Original hand inked and hand painted production animation cel of Cinderella set on a lithographic background from "Cinderella," 1950, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Cinderella: 7 x 3", Image 11 x 9 1/2"; Unframed.
"A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams
you will lose your heartaches. Whatever you wish for, you keep. Have
faith in your dreams, and someday, your rainbow will come smiling
through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing,
the dream that you wish will come true." - Cinderella
The
1950 Walt Disney feature film "Cinderella" was based on the French
version of the tale by Charles Perrault, entitled "Cinderella" and
written in 1698. The film was the second in the series of great Princess
films developed by Disney, the first being Snow White in 1937. The
character of Cinderella is usually front and center in the pantheon of
Disney Princess merchandise, perhaps because she is the only Princess
not to be of a noble blood line who ended up marrying a Prince and
becoming royalty.
Cinderella
was animated by both Marc Davis and Eric Larson, however the two
animators had different perceptions of the character, with Davis
preferring elegance and Larson opting for simplicity. This actually
worked in the film's favor, resulting in Cinderella being a much more
complicated character than her predecessor Snow White. As with other
Disney films, the studio hired actress Helene Stanley to perform the
live-action reference for Cinderella. She would later return to the
studio for the characters of Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty," 1959 and Anita
Radcliffe in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," 1961.
According to Christopher Finch, from his book "The Art of Walt Disney":
"Disney
insisted that all scenes involving human characters should be shot
first in live-action to determine that they would work before the
expensive business of animation was permitted to start. The animators
did not like this way of working, feeling it detracted from their
ability to create character. The animators understood the necessity for
this approach and in retrospect acknowledged that Disney had handled
things with considerable subtlety."
About
400 women and girls auditioned for the voice role of Cinderella, but
the role ended up going to Ilene Woods. Woods, who at the time worked on
the radio and did not know anything about the audition, was asked one
day by her colleagues Mack David and Jerry Livingston to sing a song
from Cinderella. Without her knowledge, her recording was given by her
friends to Disney Studios. After listening to the material Walt Disney
immediately decided that he had found the voice with which to speak and
sing the character of Cinderella and contacted Ilene.
This
is a rare and wonderful hand painted and hand inked original production cel of Cinderella. Animation cels of Cinderella are rare to the market and here she is full figure with her eyes open. A fantastic piece of Walt Disney vintage artwork that would be a great addition to any animation art collection!
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