An American Tail Key Master Setup

A key master set up comprised of an animation cel and hand-painted background from the film An American Tail.

• Universal Pictures.
• Directed by Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth.
• Background is gouache on board, and has the initials 'DB' in graphite along the bottom peghole, which was the director Don Bluth's approval mark.
• This work is presented matted.

"I stopped that a long time ago!" In this hand-painted, original 12-field production cel, Fievel has a hard time with Orphan's Alley bullies, named Noodles (with glasses) and Roc. They make fun of Fievel because he's looking for his family. This cel can be found around the 1:08:55 mark in the film.

An American Tail is a 1986 American animated musical adventure film directed by Don Bluth. The film stars the voices of Phillip Glasser, John Finnegan, Amy Green, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, and Christopher Plummer. It is the story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from Russia to the United States for freedom. However, he gets lost and must find a way to reunite with them. The film was released in the United States on November 21, 1986, by Universal Pictures, four months after Disney's The Great Mouse Detective was released. It received positive reviews and was a box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film at the time; the film is currently Don Bluth's second highest-grossing animated film, only behind Anastasia (1997).

From the Mike Glad Museum Collection.