A Forced March Down Memory Lane The big problem about moving really interesting animation artifacts is that they are really interesting. This last Wednesday night we needed to move a lot of stuff in a short time so that Antran could schedule the professional move of the safe that holds all of the rare animation stuff.

So I kept seeing this cool stuff go by that slowed down the move. I moved a whole cabinet filled with voice actor tapes (looked like 70`s and 80`s). Then I moved a box full of Pocahontas commemorative booklets.

The real stopper was a box with binders labeled Payroll Records Don Bluth Studios. Saw some Bata tapes go by from the 1995 Annies, one had Disney`s Gargoyles, what a great show that was.

We moved filing cabinet after filing cabinet filled with the job folders for now defunct small studios from the 50`s, 60`s, 70`s and 80`s. I saw painted backgrounds and cells and rough animation. And the hard part was I didn`t have time to stop and look at it, to shift through it, to dig through the treasures.

Man, this Virtual Archive is going to be so mega-incredible. Steve Worth is ordering the phase one equipment this month, the scanner, the workstation, and the file server. The shelving needs to go up. And then a lot of long hours going through the stuff, getting it in order, cataloging it. Count me in on that detail.  ¶ 9:26 PM