Animator and technical genius Ubbe Ert Iwwerks (also known as Ub Iwerks), passes away at age 70 in Burbank, California. First meeting Walt Disney in 1919, Iwerks contributed to many of the early Mickey Mouse classics like Plane Crazy, Steamboat Willie, and Gallopin' Gaucho. He also invented the first multiplane camera in 1933, a device that used four layers of flat artwork before a horizontal camera to give animation depth. Iwerks built the device out of parts from an old Chevrolet automobile.
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