Crediting Mom
I read with great interest Michael Mallory’s article on women in animation (“Move Over, Old Men,” March 19), as my mother, Helen Jordan, was an inker and painter at Disney from 1937 to 1982, never once seeing her name in the credits of the films on which she worked.
It’s wonderful, then, to see women now having such an impact, but I also think accolades should go to those many women without whom animation classics would not have reached the screen. The only person to give my mother screen credit was Ralph Bakshi, who called her the “steadiest hand in the business.”
I think there’s some poetic justice in the fact that the creator of “Fritz the Cat” was more thoughtful and aware than the reigning powers that be.
HOLLIS JORDAN
Burbank
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