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Rare storyboard book custom-prepared by the Walt Disney Studio in celebration of the 1946 anthology film Make Mine Music, which was produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures on April 20, 1946. The book contains a total of 10 original concept storyboard drawings accomplished in mixed media on six 5 x 7.25 sheets of artist paper, each featuring a character or narrator from the film’s various segments, which include:
Willie the sperm whale from ‘The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met’; an anthropomorphic Clarinet from ‘After You've Gone’; ballet dancers David Lichine and Tania Riabouchinskaya from ‘Two Silhouettes’; the title baseball player from ‘Casey at the Bat’; the two title characters from ‘Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet’; Grace Martin and Henry Coy from ‘The Martins and the Coys’; two hepcat dancing teens from ‘All the Cats Join In’; a male portrait, ostensibly of Nelson Eddy, who narrated ‘The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met’; and the two title characters from ‘Peter and the Wolf.’
Also included is artwork that curiously depicts legendary railroad engineer Casey Jones for the Disney short film The Brave Engineer, which was released four years later on March 3, 1950. Affixed to the back of the Willie the whale artwork is a printed portrait of Walt Disney, which is annotated in white ink: “Story ‘Boards,’’ from Walt Disney’s ‘Make Mine Music!’” The leather-bound book, 7˝ x 8˝ x 1˝, contains gilt titling and designs to the front cover and spine and includes its original slipcase. In fine condition.
