Interpretive animation means giving life and vitality to historic sites

Evidence

If you do not happen to like the word “animation,” perhaps you will prefer to call it “local color” or “atmosphere.” I like the word animation to describe the thing, because to animate is to give life, to vivify. Again, the definition is not so important if we can agree on what the activity is, or can be. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 474

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines interpretive ‘animation’ by its root: to give life, to vivify — atmospheric livingness of a preserved place.
• XREF: connects to: Living activity transforms a preserved house from relic into peopled home — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 475; Animation was the foundational laboratory that first spatialized time in audiovisual media — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655

Broader Connections

• Animation was the foundational laboratory that first spatialized time in audiovisual media #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655