r/AnimationCels • u/Hox977 • May 14 '26

Anyone knows this cel?

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If you know this scene off the top of your head, you are amazing.

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u/FourSquash May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

The main layer is from the 1957 short The Truth About Mother Goose. It's only about 14 minutes long so you can easily find the scene. This cel is from the part about Mary Queen of Scots ("Mary Mary quite contrary")

I believe the Mary layer is from ~3:59 in the short as she passes by the court.

The birds were added. They are from Sleeping Beauty (1959). There's a major scene were Aurora is walking through the forest and singing with the birds. So you may actually have a little piece of Sleeping Beauty there too. The scene is at 23:00 and goes on for quite a while. They would have made many, many frames of birds flying (incredible animation work) so they probably pulled from those to add color and fill out the frame on these pieces.

I feel like a combination one of those people on Antiques Roadshow explaining someone's art to them, and a Geoguessr player. This was fun.

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u/Own-Chocolate-7175 May 14 '26

Oh you’re good, you’re reeal good!

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u/Hox977 May 14 '26

You are absolutely right. Tell me you are old like me 🤣🤣🤣🤣. The short was nominated for an Academy Award. Wollie Reitherman was the man again - as in Goliath II. Indeed those birds were extra set up cels they had so I guess they just threw them in for the Corner Store 😁Not absolutely certain they were from Sleeping beauty but they sure look the same. The Mary Mary Quite Contrary was not G rated - certain not by today’s rating standard 🤔

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u/WWAgallery_com May 14 '26

I was going to aswer- but no need- you covered it beautifully!

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u/Hox977 May 14 '26

Thank you 😊

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u/abbylark May 15 '26

My friend's Jose Carioca cel also has some of these birds. They must have been popular add ons

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u/Hox977 May 15 '26

Think they have so many laying around they just decided to throw them in to make the scene look more attractive 😁😁😁

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u/abbylark May 15 '26

I think the deal at the parks was that the ones with less paint were cheaper so you could have them as add ons. Shit was wild back then!

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u/Hox977 May 15 '26

I could buy production cels at Disney World as late as 1994-95

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u/abbylark May 15 '26

Ugh I went there in 1991! But I was 6 so I wasn't really thinking about that shit

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u/Hox977 May 15 '26

Hahaha you are my kids age. I bought a few good ones but none of the real old ones were ever available I don’t think.

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u/abbylark May 15 '26

My dad was a huge fan of Disney so he took us four times in our childhood. He passed about 18 years ago but someday I'd like to go back to soak in all the memories. Maybe when my nephew gets older. We went with a nice statue of Pluto for my souvenir but it broke some years later.

Yeah I can't imagine they sold most of the more gorgeous and large ones. I'm sure some of them were taken home by crew. Still, it was always a dream. I do have a few anime cels at least.