Movies: John Canemaker

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. Written an...

An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father....

A documentary on the making of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp created for the 2006 Platinum DVD....

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....

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....

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...

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....

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 ...

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." An animated view of New York street life, with its spirited ...

Documentary short from Felix the Cat Collector’s Edition DVD...