Thursday, October 06, 2005
Thought for Food:
I saw the promised-land last night or the first promise of that land. Last night at the ASIFA-Hollywood Executive Board meeting I got to see the ways that the ASIFA Animation Center are being transformed into the Animation Archive / Library so long looked for and talked about.
I got there early, as I always do, because of the long commute (it is better to start early, miss the heavy traffic, and then hang out in Burbank then to curse the bumper to bumper). Steve Worth was the next one in because he has been waiting for the archive to happen for half his life and he can`t stay away now that it is.
Steve showed me some of the black and white Popeyes and there was one with an unedited politically incorrect scene that I have never seen. I had never seen! IT IS HAPPENING! The Archive is coming about. And that is so good. We, in the animation industry, need an archive that deals with the animators not the studios.
Each studio tells their own history and that is as it should be but until now no one has tried to tell the story of animation from the level of the people that moved in and out of the studio stories.
One thing that was decided at the Board Meeting, and it is something we have long known would happen, is the banning of food and drive from the archives premises. The Archives and Library are starting to look like an archive and library now and we can no longer afford to treat it as a clubhouse.
Our monthly Volunteer Meeting (last Wednesday of each month) will be the one function that will be most strongly impacted by this long anticipated policy change. For years we have had pizza delivered after the meeting as part of a social / networking event. This will no longer be possible because of the changing nature of the Animation Center.
The social / networking aspect of the event is still an important part of volunteer experience and will continue. But now that it is necessary to move food and drink out of the animation center, the social hour / networking event following the monthly Act of Membership Meeting will be moved down the street to the Coral Cafe. We hope everybody understands the need for this change. ¶ 8:11 AM
I saw the promised-land last night or the first promise of that land. Last night at the ASIFA-Hollywood Executive Board meeting I got to see the ways that the ASIFA Animation Center are being transformed into the Animation Archive / Library so long looked for and talked about.
I got there early, as I always do, because of the long commute (it is better to start early, miss the heavy traffic, and then hang out in Burbank then to curse the bumper to bumper). Steve Worth was the next one in because he has been waiting for the archive to happen for half his life and he can`t stay away now that it is.
Steve showed me some of the black and white Popeyes and there was one with an unedited politically incorrect scene that I have never seen. I had never seen! IT IS HAPPENING! The Archive is coming about. And that is so good. We, in the animation industry, need an archive that deals with the animators not the studios.
Each studio tells their own history and that is as it should be but until now no one has tried to tell the story of animation from the level of the people that moved in and out of the studio stories.
One thing that was decided at the Board Meeting, and it is something we have long known would happen, is the banning of food and drive from the archives premises. The Archives and Library are starting to look like an archive and library now and we can no longer afford to treat it as a clubhouse.
Our monthly Volunteer Meeting (last Wednesday of each month) will be the one function that will be most strongly impacted by this long anticipated policy change. For years we have had pizza delivered after the meeting as part of a social / networking event. This will no longer be possible because of the changing nature of the Animation Center.
The social / networking aspect of the event is still an important part of volunteer experience and will continue. But now that it is necessary to move food and drink out of the animation center, the social hour / networking event following the monthly Act of Membership Meeting will be moved down the street to the Coral Cafe. We hope everybody understands the need for this change. ¶ 8:11 AM
