Jack Cutting

John Walter "Jack" Cutting was an American animator turned American international content supervisor for Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he worked for 46 years. He was considered among the frontrunners for synchronizing sound and image.
Cutting was born on January 9, 1908, in New York City and attended the Otis College of Art and Design. Among his peers at this time, included future Disney animators Wilfred Jackson and John Hench. After graduating, he was referred to the studio and began as an animator with the Silly Symphonies unit. Moving his way up in the company, Cutting became an assistant to director David Hand and soon became a director for shorts, like the 1939 remake of The Ugly Duckling which won the 1940 Oscar in Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
Prior to this feat, Cutting, following the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, convinced Walt and his brother, Roy O. Disney to let him work with dubbing the film for other countries. He soon became the head of the Foreign Department in 1938 and would supervise the translation and dubbing of all the companies films. He held this position until his retirement in 1975.
As the growing conflict in Europe grew, Cutting was one of a few employees not drafted into the armed forces and headed the company's Editorial Department for a year. Later, Walt asked him to take part in his goodwill tour of South America with a select group of employees. He worked with the film crew during the trip and the experience helped him enhance his job in translating the works that would become Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.
Cutting died on August 17, 1988, in North Hollywood, California.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1930	Autumn 	Animator - uncredited
1930	Summer 	Animator
1930	The Chain Gang 	Animator - uncredited
1930	The Picnic 	Animator - uncredited
1930	Winter 	Animator - uncredited
1930	Pioneer Days 	Animator - uncredited
1930	Playful Pan 	Animator - uncredited
1931	The Birthday Party 	Animator - uncredited
1931	Birds of a Feather 	Animator - uncredited
1931	The Fox Hunt 	Animator
1931	The Spider and the Fly 	Animator
1931	The Castaway 	Animator - uncredited
1931	The Busy Beavers 	Animator
1931	The China Plate 	Animator - uncredited
1931	Blue Rhythm 	Animator - uncredited
1931	Fishin' Around 	Animator - uncredited
1931	The Beach Party 	Animator - uncredited
1931	The Ugly Duckling 	Animator - uncredited
1932	Santa's Workshop 	Animator - uncredited
1932	Flowers and Trees 	Animator
1933	The Mail Pilot 	Animator - uncredited
1933	Father Noah's Ark 	Animator
1934	The Goddess of Spring 	Assistant animator
1935	Three Orphan Kittens 	Animator
1936	Three Little Wolves 	Assistant director - uncredited
1936	Three Blind Mouseketeers 	Assistant director - uncredited
1936	More Kittens 	Assistant director - uncredited
1938	Farmyard Symphony 	Director - uncredited
1939	The Ugly Duckling 	Director - uncredited
1939	Beach Picnic 	Assistant director - uncredited
1939	Officer Duck 	Assistant director - uncredited
1941	The Reluctant Dragon 	Director; Cartoon sequences - uncredited
1942	South of the Border with Disney	DirectorForeign supervisor - uncredited
1942	Saludos Amigos 	Foreign supervisor
1944	The Three Caballeros 	Brazilian and Spanish supervisor
==Gallery==
Silly Symphony unit 1929.jpg|L-R: Johnny Cannon, Cutting, Wilfred Jackson, Ub Iwerks, and Les Clark
Disney staff 1930 (2).jpg|L-R, Standing: Cannon, Jackson, Clark, Cutting.Kneeling: Iwerks, Walt Disney, Carl Stalling
Disney staff in January 1930 (2).jpg|Standing, from left: Clark, Jack King, Ben Sharpsteen, Cutting, Burt Gillett, Iwerks, Win Smith, Jackson, William Cottrell, Floyd GottfredsonKneeling, from left, Dick Lundy, Charles Byrne, Carlos Manriquez, Norman Ferguson, Merle Gilson, Chuck Couch, Stalling, Cannon, W. Disney
Disney staff 1931 (1).jpg|Standing from left: Edmond Seward, Frank Churchill, Otto Englander, Sharpsteen, Bert Lewis, Gilles "Frenchy" de Tremaudan, Clark, Rudy Zamora, Jackson, King, Tom Palmer, Cutting (behind Palmer), Cannon, Ferguson, Webb SmithSeated, from left: David Hand, Ted Sears, Lundy, Gillett, W. Disney
Disney staff 1931 (2).jpg|Standing from left: Smith, Seward, Englander, Zamora, Hand, Palmer, Cutting, W. Disney, Churchill, Cannon, SharpsteenSeated from left: King, Lundy, Sears, Ferguson, de Tremaudan, Jackson, Clark, Gillett, Lewis
Huemer1973.jpg|L-R: Dick Huemer with his Mousecar award in February 1973 at the Penthouse Club, Cutting, Bill Cottrell, and Clark
==Trivia==
*Cutting was one of the several employees who played polo with Walt which helped him to establish a close relation with his boss.
*Cutting was sent to "scout for merry-go-rounds in Europe" after Disney had the idea for a theme park which would have become "Mickey Mouse Park", A layout that would eventually blossom into Disneyland.
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