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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
