First female animator worked on Beatles’ Yellow SubmarineANNE COMRIE JOLLIFFE: 1933 – 2021
Anne Jolliffe, who was the first Australian woman to become a professional animator in the days when the animation industry was male-dominated, died in Leura, NSW, on August 27. She was 87.
Anne was a pioneer in the Australian animation industry, who helped to win an Academy Award for animation.
When Anne was three, during the Great Depression, the family moved to Victoria. They settled in Elwood, where Anne’s parents took on a milk bar in the beach suburb. At the age of nine, her father – who had been the treasurer for the Longford Tigers – took her to her first Aussie Rules game. She was devoted to the Richmond Tigers for ever.
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