I should have reread the previous post before I 
hit the answer message key. ^^;;; I'll muddle 
through.

But, just because there are so many frames/second 
in a film doesn't mean that there is a cel for 
each second. Most high quality animes will still 
be a lot fewer than that.

For example (and this info is taken from 
www.nausicaa.net -- my favorite place) just 
viewing Studio Ghibli films, one can see a higher 
cel count than most anime series. The animation 
looks much smoother (especially noticeable when 
you slow down the pictures). But their cel count 
seems a lot lower than you would expect:

For Laputa (a little over two hours long), the 
cel count is only: 69, 262

Kiki's Delivery Service: (102 minutes): 67,317

Princess Mononoke (133 minutes): 144,043

I'm not sure how this can be compared to other 
anime series (I have to admit that in some cases, 
I have counted how many cels are in a sequence in 
order to figure out how many are out there ^^;; 
and usually it's not more than ten). I know that 
Disney uses a higher cel count than Ghibli (gotta 
find where I read that and if you are interested, 
I'll post it).

Hope this helps,

Wendy