Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Patricia Zohn on Walt Disney Animators Culture: vanityfair.com

The women behind the magic. This is a great article on the ink and paint girls at the fledgling Walt Disney studios. $16 a week, sometimes working weekends and overtime to finish the job. At an average of 8 to 10 cels an hour, 100 girls could only, in theory, turn out less than one minute of screen time by the end of the day. Where would Snow White be without them?

Patricia Zohn on Walt Disney Animators Culture: vanityfair.com

1 comment:

High Sierra Flyfisherman said...

Interesting. I think people were happy to have a job. Unemployment had been over 20%. and in 1936 was still 16.9%, increasd to 19% in '38. This was a hard time to find work.