01/05/1921
Cluj, Cluj, Romania:
Thérèse "Tissa" David was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years. She was one of the pioneering women in animation, a field which had been dominated by male animators. Millimeter magazine described her as "one of the few women to have reached the top in the traditionally male-dominated animated cartoon field" and "one of the world's best and busiest" animators in a story published in 1975. In 1953, David directed Bonjour Paris [fr], becoming the second female animator to direct an animated feature film. David later became one of the first women to create and animate a major character in a film when she designed Raggedy Ann for the 1977 film, 'Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure'.
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Ira Sleeps Over (1991) Storyboard |
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Ira Sleeps Over (1991) Layout |
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Abel's Island (1988) Animation |
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The Cosmic Eye (1986) Animation |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1986) Director |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1986) Writer |
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A Doonesbury Special (1977) Animation |
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) Animation |