Brave Little Tailor (1938)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Brave Little Tailor (1938)
original production animation drawing
red, green and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 4.5" x 2.75"

This original final animation drawing of Mickey Mouse in the title role was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of the animated cartoon directed by Bill Roberts, and a cel painting was made directly from it. Frank Thomas, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of all of Mickey's scenes at the King's court. Mickey reacts after the King has named him "Royal High Killer of the Giant" and raised his offer to "two million pazoozas." The animator wrote the studio designation “11” at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene