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Joshua Lawrence "Josh" Meador (March 12, 1911 - August 24, 1965) was an American animator, effects animator, special effects artist, and animation director for the Walt Disney studios.
Meador was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. His family later moved to Columbus, Mississippi in 1918. [1] He later studied at the Chicago Art Institute. There, a fellow alumnus told Meador he was traveling to California to be interviewed at Walt Disney Productions, and suggested for him to come along. At first, Meador refused as he wanted to do commercial art, but he was coerced into interviewing at Disney. [2] There, he was hired to work in their animation effects department, where he worked on numerous films such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, for which the studio won an Academy Award. Meador also created the animation effects for the 1956 MGM science-fiction film Forbidden Planet, [3] most notably the "Monster from the Id" that attacks the spaceship. Privately, Meador described himself as "first and foremost a painter", in which he painted more than 2,000 canvases and impressionistic landscape and seascape paintings. [1]
In August 1965, Meador suffered a heart attack and died at his residence in Casper, California. [4] He is buried at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi, [1] which was also his hometown. There is a historical marker at his childhood home. [5]
| Year | Title | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Animator | |
| 1940 | Pinocchio | Animator | |
| Fantasia | Animator - Segment " Toccata and Fugue in D Minor " / Animation Supervisor - Segment " Rite of Spring " / Special Animation Effects - Segment " Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria " | ||
| 1941 | The Reluctant Dragon | Special Effects | Credited and Known as Joshua L. Meador |
| Dumbo | Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| 1942 | Bambi | Animator | |
| 1943 | Saludos Amigos (Short) | Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| Victory Through Air Power (Documentary) | Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| 1945 | The Clock Watcher (Short) | Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| The Three Caballeros | Special Effects Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| Donald's Crime (Short) | Animator | ||
| Old Sequoia (Short) | Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| 1946 | Make Mine Music | Director | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| Song of the South | Effects Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| 1948 | Melody Time | Effects Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| Soup's On (Short) | Animator | ||
| 1949 | So Dear to My Heart | Effects Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| 1950 | Pluto and the Gopher (Short) | Effects Animator | |
| Cinderella | Effects Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| 1951 | Alice in Wonderland | Effects Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| Nature's Half Acre (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | ||
| 1952 | Water Birds (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| 1953 | Bear Country (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | |
| Peter Pan | Effects Animator | ||
| The Alaskan Eskimo (Documentary short) | Animator | ||
| Prowlers of the Everglades (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| The Living Desert (Documentary) | Animation | ||
| 1954 | The Vanishing Prairie (Documentary) | Animation Effects | |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Special Effects | Credited and Known as Josh Meador | |
| 1955 | Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier | Special Art Work | |
| The African Lion (Documentary) | Animation Effects | ||
| Men Against the Arctic (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | ||
| 1956 | Forbidden Planet | Special Effects: Through Courtesy of Walt Disney Productions | |
| Secrets of Life (Documentary) | Animation Effects | ||
| 1957 | Perri | Special Effects | |
| 1958 | 4 Artists Paint 1 Tree: A Walt Disney 'Adventure in Art' (Documentary short) | Himself - Artist | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| White Wilderness (Documentary) | Animation Effects | ||
| 1959 | Sleeping Beauty | Effects Animator | |
| Nature's Strangest Creatures (Short documentary) | Animation Effects | ||
| Donald in Mathmagic Land (Short) | Sequence Director | ||
| Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Animation Effects | ||
| Mysteries of the Deep (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | ||
| 1960 | Islands of the Sea (Documentary short) | Animation Effects | |
| Jungle Cat (Documentary) | Animation Effects | ||
| 1961 | The Absent-Minded Professor | Special Effects | |
| Donald and the Wheel (Short) | Effects Animator | ||
| Babes in Toyland | Animation Effects | ||
| 1964 | The Restless Sea (TV Movie Documentary) | Animator | |
| 1980 | Mickey Mouse Disco (Short) | Animator | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
| 2002 | Mickey's House of Villains (Video) | Animator - Segment " Donald Duck and the Gorilla " | Credited and Known as Josh Meador |
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Events in 1911 in animation.
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