Object Details
- Walt Disney Studios
- Description
- Reproduction animation cel made for a 1988 celebration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark Disney animated short film Steamboat Willie. The cel features a drawing of Mickey Mouse being sprayed with water, a scene from the film, in black ink on a transparent cellulose acetate background. Steamboat Willie is a landmark in the history of animation because it was the first Mickey Mouse film released as well as the first animated film with synchronized sound.
- A celluloid (or cel) is a transparent sheet used in the process of hand-drawn animation. Characters were drawn on cels and superimposed on a fixed background image to reduce the number of reproductions necessary to produce an animation. The Little Mermaid was the last Disney feature film to use this hand-drawn method of animation. Starting with the 1990 feature film The Rescuers Down Under, Walt Disney Animation Studios began using a digital method of animation known as the Disney Computer Animation Production System (CAPS).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- The Walt Disney Company
- ca 1988
- ID Number
- 1988.0434.01
- accession number
- 1988.0434
- catalog number
- 1988.0434.01
- Object Name
- cel, animation
- Physical Description
- celluloid (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 1/2 in x 16 in; 31.75 cm x 40.64 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Burbank
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Movie Collection
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- Motion Pictures
- Subject
- Animation
- Mickey Mouse
- Record ID
- nmah_683736
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-023b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
