MEDIUM: Original Concept Drawing - Graphite on Paper
IMAGE SIZE: 15.5" x 12.5" 
PRODUCTION: Fantasia, "The Rite of Spring" (1940)
SKU: CCV5228

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 Rite of Spring" is the fourth segment of Fantasia which features a visual history of the Earth's beginnings depicted to sections of the ballet score. The sequence progresses from the planet's formation to the first living creatures, followed by the reign and extinction of the dinosaurs.

ABOUT THE MEDIUM: In the development of an animated picture, concept drawings represent the translation of initial character or environment designs into graphic form.