pinto Covig to make sound cartoons before Steamboat Willie came out in 1928.