Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animation Cel
date: label: date made
content: 1987 - 1991
name: label: maker
content: W
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This animation cel was used in the production of the television series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Running from 1987-1996, the show, the first to feature the titular heroes, became one of the most popular children's programs in history. It helped ignite worldwide interest in the characters, three years after their debut in an independently published comic written by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four brothers: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael. Living in the sewer, they are trained to be ninjas by their sensei, a humanoid rat named Splinter. Enduring the tribulations of adolescence and appreciating the importance of family, the Turtles have been used to explore such issues as bullying, drug-use and pollution.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Evolving into a mass-media franchise and fixture of American popular culture, the four pizza-loving "dudes" have been the subject of numerous successful television series, video games and Hollywood films; appearing on scores of licensed products, including toys, home goods, and apparel. Over the years, the franchise has been criticized by some for violent content and aggressive marketing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Animation
label: Subject
content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mirage Licensing, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3187.07
label: accession number
content: 1993.3187
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3187.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cel, animation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: acetate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm