Reclaiming a Place in Animation History for a Female Pioneer
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/movies/animation-bessie-mae-kelley.amp.html

“A historian of the form has unearthed works by Bessie Mae Kelley that rank as the earliest-known hand-drawn animated films directed by a woman.”

#Animation #BessieMaeKelley #Filmmaking #History

"Kelley began working in the industry doing menial jobs like washing film cells, but she worked her way up and Johnson said she was eventually "working elbow to elbow with #MaxFleischer, #PaulTerry and #WalterLantz, animators who were household names."

Her work as a pioneering animator was lost to history — until now | #BessieMaeKelley #Animation #HistoryOfAnimation #WomenInAnimation | NPR
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145092476/bessie-mae-kelley-first-woman-animator

A news story covering #BessieMaeKelley, an overlooked early #animator:

"Kelley was an #animation pioneer, having hand-drawn a mouse couple named Milton and Mary before [Mickey and Minnie]. She would apprise vaudeville audiences of the new world of moving #cartoons... She even billed herself as 'the only woman animator' on these tours.

"Yet much of Kelley's story and work was lost to the pages of her own journals and left undocumented — until now..."

https://text.npr.org/1145092476