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, unframedImage -- 4.1/8x4in. (10.5x10.2cm.)
Sight -- 9½x13½in. (24x34.3cm.)
Price Realized
- £2,233
- ($3,367)
- 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
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.
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:
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Mickey Mouse: Lonesome Ghosts
Video modified October 18, 2012
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This is my favorite of all the Disney shorts. As a kid I would moon over a still of that very scene with the ghost and wish I could see the film, and only years later did I watch the actual cartoon on DVD, and now I can watch it whenever I want! Isn't modern life somethin'?
ReplyDeleteYes, for many years in the 1970's I waited for theatrical re-releases to see classic Disney features. As for the great Disney shorts, they were almost impossible to come by!
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