Pinocchio (151/500)

This is a limited-edition of 500 hand painted cel set-ups from Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature film Pinocchio. It is one of a series of selected limited-edition, hand-painted recreations of original artwork from Disney animated films.

Disney artists recreated the artwork from Pinocchio using traditional animation techniques. The original animation drawings were transferred to acetate cels by a special six-step xerographic process. The cels were also enhanced with hand-inked lines. Artists of the Walt Disney Studios Ink and Paint Department then hand painted each of the cels in the edition with Disney-approved acrylic colors.

The background scene accompanying this cel has been faithfully recreated by a Disney background artist, who used original background paintings, sketches, and frames from the film as references. The resulting artwork has been lithographically printed on premium-quality paper by Color Service, Inc. of Monterey Park, California.

The Disney Animation Research Library maintains the original animation drawings and hand-painted background. Conforming to the practice of fine-art printing, the film used to create the background was destroyed when the editon was completed.

Published by Disney Art Editions in 1994, this edition consists of a general edition of 500, numbered 1/500 to 500/500, 50 publisher's proofs, numbered PP 1/50 to PP 50/50, and 25 hors de commerce numbered HC 1/25 to HC 25/25. There are no signed cels. This recreated cel set-up is from Sequence 10.5, Scene 10.1 of Pinocchio: the family is reunited when Pinocchio finally finds Geppetto inside the belly of Monstro.