Original production animation drawing of a Goon in red, blue, and graphite pencils from "Sleeping Beauty," 1959, Walt Disney Studios; Numbered 7 lower right; Size - Goon: 8 x 7 3/4", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed.
"It's
incredible! 16 years, and not a trace of her! She couldn't have vanished
into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?" - Maleficent
"Sleeping Beauty" is a Walt Disney animated full length feature film and was based on "The Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault and "Little Briar Rose" by The Brothers Grimm. The film was the sixteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, and it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959 by Buena Vista Distribution. This was to be the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for many years, both because of its initial mixed critical reception, and because of it's under performance at the box office. The Walt Disney studio did not return to the fairy tale genre until 30 years later, with the release of "The Little Mermaid" in 1989.
"Sleeping Beauty" was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman, under the supervision of Clyde Geronimi. The story was written by Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta. The film's musical score and songs, featuring the Graunke Symphony Orchestra, was under the direction of George Bruns. Arrangements and/or adaptations were derived from numbers from the 1890 "Sleeping Beauty Ballet" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In addition, Igor Stravinsky's music compositions were also adapted into the film. "Sleeping Beauty" was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature film to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen; following "Lady and the Tramp" four years earlier. In select first-run engagements, the film was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound.
Close up of the original production animation drawing of a Goon.
The next two paragraphs are from Walt Disney animator Andreas Deja:
"Sleeping Beauty's Goons have their roots in paintings by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). When I was a kid there was nothing scarier than to look at his pictures depicting visions of hell. Bosch filled his canvas with evil creatures whose anatomy was comprised of various animal and human parts.
Bill Peet and several other Disney artists studied these gruesome figures and used some visual elements in designing Maleficent's scary, but not to smart henchman, the Goons. Peet had a great time researching and boarding sequences that included the Goons. Eventually these Disney versions of Bosch's monsters were given comical treatment. They are still repulsive, but not scary enough to give children nightmares. John Lounsbery animated most of the important scenes involving the Goons, including the pig like leader."
In addition to Lounsbery, Milt Kahl also animated some of the key scenes of the Goons. Candy Candido, Pinto Colvig, and Bob Amsberry provided the Goon voices. This is a rare original production animation drawing of the Pig Leader of Maleficent's Goons, and is from the scene in Maleficent's Castle when she is furious over the fact that her Goon Henchman (after 16 years) have not been able to find Princess Aurora. Maleficent screams, "It's incredible! 16 years, and not a trace of her! She couldn't have vanished into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?" The Goons go on to explain that they have searched all the cradles; thus explaining that they have been looking for a baby for all those years. This is a wonderful animation clean up drawing of the Pig Goon Leader. He is eyes and mouth open, wearing his helmet, and holding a halberd (a type of of weapon prominent weapon from the 14th and 15th centuries that consist of an axe blade topped with a spike set on a long pole). A great drawing for any vintage Walt Disney animation art collection! The dialog for the scene is below:
Maleficent: "It's incredible! 16 years, and not a trace of her! She couldn't have vanished into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?"
Goons: "Yes, yes, uh, everywhere. - We all did. Yeah, yeah! Uh-huh, yeah."
Maleficent: "And what about the town? The forest? The mountains?"
Goons: "Yeah, we searched mountains, uh, uh, uh, uh, forest.. and, uh, houses, and, uh... Let me see. Uh, and all the cradles."
Maleficent: "Cradle?"
Goons: "Yep, yep. Every cradle."
Maleficent: "Cradle? Did you hear that, my pet? All these years, they've been looking for a baby. Fools! Idiots! Imbeciles!"
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