The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons. This traveling exhibit is now on display at the Museum of History and Industry, which almost never acquires exhibits produced elsewhere. It’s got 150-some pieces of original art, most of which were in Steve Schneider’s coffee-table book That’s All Folks! The Carl Stalling Project CD plays on the PA. A mini-theater plays some of the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection DVDs to adoring/adorable young’uns.

I’d seen most of the art pieces before in printed form. I wasn’t prepared for how small they were in real life. The ink lines on the cels were sometimes hair-thin; yet, when filmed and projected, these figures almost always moved in perfect flicker-free sequence. I left with more appreciation for the ladies of the studio’s ink and paint department, who turned the animators’ pencil drawings into what you saw on screen. They were expert craftswomen.