Jackson, Wilfred (1906-1988) - As one of
Walt Disney's earliest animators, Wilfred
Jackson, familiar with the metronome because
his mother was a music teacher, suggested using
that instrument to aid in the synchronization of
sound to the action in "Steamboat Willie" in 1928.
He later went on to direct cartoons and
features (he was a sequence director on eleven
of them, from "Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs" to "Lady and the Tramp"), and eventually
do the same for animated episodes of the
anthology television series.
