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 library to peruse the periodical indexes, culling information from the web or books on animation, gathering info from first hand sources through interviews, transcribing the tributes in the Annie Program Books, etc. 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, please visit the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Biopedia. You'll find a list of names there. Each name links to an information page. You can submit your information through the comments link on each page.

Please set aside a few hours to help us build out the Biopedia.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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