{"id":76356,"date":"2022-12-19T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=76356"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T18:11:31","slug":"the-animation-history-bibliography-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/the-animation-history-bibliography-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Animation History Bibliography – UPDATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the bi-annual update for The Animation History Bibliography<\/a>!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a busy and exciting seven months, both for me and the Bibliography itself. Thanks to your helpful suggestions, the compendium of media with a focus on Animation History has grown by leaps and bounds! Let me catch you up on what\u2019s changed, what new media has been added, and ask you, \u201cWhat\u2019s in a name?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bibliography has grown to cover over 3,175 books (This count includes reprints\/second editions and beyond). There is also a new and useful index spreadsheet summarizing the entire Bibliography in a single page<\/a>. You can use it to quickly check to see if a title is listed or not at a glance or find books by the same author.<\/p>\n

Since the original launch back in March, the addition of several subcategories has been necessary to make things easier to read and to organize. The biggest and newest Categories cover the Disney Theme Parks<\/a>. I plan on adding additional subcategories to cover prominent studios that have a large representation of literature, like Fleischer Studios, in a future update.<\/p>\n

Animation hasn\u2019t always had a lot of books written about it. In fact, it really wasn’t until the end of the 1980\u2019s that books on the many subjects of animation began to spring forth exponentially continuing until today. Using what\u2019s in the Bibliography, check out this graph of books published by year:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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I can\u2019t wait to compare this graph to a timeline of periodicals published over time. I\u2019d be curious what, if any, correlation to book publications might exist. The unfortunate part of that plan is availability. Animation History periodicals are even more challenging to keep track of than books. I\u2019ve been keeping an eye out on second hand options and, luckily, Archive.org exists. Quite a few animation magazines have been uploaded for posterity, and the ones I\u2019ve found are listed in Periodicals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I implore copyright holders of early periodicals to consider uploading their works to online archives or re-printing for profit. A couple of reasons to consider to do this are for both the historical record and to be enjoyed by those who may not have known (or been around) during their publications. You never know what can be learned from these early publications.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

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As an example, while researching and scanning my own collection of periodicals, I came across Reg Hartt’s 1980 Cineforum through an in-magazine advertisement. I did a Google search and found that Reg Hartt had uploaded the stellar Friz Freleng interview from that event on his own YouTube channel:<\/p>\n