Dancing Mushrooms (Hop Low)

MEDIUM: Original Photostat Model Print
IMAGE SIZE: 22" x 17"
PRODUCTION: Fantasia, "The Nutcracker Suite"
YEAR: 1940
SKU: CCV4599

NOTES: This piece shows signs of light production wear: wrinkling, age-related toning. Due to its size, this piece will be shipped rolled in a tube.

ABOUT THE IMAGE: Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced and released by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. The third Disney animated feature film, it consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies who introduces each segment in live action. 

"The Nutcracker Suite" is the second segment of Fantasia which features a variety of dances, just as in the ballet, but done so by animated fairies, fish, flowers, mushrooms, and leaves.

ABOUT THE MEDIUM: A model sheet is a group of character drawings illustrating different poses and expressions of a cartoon character. Because a number of artists worked on a single cartoon, these sheets were circulated to the animators to give a uniform look and feel to a character throughout a production.