Cinderella (1950)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Cinderella (1950) 
original production animation drawing
red and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 8.5" x 4.5"

This pretty, rough animation drawing of Cinderella wearing the dress made by her bird and mouse friends was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in the animated feature. Marc Davis, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of this scene in which Cinderella apprehensively awaits the approach of Lady Tremaine, who remarks: "My word...hm." By the making of Cinderella Marc Davis had emerged as the lead animator of the main female characters in Walt Disney's feature films; throughout the decade he supervised the animation, and contributed to the design, of Cinderella, Alice, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Aurora, Maleficent, and Cruella De Vil. The animator wrote the designation "2" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.