The Brave Engineer Stat Model Sheet: Casey Jones

Casey Jones

MEDIUM: Original Photostat Model Sheet
IMAGE SIZE: 14" x 11"
PRODUCTION: The Brave Engineer, 1941
SKU: CCV6516

NOTES: Moderate production wear: horizontal and vertical creases. This piece has been hand-signed in graphite by Dorothy Strebe, a Disney writer and editor. This model sheet comes from the archive of Disney layout artist and art director Ken O'Connor.

ABOUT THE IMAGE: The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling of the story related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert.

NOTES: "" has been hand-written in graphite in the upper right corner. This piece shows signs of moderate production wear: horizontal and vertical creases.

ABOUT THE MEDIUM: A model sheet is a group of character drawings illustrating different poses and expressions of a cartoon character. Because a number of artists worked on a single cartoon, these sheets were circulated to the animators to give a uniform look and feel to a character throughout a production.