Mickey Mouse The Castaway (2 of 2)
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse Ltd.
Category
Photographs
Date
1930 - 1935
Materials
Glass, Paper, Transparent film
Measurements
34 x 133 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520820.8
Summary
Black and white lantern slides from drawings, Mickey Mouse The Castaway (2 of 2). Four circular pictures (24mm diameter) on the slide, with a red paper border. 1st picture: Mickey seated at a piano with a large monkey 2nd picture: Lion swallowing tree with Mickey looking on 3rd picture: Split into two views with Mickey at water's edge with crocodile and lion in persuit 4th picture: Lion swallowed by crocodile in water and Mickey is stood on turtle The black and white images are printed on a thin sheet of film, the black mask is made of paper with punched holes. Film and paper mask are mounted between two glasses and the edges are bound with a strip of red gummed paper. The British Ensign Ltd produced a magic lantern and slides, based on the early Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse Ltd., illustrator Ensign Limited, manufacturer