Shamus Culhane

Režisér, Producent, Scénárista

12. listopadu 1908 — 2. února 1996 (87 let)
Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and theWalter Lantz studio. He began his animation career in 1925 working for J.R. Bray studios, and is known for promoting the animation talents of his inker/assistant at the Fleischer Studios in the early 1930s, Lillian Friedman Astor, making her the first female studio animator. While at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, without invoking the left side of the brain. He was a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, animating arguably the most well-known sequence in the film, the animation of the dwarves marching home singing "Heigh-Ho". The scene took Culhane and his assistants six months to complete. During this time he developed his 'High-speed' technique of using only the right side of the brain and animating with quick dashed-off sketches. In 1944, he collaborated on The Greatest Man in Siam with the layout artist Art Heinemann. In that animation, "the king of Siam bolts past doorways that are distinctly phallic in shape and peers at another that mimics a vagina."[3] Later in his career, Culhane worked briefly in Chuck Jones's unit at Warner Bros, before moving on to being a director for Lantz, where he helmed Woody Woodpecker's 1944 classic, The Barber of Seville, the cartoon famous for one of the first uses of fast cutting, after taking the idea from Sergei Eisenstein. At Lantz, he introduced Russian avant-garde influenced experimental art into the cartoons. In the late-1940s, he founded Shamus Culhane Productions (Culhane had gone by his birthname of James up until this point, before going by its Irish variant Shamus), one of the first companies to create animated television commercials. It also produced the animation for at least one of the Bell Telephone Science Series films. Shamus Culhane Productions folded in the 1960s, at which point Culhane became the head of the successor to Fleischer Studios, Paramount Cartoon Studios. He left the studio in 1967, and went into semi-retirement. Culhane wrote two highly regarded books on animation: the how-to/textbook Animation from Script to Screen, and his autobiography Talking Animals and Other People. Since Culhane worked for a number of major Hollywood animation studios, his autobiography gives a balanced general overview of the history of the Golden Age of American Animation. At his death on February 2, 1996, Culhane was survived by second wife, the former Juana Hegarty, and by two sons from his first marriage to Maxine Marx (the daughter of Chico Marx) which ended in divorce: Brian Culhane of Seattle and Kevin Marx Culhane of Portland, Ore. -From Wikiepedia

Filmy a seriály na Plexu

  • Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní
    Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní1956
  • Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels1939

Známý pro

  • Datel Woody
    Datel Woody32 řad
  • Rocket Robin Hood
    Rocket Robin Hood3 řady
  • Jack Frost
    Jack Frost1934
  • Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
    Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure1977
  • Fish Fry
    Fish Fry1944
  • Chess-Nuts
    Chess-Nuts1932
  • Little Black Sambo
    Little Black Sambo1935
  • Crazy-Town
    Crazy-Town1932
  • In My Merry Oldsmobile
    In My Merry Oldsmobile1931
  • The Herring Murder Case
    The Herring Murder Case1931
  • O námořníku Sindibádovi
    O námořníku Sindibádovi1935

Filmografie

1978
The South Bank Show · as Self - Animator

1977
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure · as Production Consultant
1957
Hemo the Magnificent · as Animation
1956
Around the World in 80 Days · as AnimationNa Plexu
1943
Puss n' Booty · as Animation
1939
Gulliver's Travels · as AnimationNa Plexu
1939
The Autograph Hound · as Animation
1939
The Pointer · as Animation
1939
Beach Picnic · as Animation
1939
Donald's Cousin Gus · as Animation
1939
The Hockey Champ · as Animation
1939
Society Dog Show · as Animation
1938
Polar Trappers · as Animation
1937
1937
Pluto's Quin-puplets · as Animation
1937
Hawaiian Holiday · as Animation
1936
Donald and Pluto · as Animation
1936
Mickey's Circus · as Animation
1936
Orphans' Picnic · as Animation
1936
Ali Baba · as Co-Director
1935
Balloon Land · as Animation
1935
Sinbad the Sailor · as Co-Director
1935
Little Black Sambo · as Co-Director
1934
Jack Frost · as Co-Director
1932
Shine on Harvest Moon · as Animation Director
1932
Chess-Nuts · as Animation Director
1932
Just One More Chance · as Animation Director
1932
Crazy-Town · as Animation Director
1931
The Herring Murder Case · as Co-Director
1931
Alexander's Ragtime Band · as Co-Director
1931
In My Merry Oldsmobile · as Animation Director
1931
The Cow's Husband · as Animation Director
1931