{"product_id":"mickey-mouse-original-animation-drawing-mickeys-man-friday-1935","title":"Mickey Mouse — Original Animation Drawing, Mickey's Man Friday (1935)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original production drawing from \u003cem\u003eMickey's Man Friday\u003c\/em\u003e, the 1935 Disney short directed by David Hand and loosely built on \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e: Mickey, shipwrecked on an island, meets the character Friday and turns the wilderness around him into a home. The sheet belongs to the studio's golden age, when Disney draftsmen were consolidating the visual grammar that would carry the character for the following decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExecuted in graphite and coloured pencil, the drawing catches Mickey in one of the short's most inventive passages, using a skull and a fish skeleton to build his shelter. At roughly four by three and a half inches it carries the production number \"49\" at the lower right together with the two registration peg holes that placed it inside the studio's working process — the marks that allowed a drawing to be traced, inked and set against a painted background, and that today stand as the quiet signature of an authentic production piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drawing appears at approximately 3:18 into the film and survives in very good condition, with only a light patina of age and minimal handling wear. It is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity with four security levels. Original Disney drawings of this period, taken from a released short rather than from a later reproduction, sit at the meeting point of animation history and American popular art, and are increasingly pursued by collectors who value documented, one-of-a-kind material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58053280825684,"sku":"379","price":550.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/379-1.png?v=1793382832","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/mickey-mouse-original-animation-drawing-mickeys-man-friday-1935","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}