About The Artist:
Richard Fleischer
Fleischer, the son of animation pioneer Max Fleischer, attended Brown University before enrolling at the Yale School of Drama, where in 1937 he founded a theatrical group. In 1942 he joined RKO as a writer on the Pathé newsreels, and a year later he began directing shorts for the studio. In 1946 Fleischer helmed his first feature film, the domestic drama Child of Divorce, which did well enough to inspire the sequel, Banjo (1947). He...
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About The Medium:
Cel
A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid (consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor) was used during the first half of the 20th century, but since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable it was largely replaced by cellulose acetate.