In 1988, I signed a formal agreement with New York University to house fifteen years worth of my animation research materials. On October 5, 1989, The John Canemaker Animation Collection opened to animation history scholars and students in a special collection known as the Fales Library, which is located within the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at NYU in New York City.
My donation consisted of materials and data I had gathered through the years preparing and writing on animation art, artists and techniques in periodical articles, film reviews, and books, such as The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy (1977), Treasures of Disney Animation Art (1982), Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (1987). Included were dozens of files containing interview transcripts, correspondence, news clippings and publicity regarding such diverse animators as Tex Avery, Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker, Oskar Fischinger, Chuck Jones, Otto Messmer, Winsor McCay, Walt Disney, Kathy Rose, Art Babbitt, Walter Lantz, John Halas, Joy Batchelor, Shamus Culhane, Tissa David, Caroline Leaf, Richard Williams, George Griffin, Suzan Pitt, Michael Sporn, Dennis Pies, Len Lye,and George Dunning, I. Klein, Bruno Bozzetto, Jules Engel, as well as others.
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