Original hand painted and hand inked production animation cel of Doc set on an airbrushed wood veneer Courvoisier background from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937, Walt Disney Studios; Partial Courvoisier label verso; Size - Doc: 3 x 3 3/4", Image 5 1/2 x 5 1/4", Mat 14 x 12"; Single matted.
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Development
on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began in early 1934, and by June
Walt Disney announced to The New York Times the production of his first
feature, to be released under Walt Disney Productions. Before Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Disney studio had been primarily
involved in the production of animated short subjects in the Mickey
Mouse and Silly Symphonies series. However, Disney hoped to expand his
studio's prestige and revenues by moving into features, and he estimated
that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs could be produced for a budget of
$250,000 (this was ten times the budget of an average Silly Symphony).
Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs was to be the first full-length cel animated
feature in motion picture history, and as such Walt Disney had to fight
to get the film produced. Both his brother and business partner Roy
Disney, as well as his wife Lillian attempted to talk him out of it.
The Hollywood movie industry mockingly referred to the film, while is
was in production, as "Disney's Folly." Disney ended up having to
mortgage his house to help finance the film's production, which would
eventually ran up to a total cost of $1,488,422.74; an absolutely
massive sum for a feature film in 1937!
Back of the original production animation cel of Doc showing the partial Courvoisier label.
Matted original production animation cel of Doc.
Although
the initial concept designing of the dwarfs was relatively easy for the
Walt Disney animation department, the actual animating of them proved
to be difficult. The animators, already finding human figures difficult
to animate, now had to animate dwarfed human figures. The great Disney
animator Vladimir Tytla noted that the dwarfs should walk with a swing
to their hips, and Fred Moore commented that they had to move a little
more quickly in order to keep up with the other human characters.
Doc
was not present in the original November 1935 story outline of the film
as referenced by Robert D. Field in "The Art of Walt Disney." However,
several months later his role in the film and his relationship with
Grumpy was well established. Walt Disney commented that Doc's flustered
personality should be such that he never knew quite where he is without
one of his fellow dwarfs reminding him. Radio comedian Roy Atwell, who
used stammering and mixed-up language in his act, was chosen to be the
voice of Doc. Various Walt Disney artists were involved in the animation
of Doc throughout the film including: Vladimir Tytl, Fred Moore, Shamus
Culhane, Les Clark, and Ward Kimball.
This
is an absolutely wonderful original hand painted and hand inked
production cel of Doc set on an airbrushed (used to create the shadow
and the dwarf name) wood veneer Courvoisier background. The Courvoisier
portrait series from Snow White is highly desired by collectors for
their beauty. Courvoisier Galleries, the first to recognize the artistic
value to the newly emerging animation art form, in the 1930s and 40s
created the series to sell to the public. All the characters from the
film were made for the series including The Seven Dwarfs, Snow White,
The Huntsman, The Old Hag, and The Evil Queen. The character cels were
trimmed and applied to the wood veneer background. This is a very nice
portrait of Doc with both eyes open, smiling, wearing his glasses, and his hands are out in front of him.
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