As a kid I wasn’t a big fan of Terrytoons. Today I can appreciate them for the animation artistry of Jim Tyer. A check of the IMDB shows that in 1935 Tyer was briefly at Disney, long enough to work on only two cartoons. One of them was “Music Land”, and the most amazing thing about this cartoon today is that Disney itself has made it available for embedding.
Just as Carl Barks decided that the confines of the Disney studio, where he was a layout and story man, were not for him, Tyer left Walt for other, less restrictive, opportunities. Barks drew comic books, and so did Tyer, but unlike Carl it was a side job in addition to his day job as an animator.
Tyer spent years working for Paramount’s Famous Studios and Paul Terry’s Terrytoons, both based in New York. Much of Tyer’s work can be seen in cartoons that have fallen into the public domain, and many are available for viewing on a YouTube Terrytoons channel.