diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index e6f88718d8..3afd5dd051 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - Fix handling of custom colours in wxPropertyGrid choices (Artur Wieczorek).
 - Add "hint" property to wxTextCtrl XRC handler.
 - Allow using wxALIGN_CENTER, and not just CENTRE, in XRC for wxStaticText.
+- Handle files used in wxAnimationCtrl "animation" property in wxrc.
 
 wxGTK:
 
diff --git a/utils/wxrc/wxrc.cpp b/utils/wxrc/wxrc.cpp
index fc522790b2..3f7a7a1384 100644
--- a/utils/wxrc/wxrc.cpp
+++ b/utils/wxrc/wxrc.cpp
@@ -495,6 +495,10 @@ static bool NodeContainsFilename(wxXmlNode *node)
            return true;
    }
 
+   // wxAnimationCtrl animations:
+   if ( name == wxS("animation") )
+       return true;
+
    // URLs in wxHtmlWindow:
    if ( name == wxT("url") &&
         parent != NULL &&