Ursula animation cel from <i>The Little Mermaid</i>
date: label: date made
content: around 1988
name: label: producer
content: Disney, Walt
notes: label: Description
content: Hand-painted animation cell of Ursula, Flotsam, and Jetsam from <i>The Little Mermaid</i>. With her back to the audience, Ursula's arms are stretched out to her sides, and she is looking over her right shoulder, revealing her profile. This film is a cinematic adaption of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
label: Description
content: The character, drawn by Disney Studios artist-animator Ruben Aquino, is a cecaelia or half woman, half octopus, and is loosely patterned after Divine, the larger-than-life female impersonator of John Waters films. Comedienne Pat Carroll voiced the character of Ursula. The cel also depicts the characters of Flotsam and Jetsam, a pair of moray eels that are Ursula henchmen. It was the final Disney feature film to use the traditional hand-painted cel method of animation and is generally regarded as the film that revived the classic Disney animated feature film.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Walt Disney Animation Research Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0135.07
label: accession number
content: 2005.0135
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0135.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Animation Cel
label: Object Name
content: cel, animation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 17 in; 31.75 cm x 43.18 cm