Disney 1940 Fantasia Animation Production Art of Tyrannosaurus Rex & Stegosaurus

Description

Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus Production Art from . . .
Disney's Original "Fantasia" (1940, animated film)
Shown in the Abstract Credits Sequence
for
The Rite of Spring
Part
From the Estate of Disney Artist,
T. Hee
Original Disney animation art shown at the end of some of the final versions of Disney's "Fantasia" (1940), during the credits sequence for its "The Right of Spring" part. In that sequence, credits ran over an abstract art background created especially for "The Right of Spring" on which various small prehistoric images would start near the bottom of the screen and move upward at various speeds in subsequent frames until going off the top and out of the picture. The credit lines were superimposed on all of that. Though small, this animation artwork with its Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus in the middle, and Ankylosaurus below right, was the main moving background image. After the others had starting, it had begun moving from the bottom reaching the top of screen by the time the credits had ended, but still remained the final prehistoric image on the abstract background, then disappeared -- a quite spectacular reinforcement of the end of the dinosaurs.
The concept of this dramatic effect of dinosaurs disappearing forever was carried forward to Disney's 1957 release, "Mars and Beyond," directed by Ward Kimball, which contains a modified segment of Fantasia's "The Right of Spring," including a similar image to that of the animation art offered here. However, the "Mars and Behind" version is of a larger T-Rex with an Ankylosaurus behind and Triceratops below, not to dissimilar in concept to the 1940 "Fantasia" image of a T-Rex with Stegosaurus behind and Ankylosaurus below. The "Mars and Behind" images can be seen in Part 3 of 6 @ 5:11 minutes on YouTube. You can identify the Ankylosaurus in both images by the bulge in its tail.
"The Right of Spring" artwork here was made intentionally small (much smaller than its 1957 counterpart), as a colored image on a 3" x 4" field drawn in the design and colors of the much larger "Fantasia" abstract background it would traverse. A hand-painted black border surrounds that artwork on the same sheet of art paper. Total size is about 6 x 6 inches. "Mars and Beyond" did not show the abstract images of the dinosaurs working their way up through the frames over time. Instead, in "Mars and Beyond" that movement was replaced with other animated images of dinosaurs moving up and down to ultimately culminate in a very quick view of a full frame size image similar to the small abstract art of the original. In "Mars and Beyond," when the moment of the similar image appears, it quickly transforms into dinosaur skeletons, then the 1957 film moves on. The 17 years difference in release dates perhaps gave "Mars and Beyond" director Ward Kimball the opportunity of applying Walt Disney's original desire to expand the "Fantasia" concept with new releases.
Our image is painted on construction paper in oils. The last scan is a blow-up in high resolution so that you can see how it was painted. We have not yet finally determined the medium in which its black frame was done. It initially appeared that it might be black ink, but on closer examination it has the appearance of being painted in oils. The black frame has black pencil writing on it reading "DISSORTION (VERT.)" and "X DISS," plus writing in Orange of "2.5G" at the bottom. The number "4" appears in its upper left corner. The black color of its "frame" would become a clear transparency in a film's negative, which then would let the details of images of other negatives show through the transparency during the print making process.
We acquired this animation artwork nearly 20 years ago. It comes from the Estate of Disney animation artist, T. Hee. He worked on "Fantasia" but left Disney after the strike, but returned twice, from 1940-1946 and again from 1958 to 1961. He was not working at Disney at the time of the making of the 1957 "Mars and Beyond" release.
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