Here's a great find I came across online...
The Art of Who Framed Roger Rabbit is actually an
illustrated catalog published by
Sotheby's for an animation cel
auction that was held in
June of
1989.
The book has a
9 page description of went into the making of the film and is filled with various animation art used in the movie. A lot of nice images make up this catalog.
It seems they had the rights to sell the
Disney,
Warner Bros and
Fleischer characters but no sight of the
MGM and
Walter Lantz characters.
While flipping through the pages, I noticed some images that were not shown in the final picture. This notice was included:
"All cels included in this sale are images actually used in, or deleted from, or were created in pre-production of the film..."Mary Poppins and
Music Land can be seen in these cels used(?) during the
Yosemite Sam scene.
A deleted scene had
Baby Herman slipping a fin to his nursemaid.
The scene where
Eddie tries to throw
Roger out his office seemed to be re-shot and animated.
When the
Weasels show up at Eddie's, Roger's
anticipation into his
wild take was trimmed out.
A scene of Eddie explaining the connection between
Cloverleaf and
Maroon Cartoons was deleted.
Here's an
awesome cel collection that would look nice on my wall. The only time both
Mickey Mouse and
Bugs Bunny shared the screen together.
Wonder if any of these are still available to purchase? I bet they would be worth a lot more than what they were
20 years ago...
