Sleeping Beauty (1959)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Sleeping Beauty (1959) 
original production animation drawing
blue and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 11.25" x 9.5"

This original rough animation drawing of Maleficent as the Dragon was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in Walt Disney's Technirama animated feature. Veteran Disney animator Eric Cleworth supervised the animation of the Dragon, including this scene in which Maleficent backs Prince Phillip toward the edge of the cliff. The blue pencil, and perhaps the entire drawing, is his work; the Dragon's wings were likely animated on a separate level. The animator wrote the designation "A-47" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.