Peter Pan (1953)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Peter Pan (1953) 
original production animation drawing
red, blue, green, pink, and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 11.5" x 11"

This rare, large-image final animation drawing of Peter Pan holding the gift containing Captain Hook's concealed bomb was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of the animated feature based on the story by J. M. Barrie, and a cel painting was made directly from it. Eric Larson, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of this scene in which the package begins to vibrate and smoke as Tinker Bell heroically flies into the scene to whisk the bomb away from Peter Pan. The package was partly colored to indicate the effects and vibration of the package. The animator wrote the studio designation "93" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene; "B-93" written at lower left identifies the visual effects that were likely painted on a separate cel level.