"Alice In Wonderland on film, the Walt Disney animators"

Film and TV productions across the years

1951 - THE WALT DISNEY ANIMATED FILM

Marc Davis, one of Disneys' chief animators, works on an 'Alice' sequence watched by a colleague.

This production cel from the film is signed by Marc Davis and depicts Alice receiving her 'Un-birthday' cake.

A character can be drawn by several different artists during the course of making an animated film, so all of the characters have a model sheet which acts as a reference document. This helps the style and proportions of the drawings in each 'cel' to remain constant throughout the film.

The legendary Ward Kimball working on the Mad Hatter drawings watched by a relaxed Walt Disney.

Note the Alice model sheet at the back of Ward Kimball's desk. It's the one pictured here.

High level 'Alice' conference at the studios. Pictured are Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, Walt Disney and Ed Penner.

More artist's signatures on this Alice production drawing.

he production drawings pictured would probably be done by a senior artist in pencil

and then traced, cleaned up, coloured and used as "key frames", with a less senior artist drawing the in-between frames. Twelve frames are needed for every second of onscreen time. Each frame is photographed twice to provide the 24 frames per second rate needed to simulate natural movement.

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