<i>The Little Mermaid</i> colored animation celluloid
date: label: date made
content: around 1988
name: label: Associated Name
content: Disney
notes: label: Description
content: Animation cel from the 1989 Disney animated film <i>The Little Mermaid</i>. In 1990, <i>The Little Mermaid</i> won two Academy Awards – one for Best Score and one for Best Song (“Under the Sea”). This drawing, labeled #183/500, depicts the main character Ariel sitting on a rock with her friend Flounder by her side.
label: Description
content: A celluloid (or cel) is a transparent sheet used in the process of hand-drawn animation. Characters were drawn on cels and superimposed on a fixed background image to reduce the number of reproductions necessary to produce an animation. <i>The Little Mermaid</i> was the last Disney feature film to use this hand-drawn method of animation. Starting with the 1990 feature film <i>The Rescuers Down Under</i>, Walt Disney Animation Studios began using a digital method of animation known as the Disney Computer Animation Production System (CAPS).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
label: Subject
content: Animation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Walt Disney Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0046.01
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0046.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose; paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 11 1/2 in; 43.18 cm x 29.21 cm