Pat Sullivan and fan mail

Those of us with fond memories of our Dear Colleague Judy Nelson and her love of Felix the Cat will be interested to hear the Dreamworks Animation Studios are planning a new adaption of the cat and his bag of tricks.






http://www.thewrap.com/dreamworks-animation-acquires-felix-the-cat/

New App from the State Library of Victoria

Please see this interesting report from the ABC News website about a State Library of Victoria app that provides an historic walking tour of Melbourne.

Wonder if we should consider doing something similar for Sydney?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-03/melbournes-historic-buildings-on-show-with-new-app/5566632

Life Interrupted

Elise, Tim Fisher and co and the launch

On Monday night I was lucky enough to go to the launch of Life Interrupted curated by our former I& A colleague Elise Edmonds. Elise make a great speech about the huge effort that went in to the making of the exhibition and was sure to thank all the Library staff who contributed to it. Tim Fisher was as entertaining and animated as usual.

The exhibition is very moving so take your tissues. The Library's companion site is here: http://ww1.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Felix is back!

Felix the Cat cartoon strips / drawn by Pat Sullivan, ca. 1925-PXD 946

Some of you will remember our colleague Judy Nelson and her fascination with Felix the cat and the debate over his origins. She curated an exhibition called "Reclaiming Felix" based on material in our collections. It will be interesting to see with the news of Dreamworks animation studio buying the rights to a big screen adaptation what fun the feline still has in his bag of tricks. 

By the way, the picture of two children taking tea with a Felix doll in our work area is from the exhibition. Interestingly, the children are the actress Kate Fitzpatrick and her brother. The toy Felix was a gift from Mo himself Roy Rene!

Read the article about new film here:http://www.thewrap.com/dreamworks-animation-acquires-felix-the-cat/

Five Minutes with ... Michelle Richmond

From the Professional Historians Association NSW website, an interview with another one of our regulars!

http://www.phansw.org.au/five-minutes-with-michelle-richmond/

Five Minutes with ... Rosemary Kerr

From the Professional Historians Association NSW website, an interview with one of our regulars!

Five minutes with ... Rosemary Kerr

Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia

This new resource on the history of the Solomon Islands might be worth a look!

This online encyclopedia 'has 280,000 words and 703 entries, some small and others covering five thousand words. The 312 general entries cover the years from the declaration of the British Protectorate until independence in 1978. There are also 391 biographical entries, mainly centred on the Protectorate years, although some entries, particularly those on current political and religious leaders, extend to the present.'

http://www.solomonencyclopaedia.net/index.html