Cinderella (Silly Symphony)

Seventeen years prior to their 1950 feature film version, Walt Disney Productions developed a possible short film version of Cinderella that was to have been a part of the Silly Symphonies series. Burt Gillett was attached to direct. 

Gag suggestions

Along with a story treatment, Walt sent a list of suggested opportunities for gags around the studio in order to help his animators brainstorm them. 

Suggestons on the list included: 

• Methods of Cinderella helping her stepfamily dress.
• Different objects being used as wheels for the pumpkin coach.
• Objects being used as an imaginary prince by Cinderella in pantomine.
• Methods of the stepsisters hiding Cinderella from the Prince.
• Methods by which Cinderella's animal friends reveal where she is hidden
• Methods of the stepsisters trying to cram their feet into the slipper.
• Different settings and or backgrounds for Cinderella and the prince's waltz.

A complete collection of submitted gag ideas was assembled on December 14, 1933.

Two of the suggested slipper gags (the slipper appearing to fit one stepsister until her dress is lifted, revealing that it only goes over her toes and one stepsister bending her foot into an arch so that it will fit) ended up being used in the 1950 film.

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