Ernie Nordli

Ernest Nordli (June 15 1912 - April 22 1968) was an American animation designer and layout artist, most notably for Walt Disney Studios.

He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Norwegian immigrant Hans Magnus Nordli (1884-1975) and Hedvig Charlotte Esterblom (1888-1976) who was of Swedish heritage. He studied art at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts.

Nordli, nicknamed "Ernie", was a talented artist whose work had an appealing modern sensibility. He started at Disney in 1936 and served as an art director/layout artist on Dumbo and Fantasia, and worked on many of the studio's shorts through the mid-1940s, including such Donald Duck shorts as The Plastics Inventor and Donald's Double Trouble. He left Disney and in the 1950s became the layout artist for Chuck Jones, in the absence of Maurice Noble. He was the layout man on eight Jones shorts, including some memorable films like Broom-Stick Bunny and Rocket-bye Baby (both 1956). After his short stint with Jones, Nordli returned to Disney where he worked on Sleeping Beauty and One Hundred and One Dalmatians, on which he was a layout stylist. He played an important role in designing the background drawing style on Dalmatians.

Nordli

Nordli is a former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality encompassed the northern part of the present-day municipality of Lierne. The main church for the municipality was Nordli Church in the municipal center, Sandvika.

History

The municipality of Nordli established on 1 July 1915 when the old municipality of Lierne was split in two parts: Nordli and Sørli. The old municipality of Lierne was created on 1 January 1874 when it separated from Snåsa. Initially, Nordli had a population of 863. On 1 January 1964, Sørli and Nordli were reunited to once again form the municipality of Lierne. Prior to the merger, Nordli had a population of 1,147.

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