The creator of “Snow White” has died at the age of 111 / The last survivor of the first Hollywood animations is gone!

According to the Fars News Agency cinema reporter, quoting The Hollywood ReporterDisney animation legend Rothy Thompson has died at the age of 111. Her first film was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and she was one of the first women to be accepted into the Hollywood Camera Union.

Ruth Thompson, who spent four decades at Walt Disney Company working on feature-length animated films from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to “Rescuers,” has died at the age of 111.

A Disney spokesman said Thompson died Sunday at the Woodland Hills Film and Television Fund Hospital.

As head of scene design at Disney Studios, Thompson helped create the camera mechanics used to capture moving scenes and background art on animated films. This specialization led him to join the International Union of Cinematographers in 1952.

“Apparently Disney co-workers were impressed by my curiosity and decided that [به دلیل] The mechanic I did with moving the camera, I had to be part of the camera union, which focused on seven residents of the TV and Animation Foundation. I was one of only two women to be accepted. I thought it felt good.

Thompson was born on July 22, 1910 in Portland, Maine and grew up in Boston. He and his family moved to Auckland, California in 1918 and settled in Los Angeles, near the first Walt Disney Studios, in the Craftman summer cottages on Kingswell Street in Los Angeles, before moving to Los Angeles.

In 1937, he began working around the clock on “Snow White” and attracted the attention of Disney executives.

After working at Disney and releasing classic animations such as “Fantasy” (1940), “Alice in Wonderland” (1951), “Sleeping Beauty” (1959), “One Hundred and One”, “Spotted Dog” (1961) and ” The Jungle Book (1967), Thompson retired from Disney in 1975 shortly after working on The Rescuers. After retiring, he worked on other animation studio projects for another decade.

“Mickey Mouse and I grew up together,” he often said.

Thompson was named a Disney 2000 legend in 2017, on his 107th birthday.

“The best way to describe Thompson is simple and compelling,” said Mandy Johnson, Disney historian and author of Color and Ink: Walt Disney Animation Women in 2017. He is the last link from the early roots of animation in Hollywood. Ruthie was a living witness and a vital contributor to the growth and development of the animation industry as we know it today.

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