Leaving a legacy for film, animation fans to enjoy Erin McCracken
erin.mccracken@metroland.com
Rule number one for serious collectors: don’t throw anything away. What began as a childhood passion for drawing cartoons and collecting comic books has, almost 60 years later, developed into what Peter Adamakos believes could be the largest private collection of animation and movie memorabilia in Canada, with well over 100,000 items, many of them rare, signed original pieces. “Just the (animation) art work alone we’ve got about 75,000 (items),” said Adamakos. “When people know you like these things, instead of just recycling, (they’ll say) ‘Do you want these old movie magazines from the ’50s?’” His Hunt Club home is dotted with just a small portion of his collection – thousands of items are safely stored off site. Old metal film canisters line one wall in his kitchen, some of them dating back to the silent
film days. Others feature Disney movie trailers. A few movie posters on a bedroom wall advertise such film classics as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Gone with the Wind. A Star Wars movie poster advertises the Revenge of the Jedi before the film was renamed Return of the Jedi. Others depict Mickey Mouse in Disney’s Fantasia. Decades of effort have gone into amassing the collection, through which Adamakos has found tremendous joy since he was a child with visions of following in the footsteps of iconic animator Walt Disney. But now he’s planning to sell everything off for two reasons. Adamakos, 68, doesn’t have anyone to pass the collection down to, and he said he hasn’t combed through many of the items in decades, and believes other movie and animation fans would appreciate the opportunity to own a piece of history. See ANIMATOR, page 36
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Hunt Club resident Peter Adamakos is in the process of working with his team of volunteers to catalogue his extensive collection of movie and animation memorabilia, which includes film reels dating back to the silent film age. He is hoping to have 20,000 items ready for sale this fall. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
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