NEW YORK, NY.- Just as the panto season gets into full swing, original Disney Studio drawings for the ground-breaking 1937 film Snow White have come up for auction.

Swann Auction Galleries will offer a lovingly and meticulously compiled scrapbook, thought to have been owned by Walt Disney Studios inker Ingeborg Willy, at their Illustration Art sale in New York on December 14 – within days of the 80th anniversary of the film’s premiere.

Containing 20 original animation drawings featuring Snow White, the Dwarfs, and several woodland creatures, the scrapbook also includes a single page of Director’s notes titled ‘Special Notes to EFX’ thought to be in Walt Disney’s hand.

Eighteen of the drawings are graphite and coloured pencil on paper, the remaining in ink on celluloid.

Other ephemera accompanying the lot includes two used tickets dated December 24, 1937 for the film’s premiere run at The Carthay Circle Theater.

Records indicate that Willy was employed at Disney Studios from November 23, 1936 to November 26, 1941. In 2012 it was announced that a similar scrapbook owned by Ingeborg Willy was purchased by the Walt Disney Family Museum from The Robert Cowan Collection.

The estimate is $7,000 to $10,000.