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. After the Disney strike of 1941, Pomerance and David Hilberman left Disney and started their own animation show studio, TEMPO.

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accused Pomerance, along with Herbert Sorrell and David Hilberman, of being a communist in an interview with chief investigator Robert E. Stripling before the

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, although Disney said in the interview that "No one has any way of proving" this. On 5 February 1952, Pomerance appeared before the HUAC. He refused to answer whether he had been a member of the Communist Party by taking the 5th Amendment. He was born in

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, the first-born son of Jewish immigrants Harry Pomerance and Esther Perlstein, both from Russia. He died in

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in 1995.''Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012''

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