Animation Artifacts &Disney &Story & Storyboards 16 Jun 2008 07:49 am
Alice Storyboards Pt 2
- Last week I presented the first of three photographed storyboards from the Disney feature, Alice In Wonderland. This is a sequence where Alice meets up with the rabbit at his house, eats a cookie and grows larger than the house. It’s an excellent adaptation of the sequence from the original Carroll book, and gives that extraordinary image of the cottage with two enormous feet protruding.
There was a live-action star-studded Alice on tv this weekend which tried hard to create some magic. I watched this sequence from the story and found it quite lacking in comparison to what they did here. As might have been expected.
I offer the board in its full size. Then I edit the rows into sections so that I can post them as large as possible. Thanks to the loan from John Canemaker these boards are a treasure to view.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
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on 16 Jun 2008 at 1:10 pm 1.Eric Noble said …
Excellent boards. Do you know who did them?
on 16 Jun 2008 at 1:39 pm 2.Michael said …
As I said last week, we’re not sure who did the boards, but John and I both guessed at Joe Rinaldi at the same time. So, that, for now, is our best shot.
If anyone out there knows better (and I assume there is someone), please leave a comment.
on 16 Jun 2008 at 9:02 pm 3.Michael J. Ruocco said …
This board definitely looks like Rinaldi’s handiwork. I’ve seen snippet’s of his boards from Peter Pan & they’re strikingly similar to these. His style is very much like Bill Peet’s in some cases, so I can see how it would be a bit difficult to pinpoint who did what.
on 17 Jun 2008 at 7:00 pm 4.Eddie Fitzgerald said …
Holy Mackeral! Thanks much for putting this up…I can’t wait to study it!
on 02 Apr 2010 at 7:31 am 5.Steven Hartley said …
I think Bill Peet did those boards, because to me I think its more of his style and his drawings are very simaliar to the boards.
Anyway, very interesting boards and and wonderful illustrations by either Joe Rinaldi or Bill Peet or any other storyboard artists with a simaliar style to Rinaldi and Peet.
on 15 Sep 2010 at 12:38 pm 6.Melinda Griffith said …
I have a complete copy of the storyboard- the “Matte Composite”- including black and white sketches and camera directions for each scene of the original Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. I would be happy to photograph a few pages and let you take a look at it to tell me what you think. It looks similiar to the storyboard you have pictured but is in more detail, the drawings more finished, and complied into 3-peg book form (like a huge manuscript). Let me know if interested.