Venomous Color: The Fairest

Snow White is the original Disney Princess, a role model for generations of girls. Ironically, she originated largely through the underpaid and uncredited work of young women. What was the impact of these cheery, perfectionistic images on the sleep-deprived young women who had to paint them during mandatory overtime, tracing the work of the male animators who didn’t respect them? The Fairest chronicles the story of the all-women ink and paint department at the early Disney animation studio, in their mad dash to finish Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs under extreme working conditions and the physical and psychological toll it takes on them.