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Title: Animation Collection
Dates: 1911-1992
Collection Number: GC 1108
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 1 legal; 2 letter; 6 flat; 1 record storage; 1 bundle; ov folders)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: This artificial collection pertains to the history animation and cartoons. There are background scenes; cels, sequential
drawings; several scripts with the scenes and corresponding dialogue; and photographs including a sequential set labeled “Bray,
1911.”
Language of Material: English
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Animation Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
This artificial collection pertains to the history animation and cartoons. There are background scenes; cels, sequential
drawings; several scripts with the scenes and corresponding dialogue; and photographs including a sequential set labeled “Bray,
1911.” There is an emphasis in the collection of the early animation work of Walter Lantz; other noteworthy items include
the work of Leon Schlesinger Productions (pre-Warner Bros.) and Fleischer Studios. There are two later cartoon examples:
an Al Capp comic strip engraving plate (1988) and a Hanna-Barbera Productions storyboard (1992). 1911 - 1992, undated; (bulk
is before 1935)