Female Animator LaVerne Harding Cartoon Brew posted this, but I thought I should give it some face time here, since I seem to be what Walt would term lacking "the knack of getting smooth action into my drawings" due to the fact I am a female. It's funny to look back and see how the atmosphere of the times can affect the workplace.
Men of Action
Walt Disney explains why women don’t make good animators:
Ordinarily Disney keeps from 30 to 40 men in his apprentice room. The apprenticeship lasts from six months to a year.
As a rule this class is composed entirely of young men. Seldom is a girl found among them. For some inexplainable reason, women don’t make good animators. At the present time there is only one in the entire business—Verne Harding who works on Oswald at Universal.
“I don’t know why girls should be poor animators but they are,” Disney declares. “Very frequently they are better artists than men but for some reason they lack the knack of getting smooth action into their drawings.”
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