1959 DISNEY SLEEPING BEAUTY \"FAUNA\" ORIGINAL PRODUCTION CEL SIGNED by 2 Old Men

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1959 DISNEY SLEEPING BEAUTY \"FAUNA\" ORIGINAL PRODUCTION CEL SIGNED by 2 Old Men:
$2045.00

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ORIGINAL Animation ProductionCEL

Signed by by 2 of the famous \"9 Old Men,\" OLLIE JOHNSTON & FRANK THOMAS...

A ClassicCHARACTER...One of the Great Animated DISNEY MOTION PICTURES!
ORIGINAL 1959 Animation ProductionCEL

This RARE COLLECTION includes:

*An Original Screen-Used hand-painted Animation ART CELof\"FAUNA\"from\"SLEEPING BEAUTY\" Signed by 2 of the famous \"9 Old Men,\" OLLIE JOHNSTON & FRANK THOMAS...

*Original CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY from RR Autographs & BOB EATON, founding member of PSA/DNA...it is further guaranteed genuine for life by UACC Registered Dealer #228

*Afactory sealed Blu Ray DVD of\"SLEEPING BEATUY\"(NTSC)

*A museum quality gold WoodFrame thathasthe original Animation Art CELnicely matted with UV glass, suede matteandengraved PLAQUE

As a TV & Movie DIRECTOR and a lifetime member of the Director\'s Guild of America, (D.G.A.)Jack M. Sell isoffering some rare props & collectibles from his personal collection from some great television & motion pictures, including \"STAR WARS,\" \"RESIDENT EVIL,\" APOLLO 13,\" \"STAR TREK,\" \"AMERICAN PIE,\" \"DIRTY DANCING,\" \"E.R.\", \"WARM BODIES,\" \"CASINO ROYALE,\" \"bruno,\" \"GONE WITH THE WIND,\" \"CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK,\" \"HANNIBAL,\" \"PLANET OF THE APES,\" \"BATMAN, \" \"IT\'S A WONDERFUL LIFE,\"\"SUPERMAN,\"\"RESIDENT EVIL,\" \"GHOST,\" \"NATIONAL TREASURE,\" \"SKYFALL,\" \"SPIDER-MAN\" & \"PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN\" + dozens of other Films & Television shows, many destined to become Classicsthat will live on for millions of viewers for years to come.

I\'ve been a D.G.A. director of film & television for over 30 years & I\'ve certainly loved these movies as much as any fan and I\'m selling some of myMusic & MovieCollections on that include Art, Autographs, Costumes, Props & MORE for other fans to enjoy!

This particular \"SLEEPING BEAUTY\"collection includes an Original Screen-UsedANIMATION CELARTWORK by DISNEY STUDIOS...by 2 of the famous \"9 Old Men,\" OLLIE JOHNSTON & FRANK THOMAS...

Veteran animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston were assigned as directing animators over the three good fairies: Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Walt Disney urged for the fairies to be more homogeneous, which Thomas and Johnston objected to, with Thomas stating they \"thought \'that\'s not going to be any fun\'. So we started figuring the other way and worked on how we could develop them into special personalities.\"

And, this original artwork is signed by both of these famous animators!

\"SLEEPING BEAUTY\"

This cel was actually used in the making of the legendary animated Disney film, and is anextremely RARE Cel from this motion picture. The cel has a great image of the favorite \"FAUNA\" fairy character.

This Original Painted Animation CEL features one the mainbeloved characters, \"FAUNA.\"

Thisfamous piece of original animation artis in overallgood condition...colors are bright and highlydetailed with clean sharp lines and great paint.

The FRAME measuresapproximately 21\" x 17\"...

TheBrass engraved Plaquemountedon the display reads:

It includesthe ORIGINAL Certificate of Authenticity issued by BOB EATON (RR Autographs),founding member ofPSA/DNA and is also guaranteed for life by UACC Registered Dealer #228...

A WONDERFUL PIECE OF FRAMED ORIGINAL \"SLEEPING BEAUTY\" ART!

This ORIGINALWalt Disney\"SLEEPING BEAUTY\" ANIMATION CEL is becoming very valuable and treasured artwork featuring \"FAUNA\"...this is a beloved character and a great investment that will be enjoyed forgenerations to come.

This ORIGINAL Screen-Used ANIMATION CEL drawn and painted by OLLIE JOHNSTON & FRANK THOMAS is professionally framed in a large custom Gold WoodFrame, along with ablue suedematte cut to highlightthe ARTunder UVglass!

TheAutographed Animation Cel/Artis matted with beautiful blue suede inside an acid free UV museum acrylite glass mountedinside the new gold frame...and comes ready to justhang on the wall in your Home, Office, Media Room or Museum...

You also receive this complete factory sealed copy ofsome of the\"SLEEPING BEAUTY\" The Diamond Edition in Blu Ray, DVD & Digital Copy so you canview this wonderful classic movie again!

TheseVery RARE Cels are very hard to find in the marketplace and rarely ever made available to the public.

Sleeping Beauty is an American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by The Brothers Grimm. The 16th Disney animated feature film, it was released to theaters on January 29, 1959, by Buena Vista Distribution. This was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for some years because of its initial mixed critical reception and underperformance at the box office; the studio did not return to the genre until 30 years later, after Walt Disney died in 1966, with the release of The Little Mermaid (1989).

It features the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, and Bill Thompson.

The film was directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman. The film\'s musical score and songs, featuring the work of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Bruns, are arrangements or adaptations of numbers from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Along with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky\'s music composition was also popular in the film. However, unlike the previous feature-films, this was the first Disney feature-film that did not have the same background animation material, but instead with new background animation material.

Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to be photographed in the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process, as well as the second full-length animated feature film to be filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Disney\'s own Lady and the Tramp four years earlier. The film was presented in Super Technirama 70 and 6-channel stereophonic sound in first-run engagements.

The movie\'s Animators included both Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, 2 of the famous \"9 Old Men\"

OLLIE JOHNSTON

Johnston was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with Pinocchio, released in 1940. He contributed to most Disney animated features, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia and Bambi. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film\'s characters, the cat Rufus. The very last film he worked on was The Fox and the Hound.

Johnston co-authored, with Frank Thomas, the reference book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, which contained the 12 basic principles of animation. This book helped preserve the knowledge of the techniques that were developed at the studio. The partnership of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston is fondly presented in the documentary Frank and Ollie, produced by Thomas\' son Theodore, who in 2012 also produced another documentary, Growing up with Nine Old Men, included in the Diamond edition of the Peter Pan DVD.

FRANK THOMAS

Franklin Rosborough \"Frank\" Thomas (September 5, 1912 â \" September 8, 2004) was an American animator. He was one of Walt Disney\'s team of animators; known as the Nine Old Men.

His work in animated cartoon shorts included \"Brave Little Tailor\", in which he animated scenes of Mickey Mouse and the king; Mickey and the bear in \"The Pointer\", and German dialogue scenes in the World War II propaganda short \"Education for Death\" (shortly before Thomas enlisted in the Air Force). During World War II he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit where he made training films.

In feature films, among the characters and scenes Thomas animated were the dwarfs crying over Snow White\'s \"dead\" body, Pinocchio singing at the marionette theatre, Bambi and Thumper on the ice, Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti, the three fairies in Sleeping Beauty, Merlin and Arthur as squirrels and the \"wizard\'s duel\" between Merlin and Madam Mim in The Sword in the Stone (in which he was paired with animator Milt Kahl to great effect), King Louie in The Jungle Book (the song number \"I Wan\'na Be Like You\" featuring King Louie and Baloo the Bear re-teamed him with Kahl), the dancing penguins in Mary Poppins, and Winnie The Pooh and Piglet in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. Thomas was directing animator for several memorable villains, including the evil stepmother Lady Tremaine in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, and Captain James Hook in Peter Pan. He retired from Disney on January 31, 1978.

Walt Disney\'s SLEEPING BEAUTY

After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess. At the gathering for her christening, she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of King Hubert, Stefan\'s friend, so that their kingdoms will always be united.

Among the guests are three good fairies: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who have come to bless the child with gifts. Flora and Fauna give their blessings (beauty and song, respectively). Just before Merryweather can bestow her gift to the infant princess, the evil fairy/witch Maleficent appears. Angered upon not being invited to the christening, Maleficent curses the princess, proclaiming that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of an enchanted spinning wheel and die. After Maleficent leaves, laughing, Merryweather uses her blessing to weaken the curse so that Aurora instead will fall into a deep sleep from which she can only be awakened by true love\'s first kiss. Stefan, still fearful for his daughter\'s life, orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. The fairies do not believe that will be enough to keep Aurora safe, and so they take Aurora away to a woodcutter\'s cottage in the forest, living as mortals, until the day of her sixteenth birthday.

Years later, Aurora, renamed Briar Rose, has grown up into a beautiful young maiden. On the day of her sixteenth birthday, the three fairies ask Rose to gather berries in the forest so they can prepare a surprise party for her. Meanwhile, Maleficent, in frustration, has her raven Diablo search for Aurora after her bumbling demon soldiers fail to find her, revealing to her that they\'ve been looking in every cradle for 16 years. In the forest, Rose\'s beautiful singing voice attracts the attention of Phillip, now a handsome young man. They instantly fall in love, unaware of being betrothed many years ago. Rose asks Phillip to come to the cottage in the glen that evening to meet her, without telling each other\'s names.

Having difficulty sewing together a ball gown and preparing a birthday cake for Rose, the fairies resort to magic. Fighting over the dress\' color, the magic with puffs exiting the chimney of the cottage attracts the attention of Diablo. When Rose arrives, the fairies tell her the truth about her royal heritage, and that she cannot see her newfound love stranger. Heartbroken, Rose leaves the room. Overhearing this, Diablo departs to inform Maleficent. At the same time, Phillip tells his father of a peasant girl whom he met and wishes to marry in spite of his prearranged marriage to Aurora. Hubert fails to convince him otherwise, leaving him in equal disappointment.

The fairies take Aurora back to the castle that evening. Maleficent lures Aurora away from the fairies and tricks the princess into pricking her finger on a spinning wheel\'s spindle, completing the curse, and sending Aurora into a deep sleep. The fairies put Aurora on a bed in the highest tower and cast a gentle spell on everyone in the castle, putting them all to sleep until the curse is broken. From Hubert\'s conversation with Stefan, Flora realizes that Phillip is the stranger whom Aurora has fallen in love with. However, he has been ambushed and kidnapped by Maleficent and her minions at the cottage. They take him to Maleficent\'s castle on Forofferden Mountain and imprison him in the dungeon. Maleficent shows Phillip that the peasant girl and the now peacefully sleeping Aurora are one and the same. She plans to keep him locked away until he is a weak old man on the verge of death, then she will release him to meet his love, who will not have aged a single day.

After Maleficent returns to her tower, the fairies arrive at the castle, where they narrowly avoid being spotted. Luckily they find and release Phillip, arming him with the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. The fairies and Phillip then proceed to escape on his horse Samson. In the process, Merryweather also turns Diablo to stone, but his cries alert Maleficent to the prince\'s escape. As Phillip and the fairies make their way toward King Stefan\'s castle, Maleficent tries to stop him with a series of lightning bolts, and even conjuring a forest of thorns to surround the castle, but all her attempts fail. She then teleports herself to the castle gate and transforms into a giant dragon to battle the prince. The battle moves onto a cliff, where a blast of Maleficent\'s flame causes Phillip to lose his shield. Just as Maleficent is about to lunge at the prince and destroy him, the three fairies fly to Phillip\'s aid. Blessing it with all their magic, Phillip throws the sword directly into Maleficent\'s heart. Mortally wounded, Maleficent collapses over the cliff. All that\'s left of her is a part of her robe, with the sword pinning it down as it turns black.

When Maleficent dies, the forest of thorns disappears. Phillip, accompanied by the fairies, walks into the castle. In the highest tower he finds his true love, still asleep. He kisses Aurora and she awakens, breaking the curse and waking everyone in the palace. The royal couple descends to the ballroom, where Aurora is happily reunited with her parents, despite Hubert\'s confusion. As Aurora dances with Phillip, Flora and Merryweather resume their argument over the color of Aurora\'s dress, changing it to pink and blue and back again. Aurora and Phillip dance on and live happily ever after.

What a wonderful & interesting history for anyDISNEY\" and \"SLEEPINGBEAUTY\"fanregarding art & animation...and a valuable gift that could become a good investment for the future!

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Jack M. Sell is a Registered Dealer with the U.A.C.C. (RD#228). Mr. Sell has made national and local television appearances on many programs as a guest expert in his field, a Member of the Manuscript Society, Member of the APIC, member of IADA, has over 9000 Positive Ratings and is a lifetime Member of the Director\'s Guild of America (D.G.A.) & has been directing TV & Film for over 30 years for SONY/Columbia Pictures, PBS, Tribune Entertainment Corporation, USA Network, HBO & NBC, so please buy with confidence...we are proud that some of our memorabilia on display in the SMITHSONIAN, Washington, D.C.

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I am a lifetime member and Director with the DIRECTOR\'S GUILD OF AMERICA and a Registered Dealer with the UACC (RD #228). This ORIGINALANIMATION CELis nicely framed and is UV marked for future identification, so please ask if you have any further questions before offerding, since all sales are final to protect the provenance and chain of custody of this great & unique piece of art...Buyer is responsible for any VAT or SALEStax that their Country or State may or may not charge...our photos are included as part of our ad.

WE SOLD AN EXPENSIVE R.C. GORMAN LITHOGRAPH RECENTLY HERE ON & WERE VERY PLEASED AND PROUD WHEN WE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM OUR BUYER:

\"Hello Jack, our Gorman has already arrived and is hanging on a brand new wall. I am VERY pleased with her....she is perfectly beautiful and the frame is perfect for my room. I am happy with my decision! Many thanks, Jack. Let\'s keep in touch. Thanks for your ideas and emails. Cordially, Judy\"

WE ARE ALWAYS HAPPY WHEN YOU\'RE HAPPY, BUT I KNOW HOW HARD IT MIGHT SEEM TO PURCHASE ART ON , SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT WE\'LL TAKE THE EXTRA TIME TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS AND TAKE ADDITIONAL PHOTOS IF NEEDED AND DO WHAT WE CAN TO DELIVER YOU A GREAT PIECE OF AUTHENTIC ART FOR THE TRUE COLLECTOR.

This Art has been stored in an acid free case, in a temperature controlled, pet free, smoke free Environment.

This Great\"One Of A Kind\" Collection includes this \"SLEEPING BEAUTY\" Original Screen-Used 1959 ANIMATION CEL Signed by both OLLIEJOHNSTONand FRANK THOMAS,all framed and matted with engraved PLAQUE, Certificate of Authenticity (COA)and anew, factory sealed DVD \"Diamond Edition\" ofthe \"SLEEPING BEAUTY\"Motion Picture from Walt Disney Studios!

Of course, you also get the original COA that guarantees this terrificanimation art cel for life...it is issued by issued by Bob Eaton (RR sales), founder of PSA/DNA and also guaranteed by UACC Registered Dealer #228...

FULL MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!

Sell Communications offers a FULL MONEY BACK, LIFETIME AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE on all of our AUTOGRAPHED ITEMS. has sought out qualified experts in the autograph field who will evaluate an autograph and will offer their opinion on it\'s authenticity. Sell Communications uses these recommended services of PSA/DNA and GLOBAL DNA Authentication Services. If this autograph is declared not to be authentic, we may ask the purchaser to supply the full written opinion of one competent authority acceptable to us. We will refund the purchase price after documentation has been submitted. The buyer\'s only remedy under this guarantee is the cancellation of the sale and the refund of the purchase price. Please contact us before returning any item(s). If a signed item from Sell Communications is found not to be authentic and original by PSA/DNA and/or GLOBAL DNA Authentication Services, we will issue you, the original purchaser, a FULL REFUND for your Original Purchase Price.

A GREAT piece ofDISNEYhistory & memorabilia.....a real \"One of a Kind\" Find & Conversation Piece for both ANIMATION ART COLLECTORS & \"Sleeping Beauty\"FANS...Movie & Television Art, Props & Autographs can make for a good investment as well!

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Imagine giving thisRare Original\"SLEEPING BEAUTY\"Animation Cel to theDISNEY fanor Art Collector in your family or just keeping it for yourself for what could be a good investment!

A GREAT collectible \"SLEEPING BEAUTY\" COLLECTION fromthe great 1959 Disney Motion Picture.

A VERY RARE & VALUABLE ONE OF A KIND FIND!!!

You may never see another one like this ever offered to the public again!

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1959 DISNEY SLEEPING BEAUTY \"FAUNA\" ORIGINAL PRODUCTION CEL SIGNED by 2 Old Men:
$2045.00