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 [...]
Archive > January 2009
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 [...]