Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

WALT DISNEY STUDIO
Fun and Fancy Free (1947) 
original production animation drawing
pencil on untrimmed animation sheet, image size: 7.25" x 9.25"

This expressive original rough animation drawing of Willie the Giant was created by a Disney animator in development of a scene in the Mickey and the Beanstalk segment, directed by Bill Roberts and Hamilton Luske, of the animated feature film. The scene appears during Willie's conversation with Mickey Mouse; when the latter challenges Willie to use his "magic wordies" and turn himself into a fly, the giant responds: "Ok, a teeny, weeny fly...with pink wings." John Lounsbery, one of Walt Disney's master animators known as his Nine Old Men, supervised the animation of Willie, and the character was voiced by veteran comic actor Billy Gilbert. The animator wrote the designation "39" at lower right to indicate this original's place in the scene.