Directing

Samuel Armstrong

Born — Died

1893-02-05 — 1976-09-29

Place of birth

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Samuel Armstrong was an American animation director. Armstrong was an American animator and director best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios. He co-directed segments of the animated classics Fantasia (1940), including "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria," and Dumbo (1941). Armstrong's innovative contributions to animation helped shape the early successes of Disney's feature films.

Known for

Dumbo poster
7.0

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Dumbo

1941

Fantasia poster
7.3

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

Fantasia

1940

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor poster
8.0

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Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

1940

Blue Bayou poster
5.3

A meditative nighttime tour through a swamp to the title song. A stork walks slowly through the water, takes a brief flight, and lands again; we examine the ripples his movement makes. A second stork joins in on a second slow, sweeping flight.

Blue Bayou

1946

Walt Disney's A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios poster
8.5

This 1937 short film was made at the request of Walt's distributor RKO Radio Pictures to show executives and theater managers who were interested in seeing how Walt Disney made his films. The footage was shot in early July of 1937 and features a plethora of notable Walt Disney Legends at work on some of Walt's most beloved films. While this film was never intended to be viewed by the general public, during the following year another documentary film was produced for general release titled How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made that included some footage from this short.

Walt Disney's A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios

1937

How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made poster
NR

Behind the scenes of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, as well as a general look at the different departments involved in making a cartoon. This short is a re-edit of A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios. That short was intended for RKO executives, whereas this new expanded version was for the general public.

How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made

1939

Film credits

Behind the camera