Danforth's first job in the professional film industry was as a sculptor and artist for clay-animation pioneer Art Clokey, who had previously produced the beloved children's series Gumby during the 1950s. Danforth was then hired by a company known as Project Unlimited and assisted a team of effects technicians on George Pal's celebrated 1960 feature-length Sci-Fi film, The Time Machine (1960). Working with two other animators and a team of artists and technicians at Project Unlimited, Danforth did the model-animation effects for the under-appreciated Jack the Giant Killer (1962), a 7th Voyage of Sinbad spin-off, which starred Sinbad's Kerwin Mathews and Torin Thatcher. Danforth continued at Project Unlimited to animate the dragon in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963). In 1963, Danforth was hired by special visual effects pioneer Linwood G. Dunn to animate miniature versions of the comedians in Stanley Kramer's all-star comedy; It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Danforth has been twice nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects the Stop-Motion Animation for George Pal's 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1963), and for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970). All his films will be posted & more about him.