Thursday, February 23, 2006
I think that we have turned a corner with the ASIFA Animation Archives. The Herb Klynn pitch listed below is something new and something important. It is what didn`t get made.
For every animation that goes into production there most be 500 to 1000 pitches that do not get made. They are part of the times, they are important, but nobody has a record of them. Has even tried to make a record of them.
We have other pitches in the archives. And some day I would love to see an exhibit of pitches and pilots that never got picked up. I think it would be an important show for the ASIFA museum space or even a traveling exhibition making its way around animation schools. But that is for the future. That is where we are going.
What makes the Herb Klynn pitch of MANEMON so important is the added layer of archives process. Don`t get me wrong, this is a major find on many levels that have nothing to do with how it got to our door.
But if you have been following these pages then you followed the whole process from start to finish. You got to see the donating family and volunteers and then the report on the A.R.T. move of the donation from storage to archives and now you get to see something that has not been seen 30 years scanned and posted. This is animation history. And it is happening before our very eyes.
If you love animation, you have to be involved in the Animation Archives. It is the history of animation happening in a way that up until now was only experienced by top-level animation historians like John Canemaker and Jerry beck. If you do not live in the LA area and can`t get involved on a grass roots level you can still donate to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives. (archive PayPal button bottom of page) Then when you watch events like this take place in real time on the web, you can be part of the process. ¶ 4:36 AM
For every animation that goes into production there most be 500 to 1000 pitches that do not get made. They are part of the times, they are important, but nobody has a record of them. Has even tried to make a record of them.
We have other pitches in the archives. And some day I would love to see an exhibit of pitches and pilots that never got picked up. I think it would be an important show for the ASIFA museum space or even a traveling exhibition making its way around animation schools. But that is for the future. That is where we are going.
What makes the Herb Klynn pitch of MANEMON so important is the added layer of archives process. Don`t get me wrong, this is a major find on many levels that have nothing to do with how it got to our door.
But if you have been following these pages then you followed the whole process from start to finish. You got to see the donating family and volunteers and then the report on the A.R.T. move of the donation from storage to archives and now you get to see something that has not been seen 30 years scanned and posted. This is animation history. And it is happening before our very eyes.
If you love animation, you have to be involved in the Animation Archives. It is the history of animation happening in a way that up until now was only experienced by top-level animation historians like John Canemaker and Jerry beck. If you do not live in the LA area and can`t get involved on a grass roots level you can still donate to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives. (archive PayPal button bottom of page) Then when you watch events like this take place in real time on the web, you can be part of the process. ¶ 4:36 AM
