Captain Hook

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Drawing
IMAGE SIZE: 12.5" x 15.5 
YEAR: 1953
SKU: CCV1961

ABOUT THE IMAGE:  This final drawing of Captain Hook was created by a Disney animator in the production of the animated feature, and a cel painting was made directly from it. This scene appears in the climactic struggle between Hook and Peter Pan aboard the pirate's ship. The pirate pursues Peter Pan into the rigging, daring Peter to face him: "Ha ha ha, you wouldn’t dare fight old Hook man to man. You’d fly away like a cowardly sparrow." Their duel on one of the ship's spars spells the end of Captain Hook—at least for the moment—for at the fight's climax he plunges into the sea to be pursued by a very hungry crocodile.

This is the villainous Captain Hook, wielding his sword, narrowly focused on bringing Peter Pan to close quarters. Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas wrote of Captain Hook in The Disney Villain—"His strength was in his scheming, for that type of insidious planning showed he was thinking and the thought process is the animator's way of giving life to the character."

ABOUT THE MEDIUM: Original Production Drawings are one-of-a-kind pieces of art that were used in the creation of an animated film or television show. Each has been hand-drawn by studio artists!