Becky Fallberg

The people were what made my years at Disney special, and in that position, I met many. And we were all working together toward the same goal—making magic. —Becky Fallberg
Rebecca "Becky" Fallberg (née Dorner) was an American ink painter, who worked in various departments within Disney, working on nearly 25 of feature films starting with Saludos Amigos.
Born Rebecca Dorner in 1923, in Bell, a small town in Los Angeles County, in southern California to Joseph Dorner, an Austro-Hungarian immigrant and Rovena Hilton, a descendant of Plymouth Colony settlers. Her early childhood was spent in Elysian Valley with her brother, George, and she graduated from John Marshall High School in 1942 and studying art for one year at Los Angeles City College.
After joining the Disney Studio as a telephone operator, she was promoted to painter when her future sister-in-law Elinor Fallberg was moved to the Animation Department. Becky worked on animated training and propaganda films, including Victory Through Air Power, which the studio was producing in support of American military efforts during World War II. By 1943, she moved from Ink and Paint to the Animation department, where she copied animators' drawings for the Color Model Department and assisted animation supervisor Johnny Bond. In 1945, she married Elinor's brother, Carl, who was a scriptwriter for the studio, and had one daughter, Carla.
In 1947, she became a blue sketch artist for the Layout and Background department for three years before returning to the Ink and Paint Department as paint matcher and, later, final checker, ensuring that animation cels were properly drawn and colored. During the 1960s and early 70s, she worked in the newly-developed Xerox Camera department, followed by the Educational Films department, headed by Les Clark, where she and her supervisor performed all Ink and Paint tasks. She was later promoted to manager of the Ink and Paint department in 1975.
Fallberg remained head of the department until 1986, when she retired after more than 45 years at the studio. Now retired, Becky devoted herself to her passion for architecture by volunteering as a guide at the Gamble House in Pasadena. On October 12, 2000, she became a Disney Legend and in 2005 was awarded an Animation Guild's Animation Award.
At the age of 83, she died on October 9, 2007 from chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Role
1942	Saludos Amigos 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1942	Pluto at the Zoo 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1943	The Spirit of '43 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1943	Pluto and the Armadillo 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1943	Victory Vehicles 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1943	The Old Army Game 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1943	Victory Through Air Power 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1944	How to Be a Sailor 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1944	The Three Caballeros 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1944	Donald Duck and the Gorilla 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1944	Contrary Condor 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1944	Commando Duck 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1944	How to Play Football 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1945	The Clock Watcher 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1945	Californy 'er Bust 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1945	No Sail 	Color modeler (uncredited)
1945	Hockey Homicide 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1945	Cured Duck 	Color modelerInk and paint (uncredited)
1946	Make Mine Music 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1946	Song of the South 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1946	Donald's Double Trouble 	Color modeler (uncredited)
1946	Double Dribble 	Color modeler (uncredited)
1947	Fun and Fancy Free 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1947	Crazy with the Heat 	Color modeler (uncredited)
1948	Melody Time 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1948	So Dear to My Heart 	Painter (uncredited)
1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	Painter (uncredited)
1950	Cinderella 	Painter (uncredited)
1951	Alice in Wonderland 	Painter (uncredited)
1953	Peter Pan 	Painter (uncredited)
1953	Ben and Me 	Painter (uncredited)
1955	Lady and the Tramp 	Ink and paint (uncredited)
1957	The Truth About Mother Goose 	Ink and paint artist (uncredited)
1958	Paul Bunyan 	Ink and paint artist (uncredited)
1959	Sleeping Beauty 	InkerPainter (uncredited)
1959	Donald in Mathmagic Land 	Ink and paint artist (uncredited)
1960	Goliath II 	Painter (uncredited)
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	Xerox operator (uncredited)
1962	A Symposium on Popular Songs 	Xerographer (uncredited)
1963	The Sword in the Stone 	Xerox operator (uncredited)
1964	Mary Poppins 	Xerox (uncredited)
1967	The Jungle Book 	Xerox operator (uncredited)
1969	It's Tough to Be a Bird 	Xerox (uncredited)
1970	Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? 	Xerox (uncredited)
1970	The Aristocats 	Xerox operator (uncredited)
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	Xerox check/inking (uncredited)
1973	Robin Hood 	Xerox check/inking (uncredited)
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Xerox processor (uncredited): "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree""Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too"
1977	The Rescuers 	Ink and paint manager (uncredited)
1977	Pete's Dragon 	Ink and paint manager (uncredited)
1978	The Small One 	Ink and paint manager (uncredited)
1981	The Fox and the Hound 	Ink and paint manager (uncredited)
1983	Mickey's Christmas Carol 	Ink and paint manager (uncredited)
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Ink and paint manager
1986	The Great Mouse Detective 	Ink and paint manager (uncredited)
==Gallery==
Becky Fallberg 2.jpg
Dodie Roberts in 2000.jpg|L-R: Becky Fallberg, Ron Dominguez and Dodie Roberts in 2000.
==Trivia==
*In 1936, her family moved to a home in Silver Lake, that overlooked the old Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue. To help with expenses, her father, an electrician for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, rented some rooms to the artists at the studio.
*Fallberg managed to land a job at Disney thanks to her old school friend Audrey, whose mother, Dorothy Ann Blank, was at the time a librarian at the studios.
*During production of The Black Cauldron, a new system for transferring celluloid sheets onto film had just been set up, nicknamed the APT. It was supposed to facilitate the photography of each drawing. Fallberg warned, however, that it would be better to test this new technology on a short film rather than on a feature film. However, she was not listened to. By transferring the celluloids onto film, the colors were altered as she had predicted. The teams then had to adapt, changing the color palette and repainting the thousands of celluloids already completed.
==External links==
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*Fallberg's LA Times Obituary
*Becky Fallberg - d23
*Chronique Disney - Becky Fallberg
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