More than tracing: The women behind Disney animation | BFI video essay
- Andy McIlvain
- Jul 19
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 20
Video from BFI
More than tracing: The women behind Disney animation | BFI video essay
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first feature film, was a marvel of artistic skill and technological innovation.
While the story of Disney's core animators - the "Nine Old Men" - is well known, the meticulous work of hundreds of women - including trailblazers like art director Hazel Sewell, ink and paint master Mary Tebb and Mary Weiser, who took it upon herself to open and operate the world's first in-house animation studio paint lab - is less celebrated.
In this video essay Queline Meadows (@kikikrazed) champions the achievements of the women who, through artistic skill and technical innovation, helped form the foundations of Disney animation." from the video introduction
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