Pinocchio (1940)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Pinocchio (1940) 
original production animation drawing
red, green and black pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 4.75" x 4"

This original final animation drawing of Pinocchio was created by a Disney Studio animator in production of the animated feature, and a cel painting was made directly from it. Wolfgang Reitherman, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of Pinoke in this scene during his performance in Stromboli's marionette show. Initially taken aback by the ferocity of the anarchist Russian marionettes, Pinoke soon finds himself imitating their dance and kicking himself in the fanny in time with the music. The animator wrote the circled number “146” at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene; studio stamp denoting production, sequence, and scene numbers also appears at lower right.