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
- 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: |
| http://johnrozum.blogspot.com/2010/10/31-days-of-halloween-day-2.html |
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| 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:
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Ajax Ghost Exterminators establishing shot from Walt Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts" (1937), Video Still 1:18
Image added August 5, 2013
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| The present lot consists a Xerox background from the shot above and a cel of Mickey from the frame below. |
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Mickey Mouse hunting ghosts in Walt Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts" (1937), Video Still 3:20
Image added August 5, 2013
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