Foam Latex A Case Study in the Cosgrove Hall Films Archive

The Cosgrove Hall Films Archive is a small animation archive operating out of Waterside Art inSale, Manchester in the borough of Trafford. We are custodians of the animation archive and look afterall the physical assets leftover from Cosgrove Hall Films / Productions. Cosgrove Hall Films producedmodel animation and hand-drawn animation, so our collection comprises stop …

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 …

Buying and selling animation artwork a conversation with Hans Walther

Hans Walther is a  Dutch film maker and animation enthusiast. In the animation world he is known as the talk show host of the KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival. But Hans Walther is also one of the most important animation artwork collectors in the Netherlands. We talked with Hans Walther to learn more about the market …