NYTimes reports that a Japanese university plans to return about 250 pieces of original animation art to the Walt Disney Company that were mislaid in storage after traveling to Japan nearly five decades ago. The collection which includes cels, backgrounds, preliminary paintings and storyboard sketches was handpicked by Walt Disney himself and sent to Japan in 1960 for a touring exhibition to coincide with the opening of the film Sleeping Beauty.
Japanese University to return animation cels to Disney