Robert Cannon
Nacimiento : 1909-07-16, Ohio, USA
Muerte : 1964-06-09
Historia
Robert Cannon (July 16, 1909 - June 9, 1964) was an American animator.
Robert 'Bobo' Cannon was born in Ohio. Not much is known about his early life, including the city he was born in. He began his animation career at Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1934, assisting ace animators Robert Clampett and Chuck Jones. After a two-year apprenticeship, he graduated to full animator.
Cannon became an integral part of that anarchic Warner Brothers in-house cartoon outfit, known as 'Termite Terrace' (due to its cramped and austere quarters). In the process, he labored on such iconic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd. He animated for Tex Avery, Clampett and Jones from 1936 to 1944, after which he became co-founder and a leading light in the innovative United Productions of America (UPA). Unlike at Warners, UPA allowed him to direct, including cartoons featuring the famous character of Mr. Magoo.
Cannon later taught animation at San Fernando Valley State College and was awarded in 1976 with the International Film Society's Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement. He died at the age of 54 in 1964 due to a heart attack.
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Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
Animation
On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one had, a quarter of the blue planet's children. On the other hand, the remaining three quarters.
Animation
Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird.
Animation
Inspired by the song Tenderly Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross, a tender animation on a florist and a sweeper that she falls madly in love.
Producer
Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose
Director
Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose
Director
1956 Oscar nominated cartoon. The idea here is simple: the main character has taken up jaywalkng as a hobby and it quickly becomes manic, almost obsessive, behavior.
Story
Gerald es abducido por unos alienígenas y transportado al planeta Moo. Ahí es llevado frente al Rey de los Moo, que erróneamente piensa que todos los humanos son como él, comunicándose sólo a través de efectos de sonido.
Director
Gerald es abducido por unos alienígenas y transportado al planeta Moo. Ahí es llevado frente al Rey de los Moo, que erróneamente piensa que todos los humanos son como él, comunicándose sólo a través de efectos de sonido.
Director
Christopher Crumpet has an imaginary elephant for a playmate. Christopher's father begins to see the elephant. Mr. Crumpet reveals this to his co-worker, Mr. Bilgewater, who quickly plays office politics by telling their boss that Mr. Crumpet is crazy. The boss has recently awarded Crumpet a junior partnership, which Bilgewater thought he had deserved. The boss visits the Crumpet home, and finds that Crumper does indeed see his son's imaginary playmate. But instead of taking the junior partnership away from Crumpet, he makes him a full partner. The boss himself has an imaginary hyena.
Story
Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to speak in words instead of sound effects. They all fail until, by chance, Gerald tries to phone home.
Director
Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to speak in words instead of sound effects. They all fail until, by chance, Gerald tries to phone home.
Director
UPA cartoon about a nuclear family trying to live within a family budget.
Story
Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages to get them ready and they are a huge success. The school owner is so pleased that he enters all of the school's 1400 students in a contest where they have to learn "Swan Lake" in just two weeks.
Director
Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages to get them ready and they are a huge success. The school owner is so pleased that he enters all of the school's 1400 students in a contest where they have to learn "Swan Lake" in just two weeks.
Director
A carnival setting illustrates the superiority of the radio medium for American business, with an eye on a future of economic prosperity.
Director
Gerald McBoing Boing, a little boy who can't talk but can imitate any sound, is working as a one-man sound effects department for a radio station. When a scheduled symphony orchestra does not show up, Gerald replaces them. He is doing fine until he mixes up the score with the sound effects script, and creates an original symphony. He is fired, but the critics hail his work as that of a genius.
Director
Through drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken. He threatens to do so if his father, Marvin, won't buy him a rocket ship.
Animation Director
Tras un año de éxito triunfal en Londres, Jeannie Laird, una ex corista convertida en estrella, regresa a Estados Unidos para descansar en la nueva casa que se ha comprado. Allí tiene como vecino a Bill Carter, un dibujante de tiras cómicas viudo que vive sólo con Joe, su hijo de 10 años. Jeannie y Bill enseguida congenian y se enamoran, pero el pequeño Joe se siente celoso y se interpone entre ambos.
Script
Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.
Director
Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea in order not to disturb anyone. His tuba-playing saves a ship from going on the rocks and he becomes a town hero.
Director
This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.
Director
Little Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and hat, and goes out to play with his friend Archie.(No, this is not Archie Andrews.) The two boys have some desperate adventures, until Willie's mom calls him in to take his afternoon nap.
Director
A family of musical instruments, the Oompahs. Conflict strikes when the son wants to hang out with his rebellious friends, going against his traditionally-based family structure. A heavy allegory for the jazz backlash.
Director
This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Director
Uncle George is showing Little Johnny, his nephew, the pair of boxing gloves he claims enabled him, when he was the janitor at a training-gym, to beat up the bullying prizefighting champion. Little Johnny scoffs at the tale until the 'wonder gloves' gives him a spanking.
Director
Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion.
Director
The jazzy cartoon short about that "cool little bunny" giving baskets full of Easter joy. Stylish 1950s UPA production design in this Easter musical short features some very loose and exhilarating animation by Robert Cannon- plus a great vocal track of the seasonal pop standard.
Director
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
Director
A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.
Director
Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.
Animation
A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is depicted as a streamlined diesel express train in a race against Dewey, a worn-out steam train. The public is admonished to "get behind the president and stay the course to victory."
Animation
On a tropical island a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
Animation
Sniffles el ratón hablando sin parar frustra tanto al ladrón como a un oficial oso borracho, que está tratando de escabullirse de su esposa sonámbula.
Animation
Daffy challenges duckhunter Elmer to a boxing match, rigged in his favor with the collusion of the duck referee. In the stands, Elmer's dog Larrimore suspects that something funny is going on, but he's drowned out by Daffy's all-duck cheering section.
Animation
Trabajo que marcó el rumbo de la carrera de Chuck Jones. El cortometraje es una parodia de The Rover Boys, una serie de libros para niños famosos durante inicios del siglo XX. El cortometraje está protagonizado por tres hermanos, Tom, Dick y Larry, quienes son muy populares en su Universidad. Mientras los personajes se divierten junto a su “prometida” Dora Standpipe, esta es raptada por Dan Backslide, enemigo de los hermanos. Backslide lleva a Dora a una casa abandonada, mientras ella grita en busca de ayuda. Los protagonistas van a su rescate..
Animation
A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.
Animation
Sniffles el ratón y su amigo el bibliotecario tratan de evadir a un gato en el departamento de juguetes de la tienda departamental Lacy's.
Animation
An inexperienced duck hunter is taunted and tormented by a mischievous duck.
Animation
Un botones en el mejor hotel de un pequeño pueblo espera la llegada de la Señorita Gloria, y mientras espera dormido sueña con atenderla en el mejor hotel de Nueva York, y ésto termina por convertirse en una pesadilla. Finalmente lo despierta el gerente del hotel cuando está llegando la limosina, pero en lugar de ser una hermosa dama, una niña estilo Shirley Temple sale del auto...
Director of Photography
When Greg meets Niamh, everything seems to be fantastic. She's exciting, fun, charming- everything Greg wishes he could be. But he hits a bump in the road when he realises that Niamh doesn't exist.
