Why Pegbar exists
Cel listings tell you a cel was in the film. Pegbar shows you where.
“…an actual frame of animation that was photographed and appears in the film.”
From a dealer’s listing, repeated word for word across its cels
That sentence may well be true. It is almost never shown. A buyer has no way to see which scene the cel is from, or whether anyone has checked.
Pegbar started with a Friar Tuck cel that carried that sentence. Searching the film found the scene, and checking it frame by frame found the drawing: frame 67 of an 83-frame shot, 29 minutes and 5 seconds in. Watching the cel settle onto its drawing said more than any certificate could.
The same search on two other cels gave two different answers. Tito’s scene was certain but his exact drawing fell between the frames on hand. Baloo found no frame at all, for reasons the report explains. All three answers are on this site, because the ones that don’t end in a match matter too.
Three promises
Show the evidence, not a score
Every result comes with the frames behind it, including the drawings that don’t fit. You can check the match with your own eyes.
Say no when the answer is no
A cel that finds no frame is told so, with what was searched and what would settle it. If the answer were always yes, it wouldn’t tell you anything.
Say what a match can’t prove
A match is evidence about the drawing, not the sheet of acetate. Every report says so, in plain words.
What a pegbar is
A pegbar is a metal strip with three pegs. It sat on every animator’s desk and under the animation camera.
Every drawing and cel was punched to fit those pegs, so each one sat in exactly the same place. That is how a cel lined up perfectly over its background when the camera photographed it.
The pegbar kept your cel in register with its scene in the studio. Pegbar finds that registration again, decades later.
A working preview
The check page runs the matching engine in your browser, against every frame in the library. That library holds three scenes so far, one from Robin Hood and two from The New Batman Adventures. The three reports on this site were worked through one cel at a time with the same method, on more footage. The next step is a larger frame library.
Who Pegbar answers to
Pegbar is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any film or television studio, including The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros., or by any gallery whose listings appear here. Film frames appear only to identify artwork, and cel photographs come from their dealer listings.
Read the reports
Two matches, one scene found, and one cel with no frame. Each shows its evidence.