Edle Bakke(1927-2019)
- Script and Continuity Department
- Animation Department
- Casting Director
Edle Bakke, a veteran script supervisor at Disney Studios, started out at the all-female Ink & Paint animation department at the studio and spent a decade on 'Gunsmoke.'
She worked for director Ward Kimball on "Man in Space," a groundbreaking 1955 installment of The Magical World of Disney series. Assigned to take notes in shorthand of all the conferences on subjects like weightlessness, centrifugal force, rocket stages and orbital trajectories. Walt never liked seeing someone taking notes, Edle was discretely placed behind a tall screen where she jotted down everything being said, minus four-letter words that often crept into Walt's vocabulary. They didn't use tape recorders in those days.
She became the first person the studio trained to be a live-action script supervisor and kept track of things on Old Yeller (1957) and Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks With a Circus (1960) and on TV shows like Davy Crockett, Spin & Marty, The Hardy Boys, Zorro and The Mickey Mouse Club.
In August 2017, she and her sister, Lucile (another Disney animation alum), were among those honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a celebration that recognized women at the forefront of film animation. Both are featured in Mindy Johnson's 2017 book, Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation.
She worked for director Ward Kimball on "Man in Space," a groundbreaking 1955 installment of The Magical World of Disney series. Assigned to take notes in shorthand of all the conferences on subjects like weightlessness, centrifugal force, rocket stages and orbital trajectories. Walt never liked seeing someone taking notes, Edle was discretely placed behind a tall screen where she jotted down everything being said, minus four-letter words that often crept into Walt's vocabulary. They didn't use tape recorders in those days.
She became the first person the studio trained to be a live-action script supervisor and kept track of things on Old Yeller (1957) and Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks With a Circus (1960) and on TV shows like Davy Crockett, Spin & Marty, The Hardy Boys, Zorro and The Mickey Mouse Club.
In August 2017, she and her sister, Lucile (another Disney animation alum), were among those honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a celebration that recognized women at the forefront of film animation. Both are featured in Mindy Johnson's 2017 book, Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation.
