AnimEigo Anime Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials from the private Wilmington, North Carolina company, AnimEigo. The AnimEigo Anime Collection includes Japanese animated cels, VHS covers for anime films, and anime film laserdiscs.
Dates
- Creation: 1964-1995
Creator
- AnimEigo, Inc (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Copyright Statement
Copyright retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Established in Wilmington in 1989, AnimEigo is the oldest surviving Anime company in North America. Anime titles the company released include, “Bubblegum Crisis”, “Urusei Yatsura”, “Kimagure Orange Road”, and “Oh My Goddess!”. AnimEigo was also one of the first companies to release Japanese samurai films in North America.
Extent
6 Containers (Contains 1 document box, 3 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 map case folder)
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by Kim Phipps in January 2002.
Processing Information
Processed by Christie Chambers. Revised and updated for conversion to Archon in April, 2014 by Rebecca Baugnon and Maya Rodgers.
- Title
- AnimEigo Anime Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Special Collections Staff
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository