Willie Ito was a wide-eyed little boy when he first saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsin technicolor at his neighborhood movie theater in San Francisco.
That’s the moment he realized he wanted to be an animator.
But Willie’s dreams were interrupted in 1942, when his family was sent to a Japanese American internment camp in Topaz, Utah. He was eight years old at the time.
At 85, Willie came to StoryCorps with his son, Vince, to remember.
Originally aired October 4th, 2019, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
