Stills from the Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men often reveal the wonderful attention to detail by Walt Disney’s art and design department, led by Carmen Dillon. It is hard to believe this scene, like many, were filmed on one of the huge sound stages at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire.
In this image we see a blindfolded Sheriff (Peter Finch) being led into Robin Hood’s (Richard Todd) camp in Sherwood Forest.
The Sheriff in Robin’s Camp
ReplyDeleteThe Studio sets at Denham always impress me - and this is one of the biggest and best. The detail was such that even the leaves on the trees fluttered in the wind - as they did in the scene on the bridge with Little John - that was equally impressive.
ReplyDeleteThe set in your picture was over 200 ft wide according to Ken Annakin - and he should know. At that time only Denham could accommodate such scale I would have thought.