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's first hire, and from 1924 to 1928, he worked as an animator for the

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and

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shorts. In 1928, Hamilton and several other animators left the Walt Disney Studio to work at Winkler Pictures' new animation studio with the help of Charles Mintz. A year later, Hamilton briefly transferred to Walter Lantz’s new studio before he helped fellow animators Hugh Harman and

Rudolf Ising Rudolf Carl Ising (August 7, 1903 – July 18, 1992) was an American animator best known for collaborating with Hugh Harman to establish the Warner Bros. and MGM Cartoon studios during the early years of the golden age of American animation. I ...

establish their own animation studio. He was one of the primary animators for the

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and

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cartoons. From 1929 to 1934, he animated the

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character in the

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studio. He was one of the few animators who remained with

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after Harman and Ising left in 1933. In Schlesinger's studio, he animated

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, Beans the Cat, and Porky Pig. He then worked as a freelance animator until 1940. Hamilton died in 1951 of a heart attack.

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