Walt Disney Studios

A French movie poster for Walt Disney's Silly Symphony.

• Walt Disney Studios.
• RKO Radio Films.
• Stock poster.
• To-date this is believed to be the only known surviving example.
• Linen backed.
• This work is presented unframed.

This poster was purchased in 1995 and has been in a private collection since that time. This magical poster depicts many of the characters from Disney's Silly Symphony short cartoons, including several images of Mickey and Mini, Donald Duck, Goofy, Three Little Pigs, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, together with Max Hare. In the 1930s it was usual for French cinemas to allocate a certain time for their features. This would enable them to choose a number of short films to be shown before the main feature. This is a stock poster, which enabled the individual cinemas to add their own text in the blank box in the middle of the piece to advertise what would be shown. In the case of this particular poster the program was forty minutes with Mickey, color animation - how to make animated drawings, Donald's Nephew, The Good and the Bad and Pretty Little Elves.