(Winsor McCay, 1914) Pair of original production drawings featuring Gertie from Gertie the Dinosaur: the first showing her poking her head out from her cave, and the second showing her full body as she bends over the cliff to take a drink of water. Accomplished in ink on individual sheets of rice paper, marked "24" and "180," and affixed to 9.25 x 7.25 cardstock mounts. In overall fine condition, with small areas of edge paper loss and show-through from adhesive at edges.Gertie the Dinosaur was Winsor McCay's first piece of animation with detailed backgrounds, and this pair of drawings represent the beginning and end of the cartoon's plot: Gertie emerges from the cave, eats the tree in the foreground and does some tricks, then drinks the lake dry after growing tired from all of her activities. In the grand finale, McCay draws himself into the scene and rides the dinosaur off-screen, both of them taking bows along the way. McCay's work was not only pioneering—he innovated techniques such as using keyframes, registration marks, and tracing paper—but it also demonstrated the viability of his craft. Gertie became the first animated film to see commercial success, encouraging studios to further pursue animation during its infancy. A fantastic and extremely rare pairing of production drawings from a landmark film.Format: Production drawings