Welcome to the Nodal Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel saying and this is episode number

3.24.

As part of our Spes Smithsonian Associates Art of Living interview series, The Her Story History Event,

our guest today is Mindy Johnson.

Mindy Johnson will be appearing at the Smithsonian Associates Program titled The Women

who animated the Movies, uncovering a colorful history.

Mindy Johnson is a leading expert on women's roles in animation and film history,

and she will be examining these groundbreaking and game-changing women

in her upcoming Smithsonian Associates presentation.

From the very beginnings of cellular to the digital revolution women have shaped the animated form.

As a matter of fact, the all femalefemale chemists in the Disney paint labs transformed the palette of the studio's early three-strip technology animation from 80 colors to 1,500 colors which transformed animated film.

Women brought about wonderful changes in story, ideas, direction,

and the Walt Disney Studios and Walt Disney himself encouraged and developed women who've brought about the art form we know and love today.

Walt Disney was really looking to explore and push boundaries when it comes to animation.

Things had been very simple and he saw it

as a true art form and one of the areas

that he really expanded with is bringing women into roles that helped to advance and explore wider

realms of storytelling because of what women brought to the experience.

They made tremendous advances in terms of color, story, characterization,

and it really is a remarkable story to see how women have had such a strong impact on the animated

art form that we know and love today.

This was a story that I really underestimated.

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