PINOCCHIO LIMITED EDITION Hand-painted cel, including autograph of Ward Kimball

Description

This is a limited-edition of 500 hand-painted character cel set-ups from Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature film Pinocchio. In addition, it features a matted autograph of legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball. It is framed and in pristine condition!
It is one of
a series of selected limited-edition, hand-painted recreations of original artwork from Disney animated films.
Disney artists have recreated the artwork from Pinocchio using traditional animation techniques. The original animation drawings were
transferred to acetate cels by a special six-step xerographic process. The cels were also enhanced with hand-inked lines. Artists of the
Walt Disney Studios Ink and Paint Department then hand painted each of the cels in the edition with Disney-approved acrylic colors.
The background scene accompanying this cel has been faithfully recreated by a Disney background artist, who used original background
paintings, sketches, and frames from the film as references. The resulting artwork has been lithographically printed on premium-quality
paper by Color Service, Inc. of Monterey Park, California.
The Disney Animation Research Library maintains the original animation drawings and hand-painted background. Conforming to the
practice of fine-art printing, the film used to create the background was destroyed when the edition was completed.
Published by Disney Art Editions in 1994, this is #101/500.
This recreated cel set-up is from Sequence 10.5,
Scene 10.1 of Pinocchio: the family is reunited when Pinocchio finally finds Geppetto inside
the belly of Monstro.
Dimensions: 21.5"w x 21"h