While I don't question the historical signifigance
of cels from a movie like Snow White (you're also 
all forgetting that most old Disney cels were 
destroyed) - American animation is just more than 
I'm willing to pay. . . Where something does seem 
worth it's price (like a cel of Honest John from 
Pinocchio that I saw at Van Eaton), it's more 
than I *can* pay.

I but have to say, I don't find myself envying 
those Courvoisier setups. They're NOT cels 
anymore! Courvoisier CUT OUT the images along the 
very edge of the image and stuck it to a non-
production background. Often, they didn't even 
keep the images from matching layers of a sequence
together, instead trying to come up with something
more "aesthically pleasing" than what you actually
saw and enjoyed in the movie! >_<  All you have 
is a bit of paint glued to paper. And for anyone 
who's never seen one up close (I have) the "cel" 
is turned into something that resembles a 
Colorform. >_<  It makes me cringe the way they 
destroyed all those beautiful cels in the name of 
making their own paste and patch "art".

Trimmed cels I can understand, since many of the 
cels from these old shows were snatched off piles 
of cels that were being destroyed (damaged edges 
were often trimmed off). . . But Courvoisier? 
They should have been shot.

Always just my two cents. . .

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac