history of animation disks for Imprint magazine. People who
entered the animation business in the recent past have lived
totally within a digital world. But before computers, animation
had its own set of very specific hardware, developed from the
1910s onward to facilitate the creation of cartoons. There were
studios with their own peg standards as well as Acme pegs (which
dominated the California business) and Oxberry pegs (which
dominated in New York). There was even another standard, not
mentioned in the article, that came from the U.S. Signal Corps
from World War II and made it into the animation industry as war
surplus. The picture above is a Fleischer set-up. Note the
goose-neck lamp for top lighting. Fleischer used top pegs, where
Disney used bottom pegs. There's a wire coil at the top right to
hold pencils and brushes and the holder on the left for ink and
paint. The disk rotates on rubber rollers (pictured in the
article). As the Fleischers were inventors and very mechanically
minded, they put a lot