Hair Raising Gnome

Here’s a cute gag from Disney’s Santa’s Workshop (1932), where gnomes stand at Ford-like assembly lines and do their little job to put together toys for kids.

One of them frightens a little girl doll with a spider to enable her to get curly hair.



The scene was animated by Ben Sharpsteen. We can thank The Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers for that. The April 1933 included the photos below as part of an article on how cartoons were made.



The article was written by Bill Garity, who was picked up from the Disney discard pile by Walter Lantz. You can read it at archive.org.