Lost Sleeping Beauty Art Comes Home
"A Japanese university plans to return about 250 pieces of original animation art to the Walt Disney Company that were mislaid in storage after traveling to Japan nearly five decades ago.To read the rest of Charles Solomon's article, click here.
Disney said that the art — cels, backgrounds, preliminary paintings and storyboard sketches — was part of a collection that was handpicked by Walt Disney himself. It was sent to Japan in 1960 for a touring exhibition timed to the opening of the film 'Sleeping Beauty.' The exhibition opened at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo in May of that year and traveled to 16 other stores throughout Japan."
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posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
4:28 AM
1 Comments:
I really want to see those eyvind earle stages. I used to have a docmentary on vhs called Disney: The Fairy Tale Years, with footage of Earle painting a SB background. I watched that bit over and over. Since lost the tape, and nobody's heard of the documentary. Was made for the bbc by Brian Skeet and featured interviews with lots of the nine old dudes, and canemaker etc etc.
The footage can also be seen on the 4 artists paint a tree documentary on youtube.
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