Pinocchio & Pulp Fiction Lead Academy Museum Acquisitions
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| Animation maquettes for Walt Disney Studios' Pinocchio, 1940. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has announced a group of acquisitions including animation maquettes for Pinocchio (both Walt Disney's and Guillermo del Toro's versions) and Quentin Tarantino's handwritten script for Pulp Fiction. Several objects relate to recent museum exhibitions: animation art, posters, and an animation table from Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli; Mink Stole's cat eye glasses from John Waters' Pink Flamingos. Personal collections of Curtis Hanson, Barbara Kopple, Tom Sternberg, Oliver Stone, and Paul Verhoeven were added.
The Academy Museum says it has 52 million objects in its collection. Part of that is now searchable in a collection website.
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| Noboru Yoshida, drawing for Ponyo, 2008. Studio Ghibli animation collection. Image courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library |
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