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Before he became a Caldecott-winning author of children's books such as Anansi the Spider, Gerald McDermott made short animated 16 mm films. His 1968 film Sunflight retells the myth, in animation and music, of Daedulus and Icharus, who flew too close to the sun. Long out of print, Sunflight is now available for viewing on the Internet Archive thanks to a new project by the Academic Film Archive of North America to give new life to endangered films.

The Academic Film Archive collects and preserves the educational films that were once show in schools and other settings. The group screens a limited number of films -- mostly in its home base of San Jose, California and St. Louis. Now it's seeking donations from the public to help digitize the films and post them to the 'Net.