Disney Original Production Cel Art - The Great Mouse Detective - Ratigan

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Disney Original Production Cel Art - The Great Mouse Detective - Ratigan:
$1000.00

Disney Original Production Cel Art Collection - The Great Mouse Detective

Original production cel of Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective.

We are selling a portion of our private collection of Original Disney Cel Art from a number of popular Disney movies. It has been in the family for over 40 years, maintained in excellent condition. Cel is unframed. Each cel has the stamp of authenticity and caption details on the back.

Note concerning lamination: Disney laminated the original cel art in an effort to preserve the integrity of the paint used in production. The lamination process was later found to cause color leaching, creasing, and cracks due to the effects oftemperature and humidity. This collection of cel art is in good condition and integrity, and may last another 40+ years with proper storage and Environmental control.

Art will ship UPS fragile packing, secure and insured.

Story:

The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 American animated mystery film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures. The 26th feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film was directed by Burny Mattinson, David Michener, and the team of John Musker and Ron Clements, who later directed Disney\'s hit films The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. The film was also known as The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective for its 1992 theatrical re-release and Basil the Great Mouse Detective in some countries. The main characters are all mice and rats living in Victorian London.

Based on the children\'s book series Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus, it draws heavily on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes with a heroic mouse who consciously emulates the detective; Titus named the main character after actor Basil Rathbone, who is best remembered for playing Holmes in film (and whose voice, sampled from a 1966 reading of \"The Adventure of the Red-Headed League\"[2] was the voice of Holmes in this film, 19 years after his death). Sherlock Holmes also mentions \"Basil\" as one of his aliases in the Arthur Conan Doyle story \"The Adventure of Black Peter\".