Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company (or Disney for short) is an American media corporation that was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney. It is best known in its capacity as a film studio responsible for making animated movies aimed at children, notably a series of highly successful animated fairy tales named after female characters.
The Walt Disney Company is also known for its unethical business practices[1], its influence on copyright law, and cultural imperialism.
Sexism at the Disney Company
At the same time as it experienced commercial success because of the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Disney company explicitly refused to hire women as part of its creative team.[2]
The "Disney Studios Artist's Tryout Book" from 1938 reveals that only one department of the studio was open to women as artists:
- All inking and painting of celluloids, and all tracing done in the Studio is perfomed exclusively by a large staff of girls known as Inkers and Painters... This is the only department in the Disney Studio open to women artists.[3]
Sexism in Disney movies
References
- ↑ Wikipedia entry
- ↑ Disney rejection letter, 1938: no girls allowed! -- Boing Boing blog entry dated Tuesday, June 26, 2007
- ↑ History: Disney's Artist Tryout Book -- ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog entry dated Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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