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Walt Disney's Nine Old Men
Walt Disney's Nine Old Men
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Author: John Canemaker Publisher: Disney Editions Format: Hardcover # of Pages: 308 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 0786864966 ISBN-13: 9780786864966
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About the Book:
RARE BOOK, only a very limited
number of copies are still available.
Profiles of the nine original Disney animators explore their
relationship with Walt Disney, their artistic accomplishments
and failures, their personalities, and their contributions to
character animation and moviemaking.
When Walt Disney dubbed his core group of animators "The
Nine Old Men", he wasn't referring to their
advanced years — their median age was actually forty. He was
instead making a joking reference to Franklin Roosevelt's description
of his Supreme Court as "nine old men, all too aged to recognize
a new idea." Nothing could have been further from the truth, in
this case, as the nine unique personalities portrayed in John
Canemaker's comprehensive history explored, expanded, and
influenced character animation and moviemaking over the course of
fifty years, consistently raising the bar by which the art form
continues to be judged.
Through the span of their careers,
these nine highly skilled men, with widely differing artistic gifts,
viewpoints, personalities, and degrees of ambition and
competitiveness, exhibited a loyalty to one another and their
employer unparalleled in most professions. Walt Disney's Nine Old
Men explores their individual relationships with Walt Disney
and with each other, their artistic breakthroughs and failures, the
rivalries, and studio politics. This candid narrative of their lives
and contributions to a very special form of cinema illustrates why
the work of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men will continue to be a
significant, essential source for study and inspiration to animation
and art lover for years to come.
What people say:
"Lavishly produced, this
oversized book is filled with rare and important reproductions of
animation cells and candid pictures of the men and their associates,
all printed on heavily coated paper to bring out the full luster and
detail. [This] book will be of considerable interest to anyone
concerned with the creative forces that shaped some of the most
recognizable characters and sequences from Walt Disney Productions'
most famous animated films. Highly recommended for any library."
— Library Journal
"John Canemaker
is, surely, the single-most prominent writer of animation books in
the world ... Several books already in his oeuvre would be capstones
to any career, but this one, Walt Disney's Nine Old
Men, might stand as his
greatest." — Animation-Books.com
"John
Canemaker's
Walt Disney's Nine Old Men
is an engaging and inspiring read from start to finish, and it is one
of the few animation books that deserves a spot on the bookshelf of
all animation artists, historians and cartoon aficionados."
— AnimationBlast.com
About the Author:
John Canemaker is an Academy
Award and Emmy Award-winning American animation filmmaker, and a
tenured professor and director of the film animation program at New
York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has written numerous
books on animation, including Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, and
contributed more than one hundred related essays, reviews, and
articles to periodicals. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton.
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