Welcome to the CHFA Blog, here you can hear behind the scenes stories from the archive from our Cosgrove Hall community. Starting with the archive’s journey to Waterside Arts we’ll be sharing our progress, CHF memories, interviews and fan stories along the way. If you’d like to get involved or speak about what Cosgrove Hall has meant to you please get in touch.
In early November Waterside were excited about hosting Steve Henderson, director of Manchester Animation Festival and a whole host of representatives from international animation archives for Materials in Motion. To coincide with this event we’re getting a bit technical, and have drawn together some observations about animation cels within our archive with some discussion about the degradation of plastics mostly used in hand drawn animation.
Read MoreAn overview of approaching the mammoth task of cataloguing a vast animation collection and some practical observations. We began cataloguing the animation collection in October 2017, this post breaks down this aspect of the documentation process.
A lot of work goes into housing the Cosgrove Hall Films Archive, it’s an interesting process to share because when you say ‘archive’ people imagine a polished, systemised complete store like in museums and galleries. Simply getting to that stage takes a lot of refining and attention to detail and can take years.
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