John Canemaker Trailers
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John Canemaker has won an Academy Award, an Emmy and a Peabody Award for his animation and is an internationally-renowned animation historian and teacher. A key figure in American independent animation, Canemaker’s work has a distinctive personal style emphasizing emotion, personality and dynamic visual expression.
His film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, won an Oscar in 2005 for Best Animated Short, as well as an Emmy. A 28-minute autobiographical essay about a troubled father/son relationship, The Moon and the Son marked a personal and professional breakthrough in animation storytelling. Canemaker is also a noted author who has written nine books on animation, as well as numerous essays, articles and monographs for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
Most Popular John Canemaker Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
30 October 2010
The story of the unlikely alliance between two of the most renowned innovators of the twentieth century: brilliantly eccentric Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and American entertainment innovator Walt Disney.
22 April 1990
After learning about pollution a group of creatures called Zwibble Dibbles, decide to throw a party for the Earth to raise awareness.
22 March 2010
The making of Dumbo (1941).
01 January 1980
This educational science program features the story of Dr. Alfred Clothear and his discovery of how bears know when to sleep for the winter.
01 January 2005
Short Documentary on the art of Mary Blair: An extraordinary talented artist.
05 January 2005
An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father.
18 November 1987
The Primm family moves into an old brownstone house on East 88th Street, where they find a crocodile named Lyle in their bathtub.
14 November 2000
Documentary on the making of Walt Disney’s Fantasia.
07 November 2019
The film follows Wing Biddlebaum, a lonely former schoolteacher whose “hands” led to a scandal that drove him from his previous town and life’s calling.
01 January 1976
The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films.
28 February 2006
A documentary on the making of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp created for the 2006 Platinum DVD.
30 July 2007
A documentary about the early days of animation.
16 October 2012
Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.
10 April 1986
In 1986, seventeen years after Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s animated conversation about love and six years after the beloved Beatle’s assassination, Ono commissioned independent animator John Canemaker to create a short animated film based on Lennon’s drawings, music, and interviews.
01 December 1987
It's Christmas Eve and all the children around the world are asleep and dreaming of the toys that Santa Claus will bring - except at the South Pole, where they've never celebrated Christmas.
01 January 1974
The essence of the 1940s, to the lively beat of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." A rapidly paced collage of the fads, fashions, and personalities of wartime, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, a time capsule of a special decade.
01 May 1984
The short takes as its inspiration Bottom's contemplation on the "dream" he has experienced in the middle acts of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", in which his head is transformed into that of an ass and the Fairy Queen Titania is made to fall in love with him.
23 October 2001
Bonus feature on the Dumbo DVD.
20 October 1995
Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.
03 November 2008
A documentary about the early days of animation.
01 August 2021
Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.
09 October 2001
Released as a Bonus Feature for Disney's Platinum DVD Edition of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" this short documentary shows how this classic film came to life.
01 January 1974
An urban fable about a young street musician who finds competition for space to play his much a bit too tough, until he joins in the live-and-let-live attitude of the other street "freaks.
08 September 2008
The year was 1941, and the world was on the brink of war. In an effort to improve relations between the Americas, the Roosevelt administration called upon one of Hollywood’s most influential filmmakers to embark on a special goodwill tour.
04 October 2005
The making of Cinderella (1950).
07 November 2015
The unlikely story of 106-year old Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, and how he overcame poverty and racism in America to become a celebrated modernist painter, Hollywood sketch artist, and “Disney Legend” for his groundbreaking work on the classic animated film, Bambi.
05 May 2005
Documentary about the influence of legendary animator Tex Avery and the groundbreaking digital special effects of “The Mask.
02 January 2002
A stop-motion film, written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank.
17 June 1999
In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee.
24 March 2009
Blending the animation of Chuck Jones’ original drawings, traditional documentary elements, and one of Jones’ most intimate interviews before his death in 2002, this biography imaginatively brings to life the complicated and difficult childhood of the man who dreamed up Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
11 April 1977
Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat
14 October 1998
A lyrical and personal study of Canemaker's Long Island garden through the seasons, based on paintings, to an original jazz score by Fred Hersch.
01 January 1979
The extemporaneous musings of an actress about her career provide the springboard for an imaginative fantasy on the fragility of fame.
