John Canemaker
John Canemaker, actually John Cannizzaro Jr. ( born May 28, 1943 in Waverly, New York) is an American animator and nonfiction author. He teaches as a professor of animation at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Life
Canemaker grew up in Elmira and dealt with early animated films. His first animated film he made at the age of 15 years. He attended Notre Dame High School, graduating in 1961. He then went to New York City and studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and gained experience as an actor in off- Broadway plays and in two films as a stunt double for Dick Van Dyke. In 1965 he was drafted into the Army and was until 1967 as a soldier in the Vietnam War. From 1967 Canemaker continued to work on his career as an actor and appeared in more than 30 commercials until 1970. He enrolled in 1971 at Marymount Manhattan College and graduated in 1974 with a BA in from communication science. At the New York University in 1976, he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in film.
An obtained while studying research order in the newly opened Walt Disney Studios and Archives in 1973 led to further research in the field of animated film history. Canemaker began to conduct interviews with the pioneers and sizes of animation history and preserve their history for posterity. Among other things he had been able to perform with Disney 's Nine Old Men at Disney interview. Canemaker wrote numerous articles with animation reference in magazines, and produced in the 1970s, two documentary films about animators: Remembering Winsor McCay - his MFA thesis project at NYU - appeared in 1976, Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat the following year. Since 1977, Canemaker is also emerged as a nonfiction author in the field of animated film history.
From 1973 Canemaker was himself active as an animator and founded in 1981 with John Canemaker Productions his own film studio. In addition to short animated films, which were 1984 and 1998 honored with retrospectives of the Museum of Modern Art and now are part of the permanent collection of the MoMa, Canemaker also created work for film and television, he was different animation sequences of Sesame Street (among Mad Goat Song) involved and animated a stunt sequence in the film Garp and how he saw the world. His biggest success was the autobiographical short film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation from 2005, for which he received an Oscar in 2006.
Canemaker began in 1980 as a lecturer at the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University animation to teach. He founded the local entertainment program that he directs since 1988; He is a professor of animation at the Kanbar Institute.