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THE BA ER A NIM ATION CO. JANUARY The Guild partners with ASIFA- Hollywood to host the first Afternoon of Remembrance at the Hollywood Methodist Church. The event, created to honor those in our animation family who passed away the previous year, moves a few years later to the Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn and eventually to our own Hulett Hall. Local 839 offers a 401(k) Pension Plan to supplement the two pensions of the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plan. SPRING Local 839 signs a contract with the brand-new DreamWorks Animation. We are the first union the studio signs with! 1996 1999 JUNE Stewie and the rest of the Griffin gang join Local 839 as Fox's Family Guy becomes a union shop. For nearly a decade, TOM SITO serves not only as Guild president, but also as its unofficial historian. 1992-2001 The American Animation Institute registers more than 1,200 students for 38 classes, giving it the distinction of being the largest training program for screen cartoonists in the United States. 1994 Having served as the L. A . animation unit for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Baer Animation Company, founded by Dale and Jane Baer, signs with Local 839. 1993 SUMMER The Guild gains three new signatory studios: Rich Entertainment, Kroyer Films, and Leiva- Rees Productions. 1995 JULY The Guild enters the computer age according to The Peg- Board: "We're proud to announce our new Local 839 World Wide Web page!" SUMMER As IATSE celebrates its 100th anniversary, it charters the Animation Guild IATSE Local 843 in Orlando. This is the first new screen cartoonists guild in 41 years, since our charter in 1952. F E AT U R E 14 KEYFRAME