Vintage view: Animation celluloid

Kya deLongchamps shows the value of provenance when is comes to collecting celluloid from the golden age of animation.

Remember that first tense drama that made you shout out loud as a young child (and that was not your big brother biting the nose off your Barbie), chances are you were stirred up by a cartoon.

Mel Blanc’s voicing for the lean, outrageous scripts of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies created sheer magic bristling with pointy adult innuendo. Then there were the feature films — Disney’s Fantasia (1940) still glorious in its breadth of surreal creativity. The shock of Bambi’s mother’s death (1940) was an emotional drop-kick to the heart.