A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation. 2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times:
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