OLD MACDONALD DUCK (Disney, 1941)

First watch the cartoon (Thanks, YouTube!)Now look at the B/G art...

GRIN AND BEAR IT part two

The Stockings Are Hung By The ChimneyWith Care

Re-created pan B/G from THE TOY TINKERERS

IN A NUTSHELL (1949)

Here's the title card and a digitally recontructed pan background from IN A NUTSHELL (1949).Disney sure makes perfection look easy!

How to Have an Accident in the Home (1956)

It's no secret I love Disney animation. Even Disney's TV animation from the 1950s was beautifully conceived and rendered, and often rife with suburban California detail. Such is the case with "How to Have an Accident in the Home" (1956). Here's the opening Background art. Notice the house with the roof blown off!Next, a wonderful "bird's eye view" pan B/G:Street scenes:The proverbial white picket

GRAND CANYONSCOPE

With Disney's release of THE CHRONOLOGICAL DONALD Volume 4, we have available a wealth of new material.Here is the first set of background art, from GRAND CANYONESQUE, by Eyvind Earle. In Cinemascope!

THE FLYING SQUIRREL

Shadow Begone!

Recently I posted a batch of B/G art from the 1946 Disney short CLOWN OF THE JUNGLE. There was a particular background in which I was able to remove the characters, but one shadow never went away.Well, guess what? I was delighted to receive by email that same background, with hand-painted retouching (I assume via Photoshop), shared by artist Peter Moehrle! He is a truly master at animation

DONALD'S VACATION

Here's a perfect cartoon for the week of July 4th - DONALD'S VACATION (1940). Above is the original theatrical release poster. Below, the cartoon's title card:The cartoon has lavish background art. Disney artists had reached their peak - SNOW WHITE and PINOCCHIO were done, FANTASIA was in production. It's astonishing this level of artwork was created for a short!DONALD'S VACATION had one of the

DONALD'S HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Here's the opening title and utopian suburbian CA neighborhood that opens DONALD'S HAPPY BIRTHDAY.Love this layout, especially the threehouse!

AT HOME WITH DONALD DUCK (1956)

This background art is from interstitial material specially created for one of the early Disneyland TV shows, AT HOME WITH DONALD DUCK (1956). I'd never seen this before tonight. So I enjoyed seeing it, finally, as well as digitally recreating its B/G art. I hope you enjoy it too!

GRIN AND BEAR IT (1954)