Featuring 1,500 images from the “Golden Age of Animation,”this volume covers each of the major animated features made during Walt’s lifetime as well as lesser-known experimental short films, episodic musical films, and unfinished projects. Rare behind-the-scenes photos, story sketches, and cel setups of famous film scenes are included in this publication which was produced with unprecedented access to the Walt Disney Archives and Disney’s famous Animation Research Library.
Art Edition, limited to 2,500 copies, with facsimiles of Fantasia storyboard sketches and portfolio of five cel setups from the Silly Symphonies.
A Collector’s Edition of Walt Disney’s animation masterworks
This TASCHEN Collector’s Edition presents the first volume of one of the most expansive illustrated publications on Disney animation. In it, some 1,500 images as well as top essays by eminent Disney experts take us to the beating heart of the studio’s “Golden Age of Animation,” tracing Disney’s complete animation journey from the silent film era, through his first full-length feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the pioneering artistic experiment Fantasia (1940), right up to his last masterpieces Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) and The Jungle Book (1967).
The book brings focus to each of the major animated features made during Walt’s lifetime, including Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians, without forgetting the experimental short films of the Silly Symphonies series, underappreciated episodic musical films such as Make Mine Music and Melody Time, and many unfinished projects, such as proposed sequels to Fantasia or a homage to Davy Crockett by painter Thomas Hart Benton.
