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Where can a digitised blank paper animation exposure sheet (X-sheet) from a named studio and date be found in a public collection, and what columns does it show?

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The only dated, named-studio X-sheet found in public catalogues is an Internet Archive user upload (UPA New York, 1952; one JPEG, no licence, no text layer, provenance a discontinued blog), so whether it is blank and what columns it has are unestablished without viewing the image. A generic classic layout (Action, Dial, five cel-level columns, Background, Camera; 96 rows = 4 seconds) comes from a 2023 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 teaching item with no studio or date. Institutional finding-aid examples were not found in limited queries (not proof of absence). Curator qualifications: Metadata/OCR read 2026-10-22; no images viewed; uploader fields not recorded. UPA image rights not stated; 1952 may be the sheet or item date. Negative search result is limited-query. Limitations: Metadata/OCR read 2026-10-22; no images viewed; uploader fields not recorded. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605",
      "note": "archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet",
      "note": "archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/download/dsource_exposure-sheet/exposure-sheet_djvu.txt",
      "note": "archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/metadata/dragon-tales-model-packs-storyboards-more",
      "note": "archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exposure_sheet&action=raw",
      "note": "archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/search/?q=%22exposure+sheet%22+animation&fo=json&c=25",
      "note": "archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The only dated, named-studio X-sheet found in public catalogues is an Internet Archive user upload (UPA New York, 1952; one JPEG, no licence, no text layer, provenance a discontinued blog), so whether it is blank and what columns it has are unestablished without viewing the image. A generic classic layout (Action, Dial, five cel-level columns, Background, Camera; 96 rows = 4 seconds) comes from a 2023 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 teaching item with no studio or date. Institutional finding-aid examples were not found in limited queries (not proof of absence). · locator: archive.org/metadata/img-0104_202605; archive.org/metadata/dsource_exposure-sheet; exposure-sheet_djvu.txt L149-174 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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