Band Concert Season

It's summertime and the season for band concerts. As a special treat, today's outdoor concert will be conducted by Mickey Mouse. We ask that all cell phones be turned off and that no one interrupt by playing extraneous tunes.

Speaking of extraneous toons, there is no Donald Duck cel here. Rather, Donald is painted on the custom-prepared background. This is an unusual enhancement, to say the least.

21 Nov 2005 10 a.m. New York
Animation Art
Auction 13844

3079

A Walt Disney celluloid from “The Band Concert”

1935, the gouache on celluloid depicts Mickey Mouse as the conductor who gets very irate when Donald Duck continually interrupts the William Tell concert by playing "Turkey in the Straw" with his fife. Each time Mickey Mouse takes Donald’s fife, he takes another fife from his sleeve, the full celluloid is applied to a hand-prepared background of Donald Duck and the band’s platform, there is a 1/2 inch slit in cel just above Mickey's head, matted and framed. 
8 1/2 x 10 1/2in 

The Band Concert was Mickey Mouse’s first color short film. This scene is illustrated in “The Fifty Greatest Cartoons” on page 42.

Sold for US$ 2,350 inc. premium

A Walt Disney Studios celluloid from “The Band Concert” (1935) on hand-prepared background

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Mickey Mouse & Friends - 

The Band Concert (1935)

Note:  My last Disney post appeared here. My previous post on "The Band Concert" can be found here.

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