Guilty as charged! This brings back a memory from around 1980.
I ordered an animation cel from Original Animation Art (Starshine Group).
You had to mail them a check and a description of what you were looking for, and hope for the best.
The first one they sent me was a little bit better than Scratchy's arm, but not by much. I returned it and asked for something with the entire character in it.
They sent Daffy Duck nearly off the edge of the frame with a nasty scowl. Not fun to look at.
For the third try, I asked if I could please have something with the character smiling and in the center of the frame. And they sent a wonderful cel of Porky Pig from A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court!
It looks very much like this one, but only Porky and not the background:
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Guilty as charged! This brings back a memory from around 1980.
I ordered an animation cel from Original Animation Art (Starshine Group).
You had to mail them a check and a description of what you were looking for, and hope for the best.
The first one they sent me was a little bit better than Scratchy's arm, but not by much. I returned it and asked for something with the entire character in it.
They sent Daffy Duck nearly off the edge of the frame with a nasty scowl. Not fun to look at.
For the third try, I asked if I could please have something with the character smiling and in the center of the frame. And they sent a wonderful cel of Porky Pig from A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court!
It looks very much like this one, but only Porky and not the background:
https://www.comic-mint.com/chuck-jones/a-connecticut-rabbit-in-king-arthurs-court-1978-directed-by-chuck-jones
That cel must have been from the same scene as mine, as some elements of it are identical, particularly his right hand holding the torch.
Many years later I bought the DVD of this movie, stepped through it and found the exact frame with my cel. Too cool!