Norma Swank

Norma Mae Swank was an inker and painter who enjoyed a 28-year career at Disney who also provided the voice of Chip for several Chip and Dale cartoon shorts throughout the 1940s and 50s.
Born in Alaska, Swank grew up in Washington. After graduating from school, she looked for work in California. In Glendale, she worked in various jobs including a traffic office before being hired at Disney Animation's Ink & Paint Department in 1943. She worked on films such as The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book.
Working in the Burbank Studios also offered opportunities beyond painting and checking responsibilities within the ink department. Swank began doing voice work for several features. Swank later began doing voiceover for Chip in tandem with in-house sound effects artist Jimmy MacDonald.
Later at Disney, Norma moved into one of the more exacting roles within animation such as "Final Checking," which was much "more demanding" Norma noted. "We had to know everything about 'camera', and we had to go through each scene as if we were shooting in camera." Swank later left the studio in 1971 and moved to Boston with her second husband, Byron, before settling down in Half Moon Bay, CA.
She passed away in April of 2022.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1943	Private Pluto 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1944	The Three Caballeros 	Ink-and-paint artist (uncredited)
1946	Make Mine Music 	Ink and paint (uncredited)Voice: Angry Woman in Crowd (segment "Casey at the Bat")
1946	Song of the South 	Ink and paint artist (uncredited)
1948	Melody Time 	Inker and painter (uncredited)
1948	So Dear to My Heart 	Final checker (uncredited)
1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 	Final check (uncredited)
1950	Cinderella 	Final check (uncredited)Voice: Mice, Additional Voices (uncredited)
1951	Corn Chips 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1951	Test Pilot Donald 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1951	Alice in Wonderland 	Final check (uncredited)
1952	Teachers are People 	Voice: Schoolchild (uncredited)
1952	Pluto's Christmas Tree 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1953	Working for Peanuts 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1953	Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom 	Singer (uncredited)
1953	Peter Pan 	Final checker (uncredited)
1954	The Lone Chipmunks 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1954	Dragon Around 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1955	"From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen"	Voice: singing crow (uncredited)
1955	Up a Tree 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1955	Lady and the Tramp 	Final checker (uncredited)
1956	Chips Ahoy 	Voice: Chip (uncredited)
1959	Sleeping Beauty 	Final checker (uncredited)
1961	Aquamania 	Xerox (uncredited)
1962	A Symposium on Popular Songs 	Xerox (uncredited)
1963	The Sword in the Stone 	Xerox check/inking (uncredited)
1967	Scrooge McDuck and Money 	Xerox (uncredited)
1967	The Jungle Book 	Xerox check/inking (uncredited)
1970	The Aristocats 	Xerographer (uncredited)
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	Xerox (uncredited)
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 	Xerox check/inking (uncredited): "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree""Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"
==Role==
Tve66480-19490603-1183.jpg|Chip(1943-1960)
==Gallery==
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Norma Swank 3.jpg|Swank checking cels and artwork for The Jungle Book.
==Trivia==
*Aside from providing voiceover in Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom in English, she performed the same parts in the Portuguese release.
==External links==
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*Farewell to the Woman Behind Walt Disney's Chip
*CartoonBrew - RIP Norma Swank-Haviland
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