Treasure Island (1950)

Peter Ellenshaw goes solo for Disney's first entirely live action picture, painting at Denham Studios following the relocation of his mentor Walter Percy Day to Shepperton. These type of shots would become quintessential Ellenshaw and Treasure Island would prove to be his big break going on to head the Walt Disney matte department for over a decade and winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects on the 1965 classic Mary Poppins.

The rare shots below were completed but ultimately were not used in the final cut, the bottom one being an alternative version to the one seen above, the matte seen on screen featuring a differing landscape and more detail including a tree to the left side.