Volunteer Call: The Animation Archive Bio Squad! One of the key resources in our virtual archive will be the biographical database. This will include information on the people who made the films... birth and death info, filmographies, biographical info, etc. This database will form the basic research for the main gallery of our proposed museum... the exhibit that tells the history of animation by the stories of the people, not by studio or character. So you can see that this is very important.

We are forming a team of volunteers to gather information for the biographical database... The ASIFA-Hollywood Bio Squad! The squad will take the names of the people who have won the Winsor McCay award over the years and gather research material related to them. This will involve going to the UCLA Film Library, searching newspapers and trades for references, gathering info from first hand sources through interviews, transcribing the tributes in the Annie Program Books, etc. Eventually, this information will be boiled down into a capsule bio and full bio for the biographical database.

There's no more important aspect of the archive that you can volunteer for. If you are interested in being a part of this, call me at the archive any Tuesday or Thursday during office hours (1pm to 9pm) and I'll put you on the list. The squad will be meeting sometime in November and names and tasks will be divided up at that meeting. Don't miss it.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive  ¶ 5:54 PM