Animation Backgrounds

In 1948, even Disney felt the inclination towards a more modern look, apparent in this digitally recreated B/G art from the "Once Upon ...

Here's another set of background art from PECOS BILL. I am hitting the road - back on the concert circuit, headed for Florida. I'm n...

PECOS BILL combined great elements: country music, the Old West and Disney's cartoon style. The first image (above) is a digitally creat...

From "TREES," a long shot, closer with lighting and color shifts, and a recreated pan of... a tree.

Color me sentimental and old-fashioned... but this segment moves me very deeply. The classic Joyce Kilmer poem TREES received a beautiful mu...

Here is the title card and two very stylish B/Gs from the BUMBLE BOOGIE sequence in MELODY TIME. Terrific, eh?

These recreated backgrounds are from MELODY TIME (1948). The first two are unmistakably Mary Blair. The music-staff-themed B/G is a very dif...