1961 Disney \"Donald and the Wheel\" Production Cels w/ Disneyland Art Corner Seal For Sale

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1961 Disney \"Donald and the Wheel\" Production Cels w/ Disneyland Art Corner Seal:
$650.00

• These two genuine Disney animation cels still remain sealed inside the 1962 Disneyland Art Corner 10\" x 12\" matte in which they were originally sold in by Disney. Affixed to the back of the matte is the original Disneyland Art Corner Gold Label applied by Disneyland. This \"Gold Label\" is of the variety used at the Disneyland Art Corner from 1962 through 1965. Reasonable offers will be considered.


• The first cel is of \"Caveman\" Donald Duck. It\'s contains a 3¼ inch high image of Donald from the Disney\'s 17 minute animation featurette, \"Donald and the Wheel.\" \"Donald and the Wheel\" was released in theaters on June 21, 1961, as the companion cartoon to Disney\'s feature length movie, \"The Parent Trap,\" released the same day.


• The second cel is a large Glass of Orange Juice with a Straw. This cel comes from a TV commercial shown during Walt Disney\'s \"Wonderful World of Color\" television show. In the early 1960\'s, such cel combinations were sold in Disneyland at the Disneyland Art Corner. These two cels have survived intact in their original Disneyland packaging. More than the 60 years have passed since Disney used these cels in actual productions.


• Only a few \"Caveman\" Donald Duck cels from Disney\'s 1961 \"Donald and the Wheel\" cartoon featurette are known to exist. The full Donald Duck cel is larger than the visible space showing it in the Disney matte. The image of Donald Duck painted on it takes up only the right half of the visible image space of this standard size Disneyland Art Corner matte. The the hand-painted Orange Juice Glass cel was placed by the Disneyland Art Cornerto full up the left half of visible space.
  


• We have search the internet worldwide and have only been able to locate very few examples of such mixed matched Disneyland Art Corner releases. We did found a similar \"Caveman\" Donald Duck production cel from the same featurette sequence as here. That was sold on-line a couple of dozen years ago. That Art Corner issue had matched \"Caveman\" Donald to a very small image of Jiminy Cricket painted on a cel from Disney\'s \"Pinocchio.\" The Jiminy Cricket image had been placed where the Orange Juice Glass cel is located here. Not long after that, Van Eaton Galleries sold a nearly identical \"Caveman\" Donald Duck cel that obviously had been taken out of its Disney matte to sell on its own. Disney\'s limited dispersal of this \"Caveman\" Donald Duck cel series in combination with other cels has made them quite scarce.


• Similar but much smaller images of \"Caveman\" Donald Duck were later reprinted on postage stamps worldwide to commemorate the 1994 50th Anniversary of Donald Duck (as example, the Maldives Islands 1995 stamp set, Scott Catalog #2051-2058). A \"Caveman\" Donald Duck reproduction was also used in Icygeek\'s \"Disney Magic: the Gathering\" card game (such as \"Caveduck, Legendary Creature Duck Barbarian\") and in many popular GIF format background screen savers. These are only various sized,, later copies of the original 1961 cels.
  


• The cels here are not commemorations, reproductions, or copies, but the original hand-painted production cels with provenance tracing them back to use by Disney for the filming of its actual cartoons. Again, these two cels come sealed together inside the single matte in which they were originally sold by Disneyland\'s Art Corner over 60 years ago. The initial scans are of the actual Disney artwork being offered, with the last scan showing a promotional piece concerning the 1961 release of the \"Donald and the Wheel\" featurette (not included in this lot). You can judge the condition from the scans yourself.


• Free local pickup at a mutually convenient time, or we ship by U.S. Postal Service with USPS Tracking by the close of the next postal business day from payment. Shipping includes full value insurance. We can often combine other items purchased the same day into the same package with this one to save you on shipping.


• NOTICE: Since insurance covers only the goods but not the costs of shipping them, the buyer agrees that once we have proof of delivery of the package to the post office (which is usually the postal receipt that the postal window clerk gives us at the time of mailing), that if the package or its contents is lost in the mails and not delivered or is damaged in shipping that any refund is limited to the purchase price and any sales tax (if applicable) and does not include a refund of the shipping or insurance. For international buyers, we label our customs tags as \"merchandise\" and you are responsible for all customs, duties or other import fees into your country.



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