Published between 1982 and 1995
Stained glass windows, gun cotton, incendiaries and Celluloid By Brian Clark of Film Sales Ltd. The West window of the Church of the House of Prayer, Newark, New Jersey bears a spiritual likeness and Latin inscription dedicated to the Reverend Hannibal Goodwin. The motivation for this stained glass dedication was not so much related to … Read more
At this level triacetate has shown itself to be in with more than a good chance. Film Sales’ search for an animation-copy-suitable triacetate cel concentrated on a formulation that provided the highest softening point to withstand that temperature, and one whose production ensures the absolute minimum of residual solvent. Removal of casting solvent could never … Read more
Father Robert Murphy tells of his interest in collecting animation art. Like so many Americans of my generation (I was born in 1948), my introduction to animation came from television. As a child, I would rush home to watch The Mickey Mouse Club on television after school. This programme featured the low vaudeville of the … Read more
As the interest in animation art grew, many small dealers sprang up across the country to compete with the pricey auctions and the “official” Disney-licensed art galleries. For a while in the late 1970s, one could pick up one of the dwarfs from Snow White from a small dealer for about the same price you … Read more
Lorraine Thomas, Supervisor of Paint and Trace talks with Ken Clark. KC: How many people work in this department? LT: We have eight cel painters and are about to employ three more, in another room we have two artists who do the airbrushing, and two who choose the colours and do the colour mixing. I’ve … Read more