Pinocchio (1940)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Pinocchio (1940) 
original production animation drawing
red, blue, green and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 6.75" x 9.5"

This large-image final animation drawing of Stromboli was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of the classic animated feature, and a cel painting was made directly from it. Animation of the scene was supervised by Vladimir Tytla, one of Walt Disney's premier animator of the 1930s and early-1940s. Inside his wagon following his wildly successful puppet show, Stromboli flamboyantly declares to Pinocchio, his new star: "I will poosh you in de public's eye—your face, she will be on everybody's tongue." The animator wrote the studio designation “C144” at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene, and the studio stamp denoting production, sequence and scene numbers appears above it.