Leeds Animation Workshop Archive

by Sharon Connell, Rosie Shepley, Olivia Weekes. This article will outline steps taken by University of Leeds Special Collections to assess the condition of animation artworks in the Leeds Animation Workshop archive and develop long-term preservation and storage solutions. The Leeds Animation Workshop Archive Leeds Animation Workshop (LAW) is a women’s collective set up in …

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 …

Paint questionnaire: the results

Today we closed our questionnaire in which we asked Dutch animators about their experiences with paint on cels during and shortly after the production of the film. We received a total of 24 responses of which 18 had actually worked with cels and gave us some very insightful answers. 18 respondents is not enough to …

Life just got more difficult! The first results of our paint questionnaire

Until now we received 23 responses to our paint questionnaire. 23 might seem a disappointing number, but it actually is a big chunk of the total number of Dutch animators who have worked with cels, are still alive and have an email address. With thanks to the team of the Holland Animation Film Festival, who kindly sent out our …

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 …