Akira materials assembled by Joe Peacock With the financial support of ASIFA Hollywood, the Academy Archives now provides a permanent home for the largest private collection of Akira materials.

Collectors are often way ahead of the curve when it comes to pop culture materials whose significance is not always readily apparent.  Their foresight can lead them to the acquisition of items that will become quite valuable but every so often, we meet a collector who has the means to seek a way to keep …

Towards an International Council on Animation Archives

In 2017 Steve Henderson completed a PhD research into animation archiving. His research looked into the creation of a system of archive management for animation materials and British children’s television animation, at Loughborough University, UK. One of his observations was that the important actors working with animation artwork collections do not talk to each other …

Animation Artwork Collections Questionnaire Let us know about the items in your collection

    Do you have animation artwork in your collection? Then we would like to know about it! Questionnaire If you have animation artwork in your collection, please let us know and fill in this short questionnaire It will take you no more than five minutes. We will communicate our findings to all of you …

Studying animation artwork preservation in the world of animation academia

The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is a worldwide network of animation scholars. At the recent SAS conference at the University of Padua the importance of animation preservation was widely recognized: many scholars use animation films and archives for research in one form or another. In the presentations of historian Donald Crafton and preservation specialist Ron …