A stunning story sketch by Mel Shaw for the unproduced Disney project The Little Broomstick. The story is based on the 1971 childrens' novel by author Mary Steward. Woolie Reitherman and Mel Shaw worked on a treatment during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Reitherman family gifted me this beautiful piece of art.
When I started at Disney in August of 1980, there were still "broomstick" storyboards floating around the hallways of the animation building. Of course I was very intrigued by the idea for this proposed project. To be honest, anything Mel Shaw sketched stimulated your imagination.
Here is the Wikipedia link to Mary Steward who died in 2014, aged 97:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stewart_(novelist)
