First Female Disney Animator to Recieve Screen Credit
Happy International Women's Day! Bambi (1942) holds great significance for female animators. Retta Scott (1916-1990) was an artist at Disney who drew storyboards for the film. She drew the vicious hunting dogs so well that the male animators couldn’t believe a woman drew them. She did such a good job at drawing them that Walt promoted her to animator and gave her the job of animating the hunting dog scene with the dogs chasing Faline and fighting Bambi. Retta Scott would become the first female animator to be given screen credit for her work on the film. Her previous uncredited work included Fantasia (1940) and Dumbo (1941). After Bambi , she worked on the Wind in the Willows segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). One short film she is known for was The Story of Menstruation (1946), which was an educational film shown at schools. She retired from animation to raise a family. She got back into animating and animated in the film The Plague Dogs (1982) alongside...