Her first feature was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' and she was one of the first women to be admitted into the Hollywood camera union.
Ruthie Tompson, who spent four decades at the Walt Disney Co. working on animated features, virtually every one fromTompson died Sunday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, a Disney spokesperson announced.
As supervisor of the scene-planning department at Disney Studios, Tompson helped to establish the camera mechanics used to photograph animated scenes and background art onto film. That expertise earned her an pioneering invitation to join the International Photographers Union in 1952. “Apparently the boys were impressed with my curiosity and decided that, [because of] what I did mechanically with the camera moves, that I should be a part of the camera union,” she said in the 2014 short film, which focused on seven residents of the MPTF home. “I was one of two women that were taken in. I thought, ‘That feels good.’ ”Born in Portland, Maine, on July 22, 1910, Tompson was raised in Boston.
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