Monday, September 12, 2005
Report of Archives Sort:
Seven people helped for at least part of today`s 6-hour session. Our main focus was a box-level sort (i.e., if we saw a whole box that was mostly not worth saving, out it went) and compacting multiple loosely packed boxes into one.
The box-level sort mostly resulted in about 10 boxes of old Annie VHS tapes that were just clips, and hence not worth saving (VHS doesn`t digitize well). We were particularly successful with compacting; I don`t have an exact count, but I`d estimate we had about 75-100 empty boxes when we were done. That`s mostly because of the WAC entries, which were very inefficiently stored. Some boxes of magazines also had a great deal of empty space which we were able to fill. At a future date, we`ll take the time to do a secondary sort on these magazine boxes, reducing most of them to clip files.
The goal was to clear out the front portion of the Animation Center so that it could be used for its intended purpose, and that is indeed done now.
I really wish I had kept notes on some of the bizarre titles we saw; if the shorts we sifted through are half as interesting as their titles, we definitely have to have a screening some day. Another treasure I want to spend more time with is a box of the Frostbite Falls Gazette, a newsletter/fanzine for lovers of Moose and Squirrel. We also ran across some neat publicity photos for Beany and Cecil, including a photo of Bob Clampett at the drawing board, and another drawing of the main characters (even Dishonest John) all wearing mouse-ear hats for some reason.
The next step is to load the boxes we sorted today into a truck, along with the Spumco archives currently at the Victory building, and put them into a temporary storage space. This will give us room to begin organizing the back room into something useful instead of a disorganized heap of stuff. Look for a call-for-volunteers for this presently; probably won`t take more than a couple hours, since all the boxes are now very near the back door.
Thanks to today`s helpers: Sharon Eisenberg, Jason Jones, Eric Graf, Paul Abramson, Linda Lee, Dave-who-wouldn`t-give-his-last-name, and I think one more whose name I didn`t get. And of course Steve Worth, who came by at the end to provide the big picture to everyone.
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Jon Reeves
The Internet Movie Database http://imdb.com "My God! It`s full of stars!" ¶ 6:29 AM
Seven people helped for at least part of today`s 6-hour session. Our main focus was a box-level sort (i.e., if we saw a whole box that was mostly not worth saving, out it went) and compacting multiple loosely packed boxes into one.
The box-level sort mostly resulted in about 10 boxes of old Annie VHS tapes that were just clips, and hence not worth saving (VHS doesn`t digitize well). We were particularly successful with compacting; I don`t have an exact count, but I`d estimate we had about 75-100 empty boxes when we were done. That`s mostly because of the WAC entries, which were very inefficiently stored. Some boxes of magazines also had a great deal of empty space which we were able to fill. At a future date, we`ll take the time to do a secondary sort on these magazine boxes, reducing most of them to clip files.
The goal was to clear out the front portion of the Animation Center so that it could be used for its intended purpose, and that is indeed done now.
I really wish I had kept notes on some of the bizarre titles we saw; if the shorts we sifted through are half as interesting as their titles, we definitely have to have a screening some day. Another treasure I want to spend more time with is a box of the Frostbite Falls Gazette, a newsletter/fanzine for lovers of Moose and Squirrel. We also ran across some neat publicity photos for Beany and Cecil, including a photo of Bob Clampett at the drawing board, and another drawing of the main characters (even Dishonest John) all wearing mouse-ear hats for some reason.
The next step is to load the boxes we sorted today into a truck, along with the Spumco archives currently at the Victory building, and put them into a temporary storage space. This will give us room to begin organizing the back room into something useful instead of a disorganized heap of stuff. Look for a call-for-volunteers for this presently; probably won`t take more than a couple hours, since all the boxes are now very near the back door.
Thanks to today`s helpers: Sharon Eisenberg, Jason Jones, Eric Graf, Paul Abramson, Linda Lee, Dave-who-wouldn`t-give-his-last-name, and I think one more whose name I didn`t get. And of course Steve Worth, who came by at the end to provide the big picture to everyone.
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Jon Reeves
The Internet Movie Database http://imdb.com "My God! It`s full of stars!" ¶ 6:29 AM
