Today, we digitized a batch of wonderful 1950s Christmas cards from the Disney studio from 1948 through the mid-1950s. The designs on these cards are so much fun, it makes you wish the films themselves looked this cartoony.
There’s a point that I need to make every once in a while… The Animation Archive Project Blog is NOT the archive itself. It is only a forum for us to report the progress of the project and show examples of the sorts of things we were working on that particular day. Today, we digitized Christmas cards… tomorrow it might be an illustrated children’s book from the 1920s… the next day a clip from an animated cartoon by Paul Terry… there is no order implied or intended. The order comes in the way keyword searches link material within the database itself.
The other thing to keep in mind is that for every image you see here on this blog, there are dozens and dozens that we don’t post. Our database has grown into the terabytes. There’s no way that we will ever be able to post all of it online. My hope is to eventually syndicate the archive as kiosks at university libraries, studios and to Animation Resources members all over the world. But that’s quite a ways in the future!
I want to thank the family of Clair Weeks for sharing these great cards with us.
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