This month’s featured link is the great site curated by Heather Kai Smith, an ever growing compilation of female animators, throughout history, and as contemporaries in this current moment. Categorized by time period, techniques and nationality, the database features information as well as filmography of the multitude of female figures working with the manipulated moving image.
Heck Allen was an American screenwriter, novelist and story artist who had a long standing collaboration with Tex Avery.
This month’s featured cartoon is Swing Shift Cinderella, a MGM golden era cartoon. In this picture, the stories of the Little Riding Hood and Cinderella are blended to create a zany chase sequence, as Cinderella performs as a showgirl for Mr. Wolf, running away at midnight to her graveyard shift job – as a welder!
This month’s feature animator is Martha Sigall, an American inker and painter in the Golden Era of American animation.
A biography of Art Babbitt, animator of Geppetto in Pinnochio, the Wicked Queen in Snow White, and the Stork in Dumbo. Working for Walt Disney, he developed Dippy Dog into Goofy, one of the stars of the studio. As a union activist, he also acted as a thorn in Disney’s side.
A biography of Walt Disney.
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