Peter Pan (1953)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Peter Pan (1953) 
original production animation drawing
pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 10.75" x 9.5"

This lively rough animation drawing of John Darling, Wendy and Michael's brother, was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in Walt Disney's animated feature of J.M. Barrie's classic story. Disney animator Hal King supervised the animation of this scene, and this is undoubtedly one of his drawings. Huddled with the Lost Boys, John pontificates on his strategy for dealing with the natives just as he is captured by a brave concealed inside a tree: "We simply surround them and take them by surprise." The animator wrote the designation "61" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.