Original Production Cels of The Walrus, Oysters, and Menu from "Alice In Wonderland," 1951

Four original hand inked and hand painted production cels of The Walrus, Oysters (row of fronts and row of backs), and menu set on a hand prepared watercolor non-production background from "Alice In Wonderland," 1951; Production numbers bottom right on all four cels 1) The Walrus with menu 2) 6 oyster backs 3) table menu 4) 3 oyster fronts; Size - The Walrus & Oysters 9 1/2" x 10", Cels 11 1/2" x 13 3/4"; Image 10 1/2" x 13"; Unframed.

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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (commonly shortened to "Alice in Wonderland"), is a 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Disney reworked the story to fit with both a younger audience and a time frame suitable for an animated film (it's run time is only 75 minutes). 

Photograph showing the four cels on the hand prepared watercolor background.

One of the most memorable segments of "Alice In Wonderland" were the two characters The Walrus and The Carpenter. Both of them were voiced by J. Pat O'Malley and they were animated by John Lounsbery, Ward Kimball, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Charles A. Nichols. They were originally created by Lewis Carroll for his book "Through the Looking Glass."

J. Pat O'Malley had a long history with voice work for Disney: he was the Cockney guy in the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" sequence in "Mary Poppins," 1964, Cyril Proudbottom, Winkie, and a policeman in "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad," 1949, and Colonel Hathi and Buzzie in "The Jungle Book," 1967. O'Malley performs all the character voices in the "The Walrus and the Carpenter" segment (besides Alice), including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, The Walrus, The Carpenter, and Mother Oyster.

Walrus cel with close up of the production numbers.

Oyster backs cel with close up of the production numbers.

Menu cel with close up of the production numbers.

Oyster fronts cel with close up of the production numbers.

The Walrus and The Carpenter are two hobos whose story was told to Alice by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. The Walrus acts as the leader of the duo and in many ways he is like Honest John from "Pinocchio." They are both conniving moochers who will resort to trickery to get what they want. Finding a job and working is the last thing on The Walrus's mind, regardless of his constant ramblings of "cabbages and kings" (his way of saying that his future will soon be bright). He is also very greedy and tricks The Carpenter into leave the room so that he can eat all of the naive oysters (whom he had convinced to follow him ashore and into a restaurant that The Carpenter built out of left over remnants from a boat).

This is a wonderful four cel setup including: a cel of The Walrus, a cel of three oysters facing front, a cel of six oysters whose backs are facing, and an additional cel of the table menu. The menu cel was used as a hold cel until the menu was picked up by The Walrus. These cels are from the scene that occurs just as The Carpenter, ready to start eating dinner, sits down at the table across from The Walrus. The Walrus asked The Carpenter for a loaf of bread (in order to get rid of The Carpenter) so that he would be all alone to devour the oysters by himself! The dialog for the scene is below:

The Walrus: "A loaf of bread is what we chiefly need!"

The Carpenter: "Listen, how 'bout some pepper and salt and vinegar, eh?"

The Walrus: "Well, yes, yes, splendid idea, ha ha! Very good, indeed."

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Original Production Color Reference Drawing of Micky Mouse from "Society Dog Show," 1939

Original production drawing of Mickey Mouse from "Society Dog Show," 1939; Graphite, orange, purple, brown, pink, yellow, peach, red, blue, and green pencil on peg hole paper; Numbered 32 lower right; Size - Mickey Mouse: 6 x 5 1/2", Sheet 10 x 12"; Unframed.

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Society Dog Show (originally released on February 3, 1939) is a Walt Disney Company animated short film that was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Bill Roberts and animated by Al Eugster, Shamus Culhane, Fred Moore, John Lounsbery, Norm Ferguson, and Leo Salkin. The short is notable in that it was the last appearance of Mickey's older dotted eye character design.

Close up of the Mickey Mouse original production animation drawing.

The plot summary of "Society Dog Show" is that Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney) enters his dog Pluto into an upscale dog show. While Mickey grooms Pluto, Pluto starts swooning over Fifi the Peke who is flirting with him in an adjoining grooming station. Chaos erupts when Pluto, annoyed by all the prodding during the dog show inspection, attacks the Dog Show Judge (voice by Pinto Colvig). Mickey and Pluto are thrown out of the Dog Show and onto the street. Suddenly a fire breaks out in the building when the flash powder from a camera ignites some of the Dog Show decoratons. Pluto bravely goes into the burning building and saves Fifi. The final scene is when the Dog Show Judge places a "Public Hero #1" medal around Pluto's neck, and he shares a hug with Fifi!

Close up of the production number.

This is an exception and very rare original production drawing of Mickey Mouse getting ready to spray perfume onto Pluto. Mickey measures an impressive six inches tall and the drawing contains the color reference notes for both the bottle of perfume and the pump sprayer. The animation drawing is rendered in a large number of colored pencils including: graphite, orange, purple, brown, pink, yellow, peach, red, blue, and green. The dialog for the scene is below:

Mickey (speaking to Pluto): "When I get through, you'll win a dozen blue ribbons."

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Original Production Animation Drawing of Goofy with the Matching 50 Piece Band Layout Drawing from "Mickey's Amateurs," 1937

Original production drawing of Goofy with matching band layout from "Mickey's Amateurs," 1937; Red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and graphite pencil on peg hole paper; Goofy numbered 149 lower right, Band layout number 701 lower right; Size - Goofy: 6 1/4 x 6 1/2", Band: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2", Sheets 10 x 12"; Unframed.

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"Mickey's Amateurs," 1937 was an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. It was initially entitled "Mickey's Amateur Concert" and depicts an amateur talent show hosted by Mickey Mouse. It was co-directed by Pinto Colvig, Erdman Penner, and Walt Pfeiffer; and featured original and adapted music by Oliver Wallace. The voice cast included Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse, Clarence Nash as Donald Duck, Florence Gill as Clara Cluck, and Pinto Colvig as both Pete and Goofy.

Goofy original production animation drawing.

The story is that Mickey Mouse is hosting an amateur talent show in front of a live audience for radio, in which he eliminates bad performances by ringing a gong. In the first scene, Mickey rings the gong and ends Pete's rendition of "Asleep in the Deep". Next Mickey introduces Donald Duck who recites "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," but he forgets the words and Mickey gongs him. Mickey then introduces "the two Claras: Cluck and Belle." Clara Cluck sings a clucking version of "Il Bacio", a waltz by Luigi Arditi, accompanied by Clarabelle Cow on piano. This is the first performance that was not gonged by Mickey. Donald returns to the stage and attempts to finish his poem by holding Mickey and the audience hostage at gunpoint; but he forgets the words again and is quickly removed from the stage.

For the show's finale, Mickey introduces Goofy and his "50-piece band" which is a multi-instrumental device on wheels. Goofy begins with "In the Good Old Summer Time" and then performs "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight". However, the fast tempo and the power of the song destroys the machine in a huge explosion. Goofy is not injured and escapes the wreckage by saying, "It busted!" Donald, having been caught up in the chaos, breaks out of Goofy's bandmaster hat and quickly is able to successful recite "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." He then delivers a "Nya!" at the audience just as the "iris out" effect, which ends the cartoon, closes on his neck. He fights to keep it open but it finally closes; and this is a rare instance of a Disney cartoon actually breaking the theatrical fourth wall.

Close up of the production numbers.

50 piece band layout drawing.

"Mickey's Amateurs" pokes fun at the "amateur hour" radio shows which were very popular in the 1930s and '40s. The most well known example of the time was the "Major Bowes Amateur Hour" in which the host, Edward Bowes, was known to strike a gong to stop an amateur performance. The gong reference, as well as Mickey Mouse's repeating of the words "Okay, okay" in the film, was recognized by audiences at the time as a parody of Bowes.

Close up of the production number.

This is a wonderful and large original production drawing of Goofy. He is full figure wearing his band costume and he is blowing a trumpet that was part of his 50 piece band. There are a large number of production notes, as well as the use of multiple colored pencils, on the drawing which makes it quite collectible. The drawing's complexity signifies that this was one of the key drawings used in making the sequence. In addition, there is the very rare matching original 50 piece band layout drawing; that was used to created the cel background for the cels that were used to make up this sequence.

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Original Production Drawing of Chernabog from the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of "Fantasia," 1940

Original production animation drawing of Chernabog in graphite, blue, orange, and red pencils; Production stamp lower left and numbered 205 lower right; From the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of "Fantasia," 1940, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Chernabog: 11 1/2 x 15 1/2", Sheet 12 1/2 x 15 1/2"; Unframed.

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In 1940 Walt Disney took a huge risk with his third full length feature film "Fantasia." The film consisted of eight animated segments each set to the soundtrack of a different classical music piece, but with no dialog. The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with, what Disney called Fantasound; a pioneering sound reproduction system that made "Fantasia" the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound. The development of Fantasound led to what is now known as surround sound. This drawing is from the famed, "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence.

Close up of the original Chernabog production animation drawing.

From Disneyvillains.wikia:

"The idea for Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria's Devil was conceived by German artist Heinrich Kley who once sketched a pen and ink drawing of a gigantic demon forcing workers out of a factory by blocking the chimney. Albert Hurter, inspired by this drawing and others like it by Kley, drew various sketches of a huge, winged devil tossing handfuls of souls into a volcano. Hurter's sketches also included studies of Chernabog's hands as his flailing minions attempt to clamber onto his fingers for safety; this imagery is used in a scene in the final film. After Hurter's initial sketches, Kay Nielsen established the final appearance of Chernabog and his world in a series of detailled pastel illustrations, as well as a model sheet for the character. Chernabog was then created as a real model, to be used as reference by (animator Vladimir) Tytla during animation. For live-action reference, Wilfred Jackson, the director of Night on Bald Mountain, shot footage of actor Bela Lugosi (famous for his portrayal of Universal's Dracula), to be studied by Tytla. However, Tytla was not satisfied with Lugosi's performance, finding it not to be the way he felt the character would move. As a result, after Lugosi left, Tytla shot live-action footage of Jackson (a skinny man), directing his movements according to his intentions for the character. Jackson later recalled that his hands were also filmed in close-up as reference for Chernabog's hands as he manipulated the flames."

Close up of the production number for the Chernabog drawing.

Tytla would also draw in total darkness, except for the fluorescent light under his animator's light box which lit his face in a spooky and shadowy way. The great Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston have said, "No one but Tytla could have given Chernabog the odious, predominantly animal mentality which made him so fearsome." In his 1983 book "Walt Disney's Fantasia," author John Culhane wrote of Night on Bald Mountain: "The great strength of this segment is that its personification of evil in Vladimir Tytla's animation of Chernabog, the Black God or Satan, was and remains today the highest point yet achieved in the art of animation." Chernabog has always been included in the pantheon of great Disney villains. He is the best representation of pure evil; and most agree the he is also animator Vladimir Tytla's greatest triumph!

This is without question the finest drawing of Chernabog that I have offered for sale! The drawing is very large being over eleven inches tall and fifteen inches wide, and covers the entire sheet of animation paper. He is boldly drawn with both arms visible and he is peering down in front of him with both of his large wings spread behind him. Both of his eyes are open, his horns and even his fingernails are wonderfully drawn. He is accomplished in graphite, blue, orange, and red pencils, with the production stamp lower left and numbered 205 lower right.

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Original Animation Production Drawing of Donald Duck and a Bee from "Moose Hunters," 1937

Original production drawing of Donald Duck and a Bee from "Moose Hunters," 1937; Graphite, red, brown, blue, yellow, and green pencil on peg hole paper; Numbered 173 lower right; Size - Donald Duck and Bee: 9 x 5 1/2", Sheet 10 x 12"; Unframed.

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"Moose Hunters," 1937 is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen with music by Paul J. Smith. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney), Donald Duck (voiced by Clarence Nash), and Goofy (voiced by Pinto Colvig) on a moose hunting expedition. 

Close up of Donald Duck production drawing.

The short begins with a female moose with blonde curled hair wading through a lake; which turns out to be Donald Duck and Goofy disguised in a moose costume and making a moose call by sounding a horn. Following close behind to the duo is Mickey Mouse walking on stillts, disguised as a shrub, carrying a shotgun, and sounding his own moose call. Goofy's horn call is answered by an actual moose, causing him and Donald to excitedly shout "A moose!" Mickey tells them to "do their stuff," meaning to lure the moose closer to him.

Donald and Goofy, still in their female moose costume, end up tracking a large black bull moose. After spoting their prey, an excited Donald adds some makeup and lipstick to make the costume even more attractive. Goofy adds some "deer kiss" perfume to the disguise, himself, and sprays a trail in the wind direction of the bull. The bull moose, attracted by the scent, follows it to the waiting "lady moose." A mere glance from the decoy moose is all it takes for the bull to become smitten, especially when "she" does a seductive walk for him.

Close up of the Bee production drawing with color call out notes.

When the costumed cow moose gives a "yoo-hoo," the bull moose gives a howling response which blows off the costume from Donald and Goofy. However Goofy, who still has the moose head,  performs a fan dance shielded by some shrubs until he and Donald can quickly get back into the costume. Once again in disguise, the pair seductively dance with the aroused bull and succeed in getting him to follow them. Unfortunately, Donald falls and lands in some flowers containing a very angry bee. The insect follows Donald into the moose costume, making he and Goofy dance to the tune of "La Cucuracha." The bull moose kisses Goofy on the face, just as Donald tries to hit the bee. This causes the costume moose head to fly off of Goofy, luckily landing right back on him just before they could be discovered. They now try to lure the excited moose back to Mickey.

Close up of the production numbers.

This is a great drawing of Donald Duck from "Moose Hunters," 1937. He is eyes and mouth open, and  full figure with his fist in the air and yelling at the bee. The details are really wonderful, his left hand is on top of group of flowers and part of the moose costume can be seen around his feet. The bee is rendered in colored pencils and this drawing is also the color call reference drawing. The images of Donald, the bee, flowers, and the various notes occupies almost the entire sheet of peg hole animation paper.

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Original Production Drawing of Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice from "Fantasia," 1940

Original production animation drawing of Mickey Mouse in green and graphite pencil, production stamp lower left and numbered C59 lower right, and used during the production of the "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" sequence of "Fantasia," 1940, Walt Disney Studios; Size - Mickey Mouse: 4 1/4 x 3 1/4", Sheet 10 x 12"; Unframed.

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"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was initially going to be a "Silly Symphonies" short and be a venue for a comeback role for Mickey Mouse, who had declined in popularity. However, it was eventually included in the full length feature film "Fantasia," in 1940. The Disney version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is based on the 1797 poem by Goethe of the same name. Mickey Mouse takes the role of the apprentice and the only real change from the original poem occurs when the Sorcerer is stern and angry with the apprentice after he saves him from a spell gone horribly wrong.

Close up of the Mickey Mouse production animation drawing.

In 1935 a young animator, born in Los Angeles, named Fred Moore gave Mickey his first makeover. Earlier animators had drawn the mouse as a series of circles, which limited his movement. Moore gave him a pear-shaped body, pupils, white gloves, and a shortened nose; all of which added to make the World's most famous mouse a lot cuter. Moore animated Mickey Mouse for the 1938 short "The Brave Little Tailor," which was to be the last significant appearance of the "pie-eyed" Mickey. For "Fantasia," 1940 the "pie-eyes" were gone and Moore's complete transformation of Mickey Mouse for the film continues to be his official look up to this day.

Close up of the production stamp.

Close up of the production number.

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice," is perhaps Mickey Mouse's most well known role (despite the fact that he never utters a single word), and as such it was the only 1940 segment that was added to the later film "Fantasia, 2000." Original production drawings and cels of the character are extremely rare and highly collected and this drawing is a wonderful eyes open image of the character. This drawing is from the scene when Yen Sid comes down the stairs and sees that the room below is filled with water. Mickey had created a spell, using Yen Sid's magical hat, that had caused the brooms to animate, filling pails with water, and quickly flooding the room. Yen Sid waves his hands, breaks the spell, and causes the water to vanish. Mickey, worried about the Sorcerer's reaction to his almost disaster, timidly returns the hat, the broom, and picks up two buckets to begin again to carry water. This drawing was used just has Yen Sid takes the broom from Mickey.

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Original Animation Production Drawing of Mickey Mouse from "Moose Hunters," 1937

Original production drawing of Mickey Mouse from "Moose Hunters," 1937; Graphite, red, brown, yellow, blue, and green pencil on peg hole paper; Numbered 8 lower right; Size - Mickey Mouse: 8 x 7", Sheet 10 x 12"; Unframed.

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"Moose Hunters," 1937 is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen with music by Paul J. Smith. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney), Donald Duck (voiced by Clarence Nash), and Goofy (voiced by Pinto Colvig) on a moose hunting expedition. 

Close up of the Mickey Mouse production drawing.

The short begins with a female moose with blonde curled hair wading through a lake; which turns out to be Donald Duck and Goofy disguised in a moose costume and making a moose call by sounding a horn. Following close behind to the duo is Mickey Mouse walking on stillts, disguised as a shrub, carrying a shotgun, and sounding his own moose call. Goofy's horn call is answered by an actual moose, causing him and Donald to excitedly shout "A moose!" Mickey tells them to "do their stuff," meaning to lure the moose closer to him.

Close up of the production number.

This is a wonderful colored pencil drawing of Mickey Mouse from his first appearance in the short "Moose Hunters," 1937. He is eyes and mouth open, walking on stilts, carrying his gun, and wearing his shrub disguise. As soon as Goofy and Donald exclaim, "A moose," Mickey says "Hotdog, now do your stuff!" This drawing is from that scene.

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