Movies: John Canemaker

Short Documentary on the art of Mary Blair: An extraordinary talented artist....

Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons....

Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat...

The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films....

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....

This educational science program features the story of Dr. Alfred Clothear and his discovery of how bears know when to sleep for the winter....

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 ...

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....

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

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...