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Robert Cannon (July 16, 1909 - June 9, 1964) was an American animator.
Robert 'Bobo' Cannon was born in Ohio. Not much is known about his early life, including the city he was born in. He began his animation career at Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1934, assisting ace animators Robert Clampett and Chuck Jones. After a two-year apprenticeship, he graduated to full animator.
Cannon became an integral part of that anarchic Warner Brothers in-house cartoon outfit, known as 'Termite Terrace' (due to its cramped and austere quarters). In the process, he labored on such iconic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd. He animated for Tex Avery, Clampett and Jones from 1936 to 1944, after which he became co-founder and a leading light in the innovative United Productions of America (UPA). Unlike at Warners, UPA allowed him to direct, including cartoons featuring the famous character of Mr. Magoo.
Cannon later taught animation at San Fernando Valley State College and was awarded in 1976 with the International Film Society's Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement. He died at the age of 54 in 1964 due to a heart attack.
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31 May 1956
1956 Oscar nominated cartoon. The idea here is simple: the main character has taken up jaywalkng as a hobby and it quickly becomes manic, almost obsessive, behavior.
23 December 1951
This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
01 July 1944
A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey.
08 September 1954
Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to speak in words instead of sound effects.
21 November 1941
Working backstage at a theater, Porky frees a little ant he finds in a cage, only to learn that it's a rare and valuable trained pygmy ant.
04 October 1960
On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid.
06 March 1943
Daffy challenges duckhunter Elmer to a boxing match, rigged in his favor with the collusion of the duck referee.
11 April 1941
Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.
07 September 1955
Christopher Crumpet has an imaginary elephant for a playmate. Christopher's father begins to see the elephant.
13 May 1953
Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door.
25 June 1953
Through drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken.
29 November 1951
Uncle George is showing Little Johnny, his nephew, the pair of boxing gloves he claims enabled him, when he was the janitor at a training-gym, to beat up the bullying prizefighting champion.
03 October 1936
Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired.
01 January 1958
Inspired by the song Tenderly Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross, a tender animation on a florist and a sweeper that she falls madly in love.
05 July 1941
Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.
06 June 1986
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
15 July 1939
Porky Pig goes on a picnic.
06 March 1937
The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor.
15 March 1940
A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and the giant redwoods of California.
21 September 1956
Despite what's printed on the credits, Tex Avery had nothing to do with this cartoon - it's a Cinemascope remake of 'Wags to Riches' (1949), put together by others from his original artwork and production cels.
09 February 1956
While meeting a new friend, Gerald is abducted by aliens and whisked to the planet Moo. The king of Moo mistakenly thinks that all Earthlings - like Gerald - speak only in sound effects, and he attempts to converse with Gerald.
01 January 1945
Part of the "Flight Safety" series of animated shorts commissioned by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II.
04 July 1953
Gerald McBoing Boing, a little boy who can't talk but can imitate any sound, is working as a one-man sound effects department for a radio station.
17 April 1937
Inexperienced duck hunter Porky Pig is taunted by a mischievous duck (Daffy, making his screen debut).
25 May 1950
A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.
25 June 1952
Little Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and hat, and goes out to play with his friend Archie.
12 January 1945
Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.
02 November 1950
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
16 April 1943
Sniffles the mouse's non-stop talking foils both the burglar and a tipsy Officer Bear, who's trying to sneak past his rolling pin-toting, sleepwalking wife.
03 July 1943
On a tropical island, a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
01 January 1949
Part of the FLIGHT SAFETY series, instructing U.S. Navy pilots in the history of parachutes and the correct use of parachutes.
27 November 1952
This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.
10 April 1958
Magoo mistakes three bear cubs for three scouts.
06 June 1942
A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.
07 March 1936
While the rural town of Hicksville anticipates the arrival of one Miss Glory, the bellhop at her modest hotel falls asleep and dreams of paging her at a luxurious metropolitan high rise hotel.
01 January 1951
The jazzy cartoon short about that "cool little bunny" giving baskets full of Easter joy. Stylish 1950s UPA production design in this Easter musical short features some very loose and exhilarating animation, largely by Grim Natwick - plus a great vocal track of the seasonal pop standard.
28 November 1957
Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose
19 September 1942
Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.
11 February 1954
Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away.
17 June 1954
UPA cartoon about a nuclear family trying to live within a family budget.
29 January 1959
Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.
24 January 1952
A family of musical instruments, the Oompahs. Conflict strikes when the son wants to hang out with his rebellious friends, going against his traditionally-based family structure.
27 September 1951
Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion.
26 March 1953
Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows.
01 January 1954
A carnival setting illustrates the superiority of the radio medium for American business, with an eye on a future of economic prosperity.
