Drawing by Raven Loc

A.R.T.

Yes it was a bummer that I didn`t get to the AFI Fred Crippen event yesterday and yes I am stiff and sore this morning after moving about 500 boxes filled with videos (over 25,000 tapes of world animation from the early 70`s till 2001) and another 250 boxes filled with paperwork and animation magazines. But I would do it again. I will do it again. The stuff we are saving is priceless.

We saw a 1 inch tape of pre-Luxo Jr. Pixar animations and I saw a bata of the Hubley`s The Hat go by while I was sorting the boxes of videos from the boxes of paperwork. And the 35 mm and 16 mm, we haven`t even gotten into that yet. All of it saved from being broken up or thrown away. I feel good about myself today. I did something that has long-term meaning for the history of animation.

The Animation Rescue Team is a valuable part of the ASIFA-Hollywood Archive project and I feel proud to have had the idea of formalize what ASIFA-Hollywood has been doing for year and year and give our volunteers a team name.

I think that the ART volunteers should have t-shirts that marks them as members of an elite team. I am going to push real hard for the creation of such a T-shirt at the next board meeting. Then we can have a design contest for the logo. More on this when I am done making a pest of myself at the next board meeting.
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