Burny Mattinson

Burnett Anthony "Burny" Mattinson was an American artist and storyman at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Mattinson was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2008.https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/burny-mattinson/
Mattinson started at Disney working in the studio mail room as a "traffic boy" in 1953 where among his duties, he would hand deliver weekly checks of $300 to Walt Disney for his "walking around" money.
After a while, he was eventually promoted to be an animator in the animation department in the 1970s before becoming a story artist. During the 1980s, he directed and produced Mickey Mouse's comeback featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol and the full-length feature The Great Mouse Detective. Mattinson continued to work as a story an on features from the Disney Renaissance, such as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. His latest work was being head story artist for Winnie the Pooh.
In 2013, Mattinson celebrated 60 years with the Disney studio, and was honored with a surprise recognition by John Lasseter at the animation presentation at that year's D23 Expo. Before his death, he had been trying to pitch a traditionally-animated feature starring Mickey Mouse.
In 2018, he became the longest serving cast member of The Walt Disney Company.
In 2023, Mattinson made a posthumous appearance as himself in the short film Once Upon a Studio, celebrating the Disney Studio's 100th anniversary. The film is dedicated to his memory.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1955	Lady and the Tramp 	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1958	Paul Bunyan 	Character Animator (uncredited)
1959	Sleeping Beauty 	Character Animator (uncredited)
1960	Goliath II 	Character Animator (uncredited)
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1963	The Sword in the Stone 	Character Animator (uncredited)
1964	Mary Poppins 	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1966	Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 	Animator
1967	The Jungle Book 	Animator
1968	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day 	Animator
1970	The Aristocats 	Animator
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	Inbetweener (uncredited)
1973	Robin Hood 	Character Animator
1974	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! 	Animator
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Animator
1977	The Rescuers 	Title Artist
1981	The Fox and the Hound 	Story
1983	Mickey's Christmas Carol 	Story Adapted By/Producer/Director
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Story
1986	The Great Mouse Detective 	Story Adaptation/Producer/Co-director
1988	Oliver and Company 	Special Thanks
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Story
1992	Aladdin 	Story
1994	The Lion King 	Story
1995	Pocahontas 	Story
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	Story
1998	Mulan 	Story
1999	Tarzan 	Story
2002	Lilo & Stitch 	Additional Storyboard Artist (uncredited)
2011	Winnie the Pooh 	Senior Story Artist
2014	Big Hero 6 	Story Artist
2016	Zootopia 	Story Artist (uncredited)
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet 	Additional Story Artist
2022	Strange World 	Story Artist
2023	Once Upon a Studio 	In memory of
2023	Wish 	Story Artist (released posthumously)
==Gallery==
Burny mattinson interview 1984.JPG|Mattinson in The Making of Mickey's Christmas Carol.
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Burny Mattinson with Winnie the Pooh Doll.jpg
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Burny mattinson interview.JPG|Mattinson in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece.
Baer.jpg|L-R: Mattinson, Eric Goldberg, Mark Henn, and Dale Baer at the premiere of Winnie the Pooh.
Onceuponstudio-animationscreencaps.com-53.jpg|Burny Mattinson talking with Renika Williams in the short film, Once Upon a Studio.
==Trivia==
*His wife, Sylvia, worked in clean-up animation for the Disney studios during the 1970s and 1980s.
*When Mattinson saw a rough cut screening of Once Upon a Studio in November 2022, he truly believed the story to be perfect, and didn't want directors Dan Abraham and Trent Correy to change a single frame.https://www.instagram.com/sharktooth72/p/Czu_FiZOOc4
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