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Originally Posted by Hugh R View Post
For decades, Disney took the glass animation cells for making all their classic animated movies and cartoons and would put them in dip (remember the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), and reuse the glass.
I heard stories of employees 'surfing' on mylar or acetate cell's dumped by the hundreds in hallways. Nowadays, those (individually hand painted) cells from classic cartoons get huge buck$ from collectors.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that we move on from our past like this. Too easy to become a hoarder, but shameful that we can no longer duplicate a moon launch that took place 40 years ago...
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