1966 seems to have been a banner year
for the W. C. Jones Publishing Co. out of Los Angeles, CA. This was the year
they released a slew of licensed lenticular images based on Walt Disney productions.
Lenticular printing is a technology in which an array of magnifying lenses are
used to produce printed images with an illusion of depth, or 3D. One of the
nicest of these W. C. Jones images we have come cross is this 20 cm x 25 cm
example of Peter Pan flying over Captain Hook’s ship! Most of the lenticular
images released by W. C. Jones were postcards, only about 13 cm x 18 cm, and
did not include a plastic frame. The fact that this item has survived with its
frame for more than fifty years, while showing very few signs of wear, is
remarkable!
Peter Pan is a 1953 animated
fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play ‘Peter
Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up’ by J. M. Barrie. It is the 14th Disney
animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953, by RKO
Radio Pictures. Peter Pan was one of Walt Disney's favourite stories and he had intended
for Peter Pan to be his second film after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
However he could not get the rights until several years later, after he came to
an arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, to whom Barrie had given the rights to the play. Peter Pan was praised by most critics during its
initial release, and Peter Pan is today considered one of Disney's
animated classics.
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