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Goliath II

Here’s a wonderful short film from Disney that went completely under my radar until learning and reading more about storyboard man Bill Peet. It is a beautiful looking piece which was used to test the xerox process that would then be adopted for there full feature films, an era of Disney I particularly love!




You might recognise several elements from this film reused in the jungle book however those sequences came from this picture first, not the other way around. Also the elements with the crocodile are of course reused from Peter Pan.

I have always had no issue with Disney animation reusing work like this, which I might talk about more in depth in a later post, but I’ve always felt was done minimally and tastefully.

Bill wrote the story as an illustrated childrens book, a career he was trying to transition into and eventually became incredibly prolific in with over 35 titles under his belt.





As a side note Bill Peet wrote a fantastic autobiography in an illustrated format that is a wonderful read and gives a lot of insight into his time at Disney. I really recommend it!

He’s a photo of him as a young man at the studio.


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