Bill Cottrell: I started on February 14, 1929, over at the old studio on Hyperion Avenue. I applied for a job as an artist and started in the usual procedure of going through painting and inking and on the camera, cutting, and foreign versions and one thing after another. I wasn’t too good an artist, so I didn’t last at that. Ultimately, I got in the Story Department and I was in there up until about 1952. I took a leave of absence for about a year and I went to work at Paramount, where I was a writer. Then I came back to the Studio and have been with the Studio ever since.
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