Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Women in Animation
- Abstract:
- Women in Animation (now WIA) was created in 1993 to support the small number of women in the field of animation through community building and professional networking opportunities. The collection consists of oral history transcripts from interviews conducted by the organization, Women in Animation, and its business records.
- Extent:
- 8.6 linear feet (22 boxes), 17 audiovisual carriers (17 cassettes), 9 audiovisual carriers (9 unprocessed videocassettes), and 17 born-digital carriers (10 unprocessed optical discs, 6 unprocessed floppy disks, 1 unprocessed hard drive)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Women in Animation oral histories and records (PASC 222). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of oral history transcripts from interviews conducted by the organization, Women in Animation, and its business records. Contains interviews with women pioneers from the animation industry, including Frances Arriola, Susan Ashley, Barbara Baldwin, Betty Brooks, Martha Buckley, Xenia De Mattia, Becky Fallberg, Mary Jane Frost, Grace Godino, Wilma Guenot, Julie Harvey, Anneline Liu, Joan Orbison, Sylvia Roemer, Martha Sigall, Gini Swift and Auril Thompson. The interviews are varied in terms of positions held and talents expressed while in the animation industry.
- Biographical / historical:
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Women in Animation (now WIA) was created in 1993 to support the small number of women in the field of animation through community building and professional networking opportunities. Since then, WIA has evolved into the advocacy group supporting female- identifying and non-binary people in animation, visual effects, and gaming, and includes over 11,000 members worldwide.
Description from Women in Animation website, accessed July 2024.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Women in Animation, Inc., 1999.
- Processing information:
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Final processing by Preksha Ambrish in consultation with Kelly Besser, 2024.
Digital materials were received on 10 optical discs. All digital file naming, organization, and arrangement created by Women in Animation was retained.
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- Arrangement:
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This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Oral histories
- Series 2: Records
- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS DIGITAL AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed digital and audiovisual materials. For information about the access status of the material that you are looking for, refer to the Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed digital and audiovisual materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Women in Animation oral histories and records (PASC 222). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988