George Dunning
George Dunning ( born November 17, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario as George Garnett Dunning; † 15 February 1979 in London, England) was an award-winning Canadian film director, animator and film producer, the internationally primarily for his work as a director of the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine from 1968 was known.
Life and career
George Dunning, born in 1920 in Toronto, Canada, first studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design. He then worked as a freelance illustrator before he became a protégé of Norman McLaren at the National Film Board of Canada ( NFB) was established in 1943. In 1944, Dunning began mid-twenties own original animated short films to turn as a director, at the beginning by a few minutes in length, the scope over the years increased continuously. In 1948 he spent a year working for UNESCO in Paris under the supervision of animation artist Berthold Bartosch.
In 1949 he founded and employees Jim MacKay in Toronto then Graphic Associates, an early animation studio. One of the animators that worked for Graphic Associates, included Richard Williams and Michael Snow. Dunning later moved to New York and worked at the UPA at the Gerald McBoing - Boing Show. 1956 George Dunning finally moved to England, there to manage its newly established London office. He founded along with John Coates in London in 1957, the production company, TV Cartoons Ltd and went soon a name as a director for sophisticated animations. Among his animators working for TVC Richard Williams and Jimmy T. Murakami. After 1961 TVC made already about a hundred commercials per year. During this time Dunning also managed many personal short films, which were known for their surrealistic atmosphere and its Kafkaesque themes as emerged in 1962 under his direction as the award- winning short film The Flying Man.
George Dunning oversaw later as a producer from 1965 to 1967, the cartoon series The Beatles over 33 episodes for the transmitter Associated British Corporation ( ABC), which in turn led to the commitment to the Beatles cinema animation classic Yello Submarine in 1968, where he was honored for his directing in 1969 by the National Society of Film Critics Awards in the USA with a Special Award.
In addition, Dunning 1964 was also responsible for the opening credits of Blake Edwards Clouseau movie with Peter Sellers A Shot in the Dark along with a number of short films including The Digger, for the BBC series for children.
George Dunning turned in his career numerous animated commercials, industrial films, short cartoons and was next to the TV cartoon series The Beatles mid-1960s, more than once worked as a producer. A total of fourteen short films he directed himself led. On February 15, 1979 Dunning died in his adopted home of London at the age of 58 years.