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 cel of Ursula, from <i>The Little Mermaid</i> mounted on reproduction background. It includes handwritten numbers and words on the cel and background. She is depicted on cel with background of swirling dark reds and black.
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. The character’s voice was supplied by comedienne Pat Carroll. 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
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2005.0135.12
label: accession number
content: 2005.0135
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0135.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Animation Cel
label: Object Name
content: cel, animation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 19 in; 33.02 cm x 48.26 cm