Life Lesson: If you ever get work at an animation studio, SAVE EVERYTHING!!

[brendala]

I have a distant relative named Ruth who used to work as an "Ink and Paint Girl" at Disney. Her first professional art job was painting the cels for Snow White! Needless to say, I love talking to her at family reunions and our last conversation went something like this...

-Me: "I take it you didn't save any of those cels?"
-Ruth: "Oh God no! We were so relieved to finally be done with that production that we threw the damn things on the floor and slid around on them!"
-Me: "Bet you regret that now, huh?"
-Ruth: *sigh* "I wish I had known that people would actually be interested in collecting them someday. If I had just saved one I'd be set for life!"
-Me: "If I ever get work at an animation studio, I'm taking everything that isn't nailed down!"
-Ruth: *giggle* "That's right! Learn from my mistake, bubbeleh!"

Comments

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

*laugh* This sounds like the fate of my mom's Barbies. She had original Barbie, original Skipper, all the clothes and playsets, etc. She preserved them carefully ... then passed them down to her small daughter who had no concept of "this might be worth something in the future."

Yeah, I'm still kicking myself over that!

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Considering many expected the movie to fail horribly, who could have ever suspected such things would be so treasured later?

The same thing happened with my mom and her Beatles records. She collected them all back in the day, love and adored them, but then when she wasn't so fanatical about the group and getting ready to move off to college, she gifted them all to a friend. She's kicking herself a great deal nowadays, but so it goes. (And with stories like this, she wonders why I hang onto things for so long!)

[dj-rocca.livejournal.com]

Sounds like me and certain toys I had growing up...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I don't think the aspect of collecting wasn't quite so present in people's minds back in the day. Even nowadays, people just think about collecting for selfish reasons (It's not conserving the past of feeding archives, it's about Money!)