Before Disney was a global empire, it was a simple studio with pencils, paint, and animators with ideas that changed the industry forever.

Long before computer animation, the beloved cartoon classics were created painstakingly by hand. Walt Disney himself and the animators spent hours sketching characters, painting film cells, and using animals, models and themselves for reference. There was even one scene in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” of the dwarfs eating soup that took a year and a half for one animator to create. In the end it was cut from the final film.

Go back in time and see the very first artists of Disney at work.