Webb Smith

Webb Smith

Screenwriter. Born 18 January 1887 in West Liberty, Iowa, USA. Died 16 March 1951.

ScreenwriterAmerican
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Born
18 January 1887, West Liberty, Iowa, USA
Died
16 March 1951
Active
1938–1941

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Biography

Webb Smith was an American writer and story man who worked at Walt Disney Studios from the early 1930s. He contributed to numerous animated shorts and features, including story work on Three Little Pigs (1933), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Pinocchio (1940).

Smith is credited with developing the modern storyboard process at Disney, in which sequential sketches were pinned to boards to visualise narrative flow. He later worked on Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Saludos Amigos (1942) before leaving the studio in 1942.

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