Ltd Ed WALTER LANTZ ANIMATION CEL Woody & Andy Panda THE HOT DUO Start Price USD 650.00 Current Price USD 650.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 19, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Casselberry, FL See more about 'Ltd Ed WALTER LANTZ ANIMATION CEL Woody & Andy Panda' Description THE HOT DUO16 field cel, hand-inked and painted lithographic background1947 Universal Pictures Co, Inc. and Walter Lantz Productions"Musical Moments From Chopin"This cel is an original work of art created by Walter Lantz Studios.  It is hand-inked and painted from the actual drawing made by the animator for a cartoon called "Musical Moments From Chopin".  In this scene, janitor Woody joins concert pianist Andy Panda in a fiery duet, from this academy award-nominated cartoon.  The animated duo gets so heated that the fire ultimately consumes the piano.  This is number 56 of a limited edition of 200 hand-inked and painted cels personally signed by the creator, Walter Lantz.   Short for celluloid, the cel is the basic element of all animation films.  Every second of full animation requires 24 individual painted cels to be photographed one at a time over an original painted background.  An artist's pencil drawing is transferred directly to the cel in current animation style and then hand-painted by artists from the Lantz studios.This cel is made by the same technique used by all Walter Lantz animation, a process no longer used due to its cost.  Animation cels are getting hard to get now days because just about everything is done on computers now.  RARE ONLY 200 ISSUED!!The cel is matted not framed. Place a Bid!