Morton Schindel

Who is Morton Schindel?

Morton Schindel is an American educator and producer, the founder of Weston Woods Studios, which specializes in adapting children's books into animated films. He named the company after the wooded area outside his home in Weston, Connecticut. The Weston Woods Studios business address was 143 Main Street in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Born and raised in Orange, New Jersey, Schindel went to the University of Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1939 from the Wharton School of Finance. In 1941 he married Ellen Bamberger; the couple had two daughters and one son. In 1948, he worked with Teaching Films Inc. After it declared bankruptcy, he opened his own company, Key Productions, but found film distributors uninterested in his ideas to create animated films of children’s picture books.