{"id":504859,"date":"2026-03-05T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504859\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:07:08","slug":"floyd-norman-to-attend-smithsonian-documentary-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504859\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Norman To Attend Smithsonian Documentary Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture will screen the documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/documentary-2\/floyd-norman-teaser-115732.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Norman: An Animated Life <\/a>on March 10 as part of its Through the African American Lens series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The event, presented in the museum\u2019s Oprah Winfrey Theater, is free and open to the public with registration available <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.si.edu\/nmaahc\/events\/019c9001-a68e-782c-f50c-56e78d3faf76?tg=019c9001-a693-b72e-ce9e-ca7990c48dbb\">here<\/a>. A rare East Coast conversation with Norman will follow the screening, offering audiences an opportunity to hear directly from one of American animation\u2019s most important figures of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey, Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016) chronicles Norman\u2019s groundbreaking, six-decade career in animation. In 1956, Norman became the first Black artist hired on a long-term basis at Walt Disney Studios. He contributed to features including Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, and The Jungle Book, later working at studios such as Hanna-Barbera and Pixar. The film blends archival material, interviews, and original animated sequences to present an affectionate and candid portrait of a singular creative voice.<\/p>\n<p>Following the screening, Norman will join museum curator LaCharles Ward for a discussion about his life and work, situating his story within a broader history of African American media arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture will screen the documentary Floyd Norman: An Animated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-504859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}