GUEST: I brought two albums.

One is the animation## that I inked as an inker in# 1939 with Disney Studios.

APPRAISER: You worked in the studios?

GUEST: Yes, I did.

APPRAISER: And your job at the studios was to## actually take the paint and apply# it to the, to the animation cels?

GUEST: I... That, and I was an inker, too.

APPRAISER: An ink...

The lines that go around?

APPRAISER: And how long did# you work at the Disney Studios?

GUEST: Several years.

I, uh, worked on Pinocchio# and Fantasia and Bambi, and, and later on,## I worked on Sleeping Beauty.

Each girl was given# a sequence to ink, and they were timed before## you received them.

And each picture was timed by# another girl.

And you were to keep up with those,## uh, timing, and, uh, it was counted for or against# you.

And, uh, if you didn't keep up on their time,## you were let go.

But, uh, it kept# you on your toes.

You had to listen## to a radio through earphones so that you# wouldn't slow down by talking to someone.

APPRAISER: And how many cels# would you say you painted a day?

GUEST: Say 35 to 65.

APPRAISER: That's a lot of work for a day.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

It was fun, though.

APPRAISER: Good.

GUEST: Yeah, I really .. APPRAISER: Disney now uses computers.

APPRAISER: So they no longer have people# to hand-ink and paint them.

So that makes## them and yourself and your career that much more# special.

The thing about these is, you can see how## the movie was really made.

It's an interesting# historical book, to actually look through the## whole book and to be able to see...

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...how much work it, is involved.# And then here you have some practice tests.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: Which I think is really interesting, because these aren't the colors# that they used in the film.

APPRAISER: This book I found fascinating, as# well.

It's a wonderful collection of animation## drawings.

This particularly is from Snow White.# And the whole book is filled with things that,## um, are very similar to this,# and I was quite impressed.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: Uh, these are from Pinocchio.

With your collection of animation# drawings, it's really neat.

APPRAISER: I, if you add everything up,# the cels are actually the things that are## the most valuable.

Unfortunately, they've# been cut down, and they're not on their## full sheets.

And the animation drawings,# unfortunately, have been trimmed, as well,## but if you go through the entire book and you# add up the whole collection of animation cels## and the drawings, the whole collection# itself is worth about $15,000 to $20,000.

GUEST: Oh, that sounds good.

(both chuckle)