Sylvia Holland
as remembered by Theo Halladay
Sylvia Holland was one of the three top women story artists at the Disney Studio before World War II, along with Mary Blair and Bianca Majolie.
She was hired on September 6, 1938, and was assigned to work on Fantasia. She tackled the Pastoral Symphony and directed the Waltz of the Flowers sequence in the Nutcracker Suite. She was also heavily involved in Fantasia’s unproduced sequel, and created the beautiful concept drawings for The Swan of Tuonela, Adventures in a Perambulator (based on a musical piece by John Alden Carpenter), The Flight of the Bumble Bee (based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous piece from The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Butterflies (based on a piano piece composed by Edvard Grieg), Mosquito Dance (on a musical piece by Paul White called Five Miniatures for Piano), the Dragonfly Ballet (based on Chopin’s Minute Waltz), and Baby Ballet (based on some music by Chopin or a medley of Handel, Mozart and Brahms, depending on sources). […]
Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - Ruth Disney Beecher (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Les Clark (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston)
- 3 - Harry Tytle (Richard Hubler)
- 4 - James Bodrero (Milt Gray)
- 5 - Sylvia Holland - as remembered by Theo Halladay
- 6 - Retta Scott (Robin Allan)
- 7 - Retta Davidson (Jim Korkis)
- 8 - Retta Davidson (Floyd Norman)
- 9 - Moe Gollub - as remembered by Mark Kirkland (Steve Hulett)
- 10 - Ben Sharpsteen (Richard Hubler)
- 11 - Lou Debney (David Tietyen)
- 12 - Jim Macdonald (David Tietyen)
- 13 - Charles Wolcott (David Tietyen)
- 14 - Bill Cottrell (Richard Hubler)
- 15 - Herb Ryman (Richard Hubler)
- 16 - Donn Tatum (Richard Hubler)
- 17 - Card Walker (Richard Hubler)
- 18 - Bob Sherman (Richard Hubler)
- 19 - Dolores Voght (Richard Hubler)
- 20 - Tommie Wilck (Richard Hubler)
- 21 - Welton Becket (Richard Hubler)
- 22 - Bill Anderson (John G. West)
- 23 - Robert Stevenson (Richard Hubler)
- 24 - Don Griffith (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 25 - Floyd Gottfredson (Jim Korkis)
- 26 - Floyd Gottfredson (Tony Fischier)
- 27 - Al Taliaferro (Jim Korkis)
- 28 - Jack Hannah (Jim Korkis)
- 29 - Carl Barks (Jim Fanning)
- 30 - Blaine Gibson (Paul F. Anderson)
- 31 - Harriet Burns (Scott Wolf)
- 32 - Roy E. Disney (Charles Solomon)
- 33 - Correspondence with Frank Thomas (Göran Broling)
- 34 - Bud Hester (Didier Ghez)
- 35 - Ken Southworth (Didier Ghez)
- 36 - Dale Baer (Didier Ghez)
Persons
Robin Allan (author)Sylvia Holland (subject)