David Gerstein is an independent animation and comics historian,
writer, and editor working extensively with The Walt Disney Company
and its licensees. His published work includes Mickey and the Gang:
Classic Stories in Verse, Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don
Rosa Library, the Eisner Award–winning Floyd Gottfredson Library of
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, and numerous comic book titles.
Gerstein has worked with Disney in efforts to locate lost Oswald
the Lucky Rabbit and Laugh-O-gram shorts and to preserve the Mickey
Mouse newspaper strip. He has also contributed to vintage cartoon
home video and streaming programs for Thunderbean Animation,
Cartoons On Film, and others.
J. B. Kaufman is an author and film historian who has published and
lectured extensively on Disney animation, American silent film
history, and related topics. His books include The Fairest One of
All: The Making of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
South of the Border with Disney, and Pinocchio: The Making of the
Disney Epic. He is also coauthor, with Russell Merritt, of Walt
Disney’s Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon
Series and the award-winning Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films
of Walt Disney. In addition, Kaufman has presented programs at
festivals, including the TCM Classic Film Festival and San
Francisco Silent Film Festival. He holds forth online at
jbkaufman.com.
Daniel Kothenschulte is an author, curator, and lecturer on film
and art history, and a lover of animation since he first saw The
Jungle Book at the age of three. As a film journalist, he is
responsible for the film section in the German national daily
newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau and a regular contributor to WDR
Television. He has taught at various universities, including
Städelschule in Frankfurt; the University of Applied Sciences and
Arts, Dortmund; and the University of Television and Film Munich.
He is the author of Hollywood in the ’30s and The Walt Disney Film
Archives.
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