Five background layouts by the endlessly inventive Maurice Noble for the Chuck Jones-directed “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”, 1970. Colored pencil, graphite, marking pen, and gouache on 12 field MGM animation paper. The half-hour animated television* special won a Peabody Award for excellence in children’s programming.
*Please note the shape of the television screen in drawings 1 and 3.
P.S. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”