Concept paintings by Mary Blair for Disney’s PETER PAN.
“I forget people after I kill them,” Peter Pan says in PETER & WENDY. Was that in the Disney version?
One of the great “lost movies”: in the 1960s, there was talk of making a live action Peter Pan movie with Audrey Hepburn as Peter Pan, Peter Sellers as Captain Hook, and Hayley Mills as Wendy. The world was robbed of something wonderful there…
Animation art from Disney’s PINOCCHIO (1940).
Title cards of Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Mary Blair art for various Disney films and cartoons. ALICE, SO DEAR TO MY HEART, PETER PAN, again ALICE, SUSIE THE LITTLE DEUCE COUPE, and CINDERELLA. The last two are also from SO DEAR TO MY HEART.
I’ve featured Mary Blair’s work so often it’s hard to keep track of what I’ve posted already, but I’m pretty sure these are new.
Background color concepts from Disney’s ADVENTURES OF THE GUMMI BEARS (1985).
Animation art from Disney’s LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955). The storyboards (image 1) are like illustrations from a children’s book: fully formed, ready to be published. Joe Rinaldi and Bill Peet, masters at their craft—were they even capable of making a bad drawing?
Concept art by Kay Nielsen for the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence from Disney’s FANTASIA (1940).
TRON (1982) pre-production art by Peter Lloyd.
