Welcome and thank you for stopping by DisneyMamas.com for this week’s Wordless Wednesday post! Each week we link up with a great group of Disney Bloggers to bring you great Wordless Wednesday posts, all hosted by Deb at Focused on the Magic! Our theme this week is Retro Disney, which I am quite excited to hop through!
In December of last year I mounted a production of Peter Pan at the school where I teach. My love of Disney heavily influenced my design choices throughout the production, and my Peter Pan research board on Pinterest was (and still is) filled with images of Mary Blair’s original concept art for the film, images of the various parts of the attraction, and shots of the Chicken of the Seas restaurant as it appeared in the early days of Disneyland prior to becoming just The Columbia. The final production turned out fantastically, and I am proud to announce that my scenic design for the production was nominated for Best Scenic Design at the 2014 Dallas Summer Musicals High School Musical Theatre Awards (say that 3 times fast). I thought I’d share a bit of my research with you for this Retro Disney blog hop. I can’t personally claim credit for any of these images, but will happily link their sources below should you decide to take a look further.
My design research for Peter Pan, a musical adaptation of the play by Sir James M. Barrie. This design was heavily influenced by the concept art by Mary Blair, created for the animated feature, and by the attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Images in this collage can be credited to the following sources:
Michael Sporn Animation – El Groupo & Mary Blair’s Peter Pan
Gorillas Don’t Blog – Fantasyland Pirate Ship (this blog has several posts on the Fantasyland Pirate Ship if yo are interested)
DisneybyMark – Walt Enjoying Peter Pan
Disney and More – It’s Disneyland’s 57th Anniversary! A Disneyland Tribute with Walt Himself, Part Two
Disney and More – 1955 Article Introducing Disneyland – Part Two: Peter Pan’s Flight Original Design, and More
Want more Retro Disney? Then hop on over to Focused on the Magic to check out other great Wordless Wednesday posts for today.
Awesome shot of Walt, this will always be one of our favorite rides.
Mine too!
What a cool project! Neat to see a glimpse of Disney history and how it influenced you 🙂
Thanks!
Great photos! Love the one of Walt checking out the pirate ship!
Thanks! Me too!
Great post! One of my favorite rides.
Thanks!
Great shots! I love seeing Walt in action on a project.
Me too!