THIS is a 1980s PHOTOCOPY of a MODEL SHEET from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1947 ART.
THIS is A PHOTOCOPY of ANIMATION ART of a MODEL SHEET from DISNEY's THE GREMLINS
CHARACTER is WIDGET BABY NEST
The Gremlins was Dahl’s very first book for children.
The story was originally intended for production as an animated film by Walt Disney, but the film was dropped before it was completed.
Disney did, however, still publish the book that had been created as a tie-in with the movie’s release.
Only around 50,000 copies were printed worldwide, therefore copies of it are extremely rare.
During pre-production for the film, Disney was contacted by another RAF pilot, Douglas Bisgood, who claimed that Dahl had taken most of the Gremlin terminology from him without his permission.
The two had met during Dahl’s journey to the US and had swapped stories of Gremlins onboard the ship.
Bisgood claimed that “The names of Fifinella, Widget and Flippertygibbet are my own private property.” (Bisgood’s mother had gone by the nickname Fifinella within her family.)
Rather than monetary compensation, Bisgood was keen to be credited in the film. Dahl and Disney tried to placate him by pointing out that all proceeds were being donated to the RAF Benevolent Fund, and in the end the film was never made anyway so Bisgood let the matter drop.
The Gremlins are characters created by Disney and Roald Dahl for a film project in the 1940s that never saw production.
However, they would still see light in the form of military insignia, a Disney illustrated storybook of Roald Dahl's original story and various comic book appearances throughout the war.
Since then, the Gremlins have appeared in the 2008 Return of the Gremlins comic book miniseries from Dark Horse comics, a reprint of the original storybook and the Epic Mickey video games.
The Gremlins is a children's book written by British author Roald Dahl and published in 1943.
In writing the book, Dahl draws on his own experience as a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War.
The story's principal character Gus, an RAF pilot, has his Hawker Hurricane destroyed over the English Channel by a gremlin—mischievous creatures who were part of RAF folklore.
As they parachute into the water, Gus convinces the gremlins to join forces against a common enemy; Hitler and the Nazis.
It was Dahl's first book and was written for Walt Disney Productions, in anticipation of a feature-length animated film that was never made.
With Dahl's assistance, a series of gremlin characters were developed, and while pre-production had begun, the film project was eventually abandoned, in part because the studio could not establish the precise rights of the "gremlin" story, and in part because the British Air Ministry was heavily involved in the production because Dahl, who was on leave from his wartime Washington posting, insisted on final approval of script and production.
The story concerns mischievous mythical creatures, the gremlins of the title, often invoked by Royal Air Force pilots as an explanation of mechanical troubles and mishaps.
In Dahl's book, the gremlins' motivation for sabotaging British aircraft is revenge of the destruction of their forest home, which was razed to make way for an aircraft factory.
The principal character in the book, Gus, has his Hawker Hurricane fighter destroyed over the English Channel by a gremlin during the Battle of Britain, but is able to convince the gremlins as they parachute into the water that they should join forces against a common enemy, Hitler and the Nazis, rather than fight each other.
Eventually, the gremlins are re-trained by the Royal Air Force to repair rather than sabotage aircraft, and restore Gus to active flight status after a particularly severe crash.
The book also contains picturesque details about the ordinary lives of gremlins: baby gremlins, for instance, are known as widgets, and females as fifinellas, a name taken from the great "flying" filly racehorse Fifinella, that won both the Epsom Derby and Epsom Oaks in 1916, the year Dahl was born.
PHOTOCOPY Model sheet features the GREMLINS
THIS is a 1980s PHOTO COPY MODEL SHEET from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1940s ART.
Item in GOOD Vintage CONDITION but does have a 3 hole punch from being in a Research File
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THIS is a 1980s PHOTO COPY from DISNEY ANIMATION and NOT VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1940s ART.