found: Beck, J. Warner Bros. animation art : the characters, the creators, the limited editions, c1997:p. 186-193 from the chapter, Ruth Clampett on animation art ("animation cels ... While the purchase of a production cel is an opportunity to own an actual moment of a cartoon, a limited edition is a hand-painted tribute to the cartoon itself ... Although limited editions were originally created to compensate for a lack of production cels ... limited editions offer the collector an image that is a great alternative to a production cel.")
found: Library of Congress thesaurus for graphic materials II, Genre and physical characteristic terms (TGMII) website(animation cels: images on celluloid or polyester sheets, which are used to create an animated sequence for movie, videotape, or other moving image productions; usually drawings or paintings)
found: Web. 3(cel: one of the transparent sheets of celluloid on which objects or sections of objects are drawn or painted in the making of automated cartoons for motion pictures and television)