The Ink and Paint Folk Podcast
TV & Film
Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast where we celebrate women working in animation and explore representation behind the scenes and on the screen.
In an era where women mostly worked in the Ink and Paint Department, a young woman named Bianca Majolie was hired to (as one news outlet reported) invade "the strictly masculine stronghold" of the story department at Disney Animation. She was the first recorded woman to work as a storyboard and concept artist for the company. Her most remembered accomplishment was creating the Silly Symphony cartoon, Elmer Elephant, as well as was a source of inspiration for animators like Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston who sited her philosophies on pathos for how the studio's storytelling style eventually evolved. A lesson that the gag-driven storytellers in the room weren't ready for at the time!
Hosted by Rebecca Nelson and Cassie Soliday.
Additional research by Samantha Conroy @anim_heroine
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The episode artwork of Bianca Majolie was drawn and painted by the wonderful Madi Hodges. Check her work out at http://madidrawsthings.tumblr.com and https://www.instagram.com/madidrawsthings !
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES USED
Library Collections:
NYU Fales Library
John Canemaker Animation Collection
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/cane/
Books:
Canemaker, John (1996). Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists. Hyperion Books.
Ghez, Didier (2015). They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age. Chronicle Books.
Johnson, Mindy; Foray, June (2017). Ink & paint : the women of Walt Disney's animation. Disney Editions.
Websites:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-silly-symphony-woodland-cafe-1937/
https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/worth-much-man-cracking-celluloid-ceiling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Majolie
https://www.californiawatercolor.com/pages/carl-westdahl-heilborn-biography
IPF-181, Nilah MaGruder, Author-Illustrator, Storyboard Artist, and Creator
IPF-180, Peacock's "In the Know" with Stop-Motion Animation Artists, KC Englander and Savannah Steiner
IPF-179, Samantha Gray, Director, Storyboard Artist, and Creator
IPF-178, Andy Garner Flexner, Art Director, Activist, and TAG Queer & Trans Committee Co-Chair
IPF-177, Brianne Drouhard, Storyboard Artist, Director, and Creator (part 2)
IPF-176, Brianne Drouhard, Storyboard Artist, Director, and Creator (part 1)
IPF-175, Fu Yang, Stop Motion Artist & Filmmaker
IPF-174, Kajsa Næss, Director of Titina
IPF-173, Tonje Skar Reiersen, Producer of Titina
IPF-172, Emma McCann, Art Director & Production Designer of Titina
IPF-171, Dyveke Skøld, Lead Storyboard Artist of Titina
IPF-170, Marie-Laure Guisset, Animation Director of Titina
IPF-169, Christy Page, Lighting Artist
IPF-168, Sarah Johnson, Supervising Director
IPF-167, Karine Charlebois, Storyboard Supervisor and Director (part 2)
IPF-166, Karine Charlebois, Storyboard Supervisor and Director (part 1)
I&PF-165, Bobby Pontillas, Art Director in Development & Ally
I&PF-164, Garnet Garcia, Nickelodeon Intern & Storyboard Artist
I&PF-163, the return of Angela Entzminger, Storyboard Artist and TV Writer
I&PF-162, Alyssa Harden, Writer and Production Coordinator
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