HHA PROJECTS
Since its formal establishment in late 2014, members of the Hyperion Historical Alliance have engaged in several professional efforts, including:
- Digitizing the interviews with Disney artists conducted by historians Michael Barrier and Paul F. Anderson
- Assisting with locating and preserving artwork by pioneering Disney female artists Retta Scott and Sylvia Holland
- Locating and assisting with the publication of autobiographies by Eric Larson, Mel Shaw, and Pinto Colvig, among others
- Preserving rare memos, treatments and scripts from the Woolie Reitherman and Dick Huemer collections which shed some light on Disney projects from the 1930s to the 1970s
- Locating and digitizing artwork and photographs from Ken O’Connor, Al Taliaferro, Joe Rinaldi and many other studio artists
- Locating and digitizing the collection of “People and Places” cinematographer Ernst Heiniger
- Digitizing the diaries of Leo Salkin
- Locating and digitizing various materials of The Walt Disney Studios' Ink & Paint Department
- Assisting the non-profit Ryman Arts educational organization with cataloging/digitizing Herb Ryman’s personal files
