Archive > January 2009

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work she goes…

Monday’s post about Walt Disney Productions not hiring female animators in the 1930s may not have interested y’all much, but it has had me thinking — and talking.  (Perhaps because for years as a girl I harbored aspirations of being a Disney animator — until I realized I hadn’t had adequate training and I was [...]

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The Art of Rejection

I saw this on Digg and just had to post it here.  This is a 1938 rejection letter sent by Walt Disney Productions to a woman who queried about a position in the animation department: I’m trying to imagine what it would feel like to get a letter like this from a literary agent or [...]

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