John Canemaker

John Canemaker

John Canemaker (born 1943) is an Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department. Since 1988 he has directed the program and is currently a tenured full professor. From 2001-2002 he was Acting Chair of the NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Department. In 2006, his film "", a 28-minute animated piece about Canemaker's relationship with his father, won the Academy Award for best animated short. In 2007 the same piece picked up an Emmy award for its graphic and artistic design.

Raised in Elmira, New York, Canemaker began an acting career which included off-Broadway and advertising work in New York City from 1961 to 1965. In 1967, after a two-year stint in the Army, Canemaker, with funds from acting assignments in TV commercials (he appeared in over 35 advertisements for major products, most famously leading a line of "fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks" through Central Park for Armour hotdogs)—and appearing as a cast member of the 1972 WCBS-TV show "Patchwork Family", in which he drew on a large sketching pad—he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Marymount Manhattan College in 1974 and Master of Fine Arts in Film from New York University in 1976.

While studying for his Bachelor of Arts degree, Canemaker's childhood interest in animation revived. He began making sponsored animated shorts and wrote the first of more than 100 articles on animation history. His first book, the story of the making of Richard Williams' "Raggedy Ann and Andy", was published in 1977 as "The Animated Raggedy Ann and Andy." In 1982, he wrote the introduction to "Treasures of Disney Animation Art," and, in 1987, he published, "Winsor McCay - His Life and Art," and, in 1991, "Felix, the Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat." There followed "Tex Avery: The MGM Years" and "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists (both in 1997), "Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards" (1999), "Walt Disney's Nine Old men and the Art of Animation" (2001), and "The Art and Flair of Mary Blair" (2003).

His research in the history of animation inspired two of his own films, "Remembering Winsor McCay" (1976) and "Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat" (1977).

Canemaker's filmography includes independently-made animated shorts that are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Among them: The 40's (1974), "Street Freaks" (1975), "Confessions of a Stardreamer" (1978), "The Wizard's Son" (1981), "Bottom's Dream" (1983), "Confessions of a Stand-Up" (1993), "Bridgehampton" (1998).

In the early 1980s, Canemaker animated several Children's Television Workshop films, TV commercials, and, in 1981, created the animation sequences for the Warner Bros. feature "The World According to Garp". He designed and directed animation sequences in the Academy Award-winning HBO documentary "You Don't Have to Die" (1988) and the Peabody Award-winning CBS documentary "Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse" (1994).

"John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon", a DVD/home video collection of his films, is distributed by Milestone Film & Video/Image Entertainment. In addition, Canemaker writes regularly on animation for the New York Times and is on-camera and audio commentator for DVD versions of "The Fantasia Anthology", "Dumbo", "Beauty and the Beast", "Peter Pan", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Cut-up: The Films of Grant Munro", and "Winsor McCay: The Master Edition". He has appeared on NBC's Today Show, PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Entertainment Tonight, and has lectured throughout the United States and in Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and Wales.

Books:
* "Felix, The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat", 1991, Pantheon, New York, ISBN 0-679-40127-X.
* "Storytelling in Animation: The Art of the Animated Image, Volume 2", editor, 1988, The American Film Institute.
* "Paperdreams; The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboarding".
* "Winsor McCay: His Life and Art", 1987.
* "Treasures of Disney Animation Art" (with Robert E. Abrams), 1982.
* "The Animated Raggedy Ann and Andy", 1977.

External links

* [http://www.johncanemaker.com www.johncanemaker.com]
* [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/cane.html John Canemaker Animation Collection] at NYU Fales Library
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* "My Oscar Experience: An Interview with John Canemaker": [http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/my-oscar-experience-interview-with.html Part 1] , [http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/11/my-oscar-experience-interview-with_28.html Part 2]


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