Editing Cel (section)

== Collector's items ==
Production cels were sometimes sold after the animation process was completed. More popular shows and movies commanded higher prices for the cels, with some selling for thousands of dollars.

Some cels are not used for actual production work, but may be a "special" or "[[limited edition]]" version of the artwork, sometimes even printed ("[[lithography|lithographed]]") instead of hand-painted. These normally do not fetch as high a price as original "under-the-camera" cels, which are true [[collectable|collector's item]]s. Some unique cels have fetched record prices at art auctions. For example, a large "[[panorama|pan]]" cel depicting numerous characters from the finale of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' sold for $50,600 at [[Sotheby's]] in 1989, including its original background.<ref name=Magazine3>{{cite journal|last1=Coulson|first1=William R.|title=The Art of Disney and Sotheby's|journal=Animation Magazine|date=January 1995|volume=8|issue=2|page=72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTERAQAAMAAJ&q=%22On+Saturday%2C+February+11%2C+1995%2C+Sotheby%E2%80%99s+in+New+York+City%2C+will+continue+what+has+fast+become+an+animation+art+%E2%80%9Ctradition%E2%80%9D+by+holding+an+auction+of+over+250+production+backgrounds+overlaid+with+specially+created+cels%2C+from+Disney%E2%80%99s+most+recent+animation+smash%2C+The+Lion+King.%22|access-date=March 19, 2017|issn=1041-617X|quote=Prices at the Roger Rabbit sale went through the roof.  One cel, depicting a large group of characters, sold for $50,600!}}</ref><ref name="Collect">{{cite news|last1=O'Brian|first1=Dave|title=The Daffy Demand for Cels|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/01/01/the-daffy-demand-for-cels/12f01668-0872-4301-8f0f-749676732bef/|access-date=March 19, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 1, 1990}}</ref>

[[Disney Store]]s sold production cels from ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]'' (their last film to use cels) at prices from $2,500 to $3,500, without the original backgrounds. Lithographed "sericels" from the same film were $250, with edition sizes of 2,500–5,000 pieces.<ref>''Disney Store Catalog'', June 1993</ref>