Scooby-Doo — Production Cel, Signed by Bob Singer

This production cel comes from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, the series created by Hanna-Barbera in 1969 that established one of the longest-running animated franchises in television history. The cel is hand-painted over a hand-painted background and is signed by Bob Singer, one of the key animators of the studio.

The object is a direct record of the traditional animation process: each frame was drawn, transferred onto transparent celluloid and painted by hand, one image at a time, before being photographed over a painted background. What survives is therefore not a reproduction but a working element of the production itself, and each cel is by nature unique.

The series introduced Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Fred, Daphne and the Mystery Machine, and went on to generate nineteen television series, more than forty animated films and two live-action features. Hand-painted backgrounds are comparatively scarce, since many cels were photographed over the same background, which adds to the documentary interest of a complete, signed piece.