COMMENTS
Comic Mint your best source for rare, kooky, and classic animation art, is pleased to offer fans of "The George of the Jungle Show" this RARE Jay Ward Studio Scene Cel.

With most of the original George of the Jungle Show animated in Mexico, very few production cels survived. The growing popularity of animation cels, led to the Jay Ward Studio producing a series of hand-inked and hand-painted "Scene Cels” which were sold to collectors and fans at their Dudley Do-Right Emporium on Sunset Blvd during the 1980's.

This is a great hand inked and hand painted 12 field scene cel featuring George about to swing into a tree, with Ursula, Ape and Shep.

This vintage cel measures 12.5" x 10.5” inches (unframed), and has the Jay Ward Studio gold seal in the lower right corner.

BACKGROUND INFO:
George of the Jungle was an American animated series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV network ABC.

The title segment, George of the Jungle, is a parody of the popular Tarzan stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. George (voiced by Bill Scott), is a dim-witted but big-hearted "ape man" who is always called upon by District Commissioner Alistair (voiced by Paul Frees) to save inhabitants of the jungle from various threats.

In the opening title, George is depicted swinging on vines, repeatedly slamming face-first into trees or other obstacles even as theme-song singers warn him to "watch out for that tree!" Another running gag is that George keeps forgetting that he lives in a treehouse, falling to the ground every time he leaves home.