Alice in Wonderland (1951)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Alice in Wonderland (1951) 
original production animation drawing
red and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 5" x 6"

This expressive rough animation drawing of Alice was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in Walt Disney's animated feature based on the stories by Lewis Carroll. In an attempt to tell her story without frightening the Dormouse, Alice leans over to whisper to the Mad Hatter: "I mean my C-A-T..." Marc Davis, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of Alice in this Mad Tea Party scene. The animator wrote the designation "37" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.