The Friar Tuck production cel in its frame, as photographed by the dealer
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Friar Tuck

Robin Hood · 1973

This cel is Friar Tuck tasting Little John’s stew at the Sherwood camp. The drawing on it is on screen 29 minutes and 5 seconds into the film, for two frames.

In the film
29:05
Scene
Sherwood campTuck tastes the stew
The drawing
Frame 67 of 83Held for two frames
Fit
Within an ink line2.5 pixels on average
The scene29:05

Little John stirs, Tuck tastes

Little John is at the pot in his apron at 28:48. Tuck leans in, tastes from the ladle and starts talking. Play the shot to see where your cel falls in it.

Your cel · frame 67
29:05Frame 67 of 83
Your cel
Each bar shows how well your cel lines up with that drawing. The gold bar is the match.Scene time 121.5 to 124.9 seconds
Watch this moment on YouTube“Robin Hood Plans to Impress Maid Marian” from Freeform, at 2:04.25. Pause there and press the full stop key to step one frame at a time.
The drawings either side63–71

Why it’s this drawing and not its neighbour

A single side-by-side always looks convincing. The proof is that the drawings around it don’t fit. The gold line is your cel’s outline on each one.

Frame 63
Frame 63The head sits lower and further left, and the ladle leans out.
Frame 65
Frame 65Nearly there. The head is still a little low.
Frame 67, the match
Frame 67, your celHead, ladle and the hand at the chest all sit on the outline.
Frame 69
Frame 69The head starts to tip forward and the eyes drop.
Frame 71
Frame 71The head is well below the outline now.
The numbers

Every frame against the best still

Before checking every frame, the closest match was a still from a sampled set. It looked right, but the fit had to stretch and shear the cel to make it work.

That still turned out to be the drawing after yours, with the ladle already starting to tilt. Checked frame by frame, the real drawing fits with nothing but a change of size.

Two frames in a row score the same. That is one drawing photographed twice, which is what “on twos” looks like in the data.

MeasureBest stillEvery frame
Points that agree13151
Ink lines that overlap58%84%
Average gap between lines4.7 px2.5 px
Bending needed to fitStretch and shearNone, size only
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Friar Tuck, cut out from the cel photo
The cel itself

What else the cel tells us

  • Tuck is alone on his sheet. In the film the stew pot sits in front of him and the forest behind. Those were separate layers, which is how a cel from a multi-layer shot should look.
  • The paint stops in a clean edge at the waist. Nothing below that point was ever in frame.
  • An embossed studio seal sits at the lower left of the cel.
  • The listing says it has not been taken out of its frame, with minor line wear. The back and the peg holes are unseen.
Pegbar match card
The Friar Tuck cel sitting on its frame from Robin Hood. Frame 67 of 83
Friar Tuck
Robin Hood · 1973
In the film29:05
Scene
Sherwood camp
On screen
2 frames
Fit
Within an ink line
Checked
83 of 83 frames
Pegbar matchNo. 0001
The match card

What this match proves

What the match tells you

  • The drawing on this cel is in Robin Hood, at 29:05, for two frames.
  • It is the Sherwood camp scene, and no neighbouring drawing fits as well.

What still needs a person

  • Whether this sheet of acetate is the one that went under the camera, rather than a second cel of the same drawing.
  • The back, the peg holes and the paint condition, which the photo doesn’t show.

Listing photo from the dealer. Film frames from a 1080p copy of the scene, checked at the full 24 frames a second.

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