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The comment on imgur that mentions Hook being shaved gave me enough information to find this scene on Youtube
. The punchline is different, but it does look like the concept art might be for an earlier version of the same scene.
I think you may be right that the pics you shared are from an early version of Disney's Peter Pan. There is a scene where Captain Hook has a headache after nearly being eaten by the croc and is sick in his chair with blankets wrapped around him and a thermometer. In the movie Smee is trying to make him feel better but drops a kettle on his head/foot and makes things worse. Looks like this could be from an earlier version where a seagull makes a nest in the blankets and lays an egg on Hook's head. If so it was deleted from the final version. So "mama sea gull" is a deleted Disney character!
I always love seeing early art. It sounds like you inherited some sweet stuff! Post the David Gnome stuff sometime.
Thank you so much for replying! I didn't know anyone had because it wasn't sent to my email. I watched the link and you are right, it looks like these sketches are from the movie after all.
That's a hell of an acquisition. I can't even begin to imagine the value. Congrats.
I recently inherited a box of original animation cels and production art from an old neighbor whose father was an animator for many classic films and ads from WWII to about the mid nineties when he died. I'm an art teacher so my neighbor thought I'd like to have it. She died last month.
Most of it is labeled and very awesome, including model sheet paper from Felix the Cat and cels and model sheets from "David the Gnome" of the trolls, which is so cool.
But there is one folder with stuff I can't place. It's very old and appears mostly to be reproductions and maybe a few old pencil or charcoal sketches. It's labeled "Disney" in faded ink. I didn't think my neighbor's dad worked for Disney as I thought she would have mentioned it, but maybe he did at some point or maybe this is from someone else. I'm very, very curious to know what this is from.
I'm posting a link to some scans: http://imgur.com/gallery/03E3m7I
The first pages is from a model sheet of "mama gull" and her nest. But what really interested me is the next page, which is a mustached man who looks very much like a Disney Captain Hook. It looks like the sea gull made her nest and laid an egg on Hook's head while he was asleep in bed.
Does anyone know if this is true Disney production art? It's mostly reproductions, but would still be so cool if this was from Disney studios at one point. The man looks so much like the Disney Cap. Hook and someone online pointed out that the style matches an early Cap. Hook model sheet from the early 40s, which is when Roger would have been working as an animator. I haven't seen Peter Pan in years but don't remember this scene, so maybe it's from something else or maybe an old Peter Pan commercial or sequel cartoon. However I tried to google Peter Pan and found the book and play have a character called the Never Bird who has a nest, so I'm wondering if this is art from a deleted scene with the Never Bird.
Does anyone have any clues or know of an animation site or collectors site that could identify this art for me? Thanks!