"Lonesome Ghosts" (1937)

What's wrong with this picture, or rather this cel, which was sold at Christie's South Kensington back in 2000? For the answer, see below.

Lot Description

Walt Disney Studios 

Lonesome Ghosts, 1937

Mickey hunts for ghosts with a shotgun, gouache on trimmed celluloid, applied to full celluloid, applied to a colour xerox background, unframed
Image -- 4.1/8x4in. (10.5x10.2cm.)
Sight -- 9½x13½in. (24x34.3cm.)

Price Realized 

• £2,233
• Estimate

£2,000 - £2,500
• ($3,016 - $3,770)

Sale Information

Sale 8779 
Animation Art, Contemporary Toys and Souvenirs 
5 June 2000
London, South Kensington

Special Notice:  VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

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This celluloid from Walt Disney's classic short "Lonesome Ghosts" (1937) shows Mickey Mouse in his ghost-hunting role. He shared the business with Donald Duck and Goofy. It's a nice image, but it doesn't make any sense to show him in front of his place of business when he should be trying to hunt ghosts in a haunted house. In other words, the Xerox color background is from the right short but the wrong scene. Here's the correct setting:

http://johnrozum.blogspot.com/2010/10/31-days-of-halloween-day-2.html

Image added December 25, 2011
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/animation_ecstasy/10843/

Walt Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts" (1937)

Video modified August 5, 2013

August 5, 2013 Update:  So here is how this lot was assembled:

Ajax Ghost Exterminators establishing shot from Walt Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts" (1937), Video Still 1:18

Image added August 5, 2013

The present lot consists a Xerox background from the shot above and a cel of Mickey from the frame below.

Mickey Mouse hunting ghosts in Walt Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts" (1937), Video Still 3:20

Image added August 5, 2013

Note:  My last Disney post is here, sort of.

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