GoKawiilAnonymous buyer uploads Tippett Studios CD-ROM archive to Internet Archive
Following Tippett Studios' closure in August and the sale of its props and archives at a two-day auction, an anonymous bidder known as 'TippettFan' purchased a folder of CD-ROMs and other discs from the sale. That person has since digitized and uploaded 90 key, non-duplicated discs from the studio's archives to the Internet Archive, making them freely browsable online.
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The donor says they feared some of this material, much of it stored in high resolution, might otherwise never surface online or could vanish into private hands after the auction. Making the files public could preserve a record of Phil Tippett's stop-motion and effects work on films like Star Wars, RoboCop and Starship Troopers for researchers, fans and animators who might otherwise have lost access to it.
- Tippett Studios closed in August after financial troubles, with its archive sold at auction.
- An anonymous buyer called 'TippettFan' purchased a folder of CD-ROMs from the auction.
- 90 key discs have been digitized as ISO files and uploaded to the Internet Archive for free public access.
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