Mickey Mouse

MEDIUM: Original Production Cel on Printed Background with Art Corner
IMAGE SIZE: 12" x 9"
PRODUCTION: Wonderful World of Color, "Tricks of Our Trade" (1957)
SKU: CCV5951

ABOUT THE IMAGE: "He can turn so that we see all sides of him. There's nothing flat about him." Walt Disney detailed technological and artistic improvements in animation in "Tricks of Our Trade", an episode of the Disneyland anthology series that released on 2/13/1957, and covered everything from special effects to the studio's use of the multiplane camera. Mickey Mouse was one of the examples he used when showcasing more fluid animation and the mouse is full figure in the Art Corner production cel in this lot, centered on the hand-painted and hand-inked. He measures roughly 4.75'' x 5.5'' appears at around 19:19 as the narrator describes how Mickey can appear closer or further away and even spin 360 degrees.

The cel was originally sold at Disneyland's Art Corner store in Tomorrowland, which sold original cels and production art from 1955 to 1966.

ABOUT THE MEDIUM: Original production cels are one-of-a-kind pieces of art that were used in the creation of an animated film or television show. Each has been hand-painted by studio artists on a piece of celluloid acetate, and has been photographed over a background painting to create a frame of the finished production.