Animation cel of three dwarfs from <i>Snow White</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1937
name: label: Associated Name
content: Disney
notes: label: Description
content: Animation cel of three dwarfs from the 1937 movie <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i>, Disney’s first feature length film. The painted cel depicts the dwarfs standing in front of an open window, Doc holding a lantern, and a squirrel on the windowsill.
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
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, California
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, California
topic: label: Subject
content: Animation
label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0297.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0297
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0297.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cel, animation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nitrate, paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 21.59 cm