Education
Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California (1925), and attended John C. Fremont High School (1926 - 1928) there with Roy Williams.
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Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California (1925), and attended John C. Fremont High School (1926 - 1928) there with Roy Williams.
Both Fremont football players, they would later be hired by Walt Disney in 1930 to work at the Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue. Kinney began his long career in cartoons at the Walt Disney Studios in 1931 as an animator on several shorts, including Santa"s Workshop (released on December 10, 1932), The Band Concert (released on February 23, 1935), and Moose Hunters (released on April 17, 1937). He also served as director of most of the "package films" during the 1940s, including The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.
Toad.
In the mid-1950s, he supervised new animation used to tie some of the old shorts together for Disney"s television efforts. In 1957, after Kinney left Disney he started, with another Disney alum, Hal Adelquist, Kinney-Adelquist Productions, Incorporated., an independent animation studio. Among other work they provided animation for King Features Syndicate"s 1960 Popeye series.
Kinney also directed the 1959 Universal Postal Union film 1001 Arabian Nights, starring Mr.
Magoo.
In 1988, Kinney published a short memoir, Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters: An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disney"son Kinney died on February 9, 1992 in Glendale, California at the age of 82.