Peter Pan (1953)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Peter Pan (1953) 
original production animation drawing
pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 5.75" x 2.25"

This original rough animation drawing of Michael Darling was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in Walt Disney's animated feature of J.M. Barrie's classic story. Set in the Darling nursery, the scene shows Michael standing on his bed after Peter Pan has sprinkled him with Tinker Bell's pixie dust. In teaching Wendy, Michael and John to fly Peter Pan directs them to think of the "...happiest things. It's the same as having wings." Animator Jack King supervised this scene, and this extreme drawing, with grid at left, is undoubtedly his work. Michael floats upward off the bed, so the scene was animated in a vertical format with registration holes at right. The animator wrote the circled number "17" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene; production information "2074 - Seq. 02.1 - Sc. 67" and "For INBT. only" are written along the bottom and at right.