Peanuts Original Production Cel with Matching Layout Drawing: Marcie, Charlie Brown

Marcie, Charlie Brown

MEDIUM: Original Production Cel with Matching Layout Drawing on Printed Background
SIZE: 12.5" x 10.5" (Cel), 7" X 5.25" (Image)
PRODUCTION: You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown, 1975
SKU: CCV3484

ABOUT THE IMAGE: These three matching hand-painted animation cels of Marcie and Charlie Brown were created and photographed together during production of the TV special "You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown" based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz. The drawing is an animator's extreme created by a studio animator, with grid at right, and the cel of Charlie Brown was made directly from it.

In the motocross segment, Marcie plays a reporter who interviews Charlei Brown before the race: "This contestant is Charlie Brown." Studio notations "98K CB 1," "98KE-1," and "98K M1" are written at lower right to mark each cel's place in the film. The drawing of Charlie Brown is annotated with cel paint colors, production stamps, and "Sc. 98-K CB-1."

ABOUT THE MEDIUM: Original production cels are one-of-a-kind pieces of art that were used in the creation of an animated film or television show. Each has been hand-painted by studio artists on a piece of celluloid acetate, and has been photographed over a background painting to create a frame of the finished production.