Charles Mintz, every mention

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• ▶ 30:16 David Rosenthal And then in 1927, Winkler's relatively new husband, Charles Mintz, who actually got his start working for her in the business.
• ▶ 31:54 David Rosenthal That's a big hit for Universal, a big hit for Winkler and Mintz, and a big hit for the Disney Brothers cartoon studio.
• ▶ 35:25 David Rosenthal So, Mintz, the husband of Winkler back in New York,
• ▶ 36:23 David Rosenthal As a couple to New York, where one of the items on the agenda is for Walt to go meet with Mintz and ask for a raise in the amount that the studio is getting paid per Oswald Short.
• ▶ 36:37 David Rosenthal So Walt sits down with Mintz and Mintz is like, well, I don't know about paying you more.
• ▶ 37:13 David Rosenthal Yeah, I think Mintz had basically calculated, okay, if Walt takes this,
• ▶ 37:31 Ben Gilbert And Mintz has an ace in the hole.
• ▶ 37:46 David Rosenthal Yeah, only Ub and, and I think maybe two or three other animators refused to sign these secret deals with Mintz and stayed loyal to, to Walt and to Roy.
• ▶ 40:16 David Rosenthal Not really just nothing, they actually have less than nothing, because Mintz, ever the, uh, well really just kind of weasel is the right word.
• ▶ 40:26 David Rosenthal He makes Walt and Walt Disney Studios finish out the current Oswald contract, which still had a few cartoons left to animate on it, and pay all of the animators who had all betrayed him, and were all about to defect,
• ▶ 40:44 David Rosenthal Mintz is like, no, no, you've got a contract.
• ▶ 54:46 David Rosenthal Was basically plotting to do the exact same thing as mints to Disney.
• ▶ 55:34 David Rosenthal It's the exact same thing that Mintz did to Disney last time.