Emery Hawkins

Nacimiento : 1912-04-30,

Muerte : 1998-06-01

Historia

American animator who worked at various studios such as Disney, Screen Gems, Walter Lantz, Warner Bros., and UPA during the golden age of animation. His most prominent work is the Woody Woodpecker cartoons from the 1940s. Along with Art Heinemann, Hawkins helped redesign Woody and made him more streamlined. He also worked with Art Babbitt and Ken Harris on Richard Williams's unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler. Hawkins was known for the speed in which he animated, completing scenes quickly, but with perfection. Hawkins (along with Babbitt, Harris and Grim Natwick) is frequently mentioned in Richard Williams' book The Animator's Survival Kit. -Wikipedia Entry

Películas

El ladrón de Bagdad
Animation
Esta historia, extraída de "Las mil y una noches", muestra la amistad entre un joven ladrón, que conoce mil trucos para sobrevivir, y un zapatero pobre que tiene que trabajar duramente para salir adelante. En 1968, Richard Williams, ganador de tres Oscars, empezó a trabajar en esta película de animación cuyo título era "El ladrón de Bagdad" (The Thief and the Cobbler). Como estaba dirigida a un público adulto y no tenía diálogos, la producción tropezó con muchos escollos. Después de casi 20 años de trabajo, Williams sólo tenía veinte minutos de película. En 1990, la Warner Bros decidió financiar el proyecto.
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Animation
Raggedy Ann and Andy leave their playroom to rescue Babette, a beautiful French doll kidnapped by a pirate.
A Smattering of Spots
Art Direction
A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.
The Tender Game
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.
Working Dollars
Animation
FIlm on how the average person can invest in the stock market.
It's Everybody's Business
Animation
Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of life.
What Makes Us Tick
Animation
An optimistic overview and explanation of the stock market with animated examples.
Gallo Claudio: Buscando marido
Animation
Las otras gallinas se burlan de la Srta. Prissy, que todavía no ha encontrado un marido. Prissy sale con su rodillo de cocina en mano dispuesta a encontrar uno.
Early to Bet
Animation
The Gambling Bug causes gambling fever in anyone he bites. He bites a cat, who becomes eager to play gin-rummy with a bulldog for penalties. Even though he keeps losing and has to endure more and more painful penalties, the cat is compelled by the Gambling Bug's bite to continue playing.
A Bone for a Bone
Animation
Two polite gophers are in their underground home, playing gin, when a dog buries his bone right on top of them. They try to negotiate with the dog so that he will bury the bone elsewhere. But the dog refuses to be cooperative.
El conejo de Sevilla
Animation
Rabbit of Seville (traducido como Conejo de Sevilla) es un cortometraje animado de Looney Tunes dirigido por Chuck Jones y estrenado el 16 de diciembre de 1950 por Warnner Bros. Pictures. La animación estuvo a cargo de Phil Monroe, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris y Emery Hawkins. En 1994 apareció en el puesto número 12 de la lista 50 Greatest Cartoons, la cual se basó en los votos de aproximadamente 1.000 personalidades de la industria de la animación.
Paseo de canario
Animation
El gato Silvestre descubre a Piolín en un apartamento de San Francisco y trata de acceder a él, pero no consigue superar a la Abuelita ni al recepcionista que odia a los gatos.
Dog Gone South
Animation
Charlie Dog attempts to ingratiate himself to a southern plantation owner.
Hillbilly Hare
Animation
While vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.
Bugs el dadivoso
Animation
Bugs ayuda a un pingüino a regresar a su hogar a través de Nueva Orleans, Martinica, el Canal de Panamá y finalmente el Polo Sur. Pero la casa del pingüino está en Nueva Jersey.
All a Bir-r-r-rd
Animation
Tweety Bird is on a train with Sylvester.
A Ham in a Role
Animation
A dog decides to quit the slapstick comedy of cartoons and go to his country home to concentrate on Shakespeare, but two troublesome yet polite gophers foil his grand plans.
Dough Ray Me-ow
Animation
Louie the Parrot finds a written will stating that his master bequeathes the family fortune not to him, but to his fellow household pet, a lunkheaded cat named Heathcliff, with the proviso that Louie is next in line to inherit the wealth if Heathcliff dies. So, Louie plots the untimely demise of Heathcliff.
Bone Sweet Bone
Animation
An archaeologist at a museum scolds his small, silent dog, Shep, for supposedly removing a bone belonging to a dinosaur skeleton and orders Shep to bring the bone back, but Shep finds that the place where he buried his most recent bone has been dug up and a bulldog is walking away with the bone in his mouth. Shep chases the bulldog with intent of retrieving the bone, and so begins a battle of wits between Shep and the bulldog.
La voz de ensueño de Donald
Animation
Donald is trying to sell brushes door-to-door, but since nobody can understand him, nobody will buy anything. He happens across a street vendor selling voice pills. They work great, but he's only got a limited number so of course, the last pill ends up in various inconvenient places.
Espacios abiertos
Animation
‎Donald está viajando por el campo y decide descansar por la noche. Se niega a quedarse en el motel debido a su precio, por lo que establece un campamento en un área boscosa. Primero tiene problemas para inflar el colchón de aire, luego por una roca problemática, y finalmente después de que el colchón de aire explote, se desinfla enviando a Donald por el el aire.
El dilema de Donald
Animation
‎Donald y Daisy están caminando cuando Donald es golpeado por una maceta. Por este golpe, se cree convencido de que es un cantante famoso, y canta divinamente, pero no reconoce a Daisy.
Fair Weather Fiends
Animation
After a storm strands them on a deserted island, Woody Woodpecker and his wolf friend end up battling themselves in a quest to find food.
The Loose Nut
Animation
Woody Woodpecker goes to the park for a game of golf, and quickly gets at odds with some city-workers who are laying a cement walk. His hooks and slices keep landing into the wet cement. But he smooths everything out by putting a couple of cement-trowels on his feet, and gliding over the surface as if it was ice.
Woody Dines Out
Animation
Woody Woodpecker goes out to dine and accidentally stumbles into a taxidermist's shop, thinking it is a restaurant. The taxidermist, wanting a woodpecker to stuff, doesn't inform Woody otherwise, and drugs the 'meal' he serves Woody. But, before he can stuff Woody, he comes to and knocks the literal stuffing out of the taxidermist.
Ski For Two
Animation
Planning a vacation, Woody reads in the newspaper about Swiss Chard Lodge which promises lots of good food (which, as Woody says, is his "favorite dish"). He heads over to said lodge but, upon arriving, is told by owner Wally Walrus that he must make reservations ahead of time... which he has not. Wally throws the pest out but Woody is able to re-enter the premises disguised as none other than Santa Claus. He robs Wally of his food but, once alone with his sack, discovers quite a surprise inside.
The Beach Nut
Animation
A crowd gathers at the beach to witness vacationer Wally Walrus thrashing Woody Woodpecker. Wally explains, in flashback, why he is trying to rid himself of Woody... it seems he went to the beach for his day off and, unfortunately, the obnoxious woodpecker had the same idea disrupting Wally's peace and quiet with his antics, even disguising himself as a swami to fool Wally into "finding" him. Back to the present, Wally concludes his story and hurls Woody into the ocean but not without bringing the entire dock down with him, sending Wally and the crowd into the drink themselves!
Fish Fry
Animation
An alley cat attempts to steal the goldfish Andy Panda just bought from a pet shop, but the fish proves too clever for him.
The Barber of Seville
Animation
Woody is standing outside the Seville Barber Shop looking at the ads. Wanting a "victory haircut", he decides to enter the shop only to find the owner has stepped out for a physical. Woody decides to cut his own hair ("I cut my own teeth") but unfortunately is mistaken for the owner when two other customers enter, one an Indian who wants a quick shampoo and the other, a construction worker who wants "the whole works" and, unfortunately, gets it.
Ration Bored
Director
"Is this trip really necessary?" asks a road sign. "Sure, it's necessary," replies Woody Woodpecker. "I'm a necessary evil." Patriotic gestures are evidently not Woody's strong suit. When he goes to the gas station for a refill, he doesn't even know what a ration book is. The attendant thinks Woody is a wise guy and takes a large mallet and knocks him and his car into a junkyard several miles away. What luck! The old cars still have a bit of gas in them. Woody takes a rubber hose and siphons the gasoline from some of them. Unluckily, one of the cars he picks is brand new. And it's a cop car. Woody is soon at odds with a bulldog police officer.
The Dizzy Acrobat
Animation
Woody Woodpecker visits the circus. Singing "I Went to the Animal Fair," he strolls through a tiger's cage. As Woody looks at a rhinoceros, the nearby lion eats Woody's hot dog. Woody gets revenge by putting the lion's tail in the bun; the lion eats his own tail. Woody next tries to sneak into the main tent, and the run-ins with the guard take up the rest of the cartoon. First, the guard tells Woody he can work for his admission by watering an elephant, but he's not pleased when Woody ties the elephant's trunk to a hydrant. The chase is on, leading into the lion tamer's cage, onto the trapeze, and bicycling across the tightrope. Both Woody and the guard end up as targets in the shooting gallery.
The Egg Cracker Suite
Director
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, in his last animated short, conducts a symphony with a whole gaggle of hens (and one ostrich) to lay eggs for Easter.
Goofy: Cómo nadar
Animation
En esta ocasión Goofy nos enseña cómo nadar, aunque sus peripecias son del todo infructuosas.
Salvamento gatuno
Animation
Pluto rescata un pobre e indefenso gatito. El gato sigue a Pluto a su hogar, donde comienza a recibir la atención de Mickey, lo que provoca que Pluto se sienta celoso...
Un caddy canino
Animation
Mickey's going golfing, and Pluto is his caddy. Besides the usual caddy duties, Pluto runs to the ball and points to it. But when the ball lands in a gopher hole, Pluto's got another task: chase the gopher. They eventually chase each other through a number of holes in a knoll where Mickey is trying to putt out, causing the knoll to collapse.
A Gentleman's Gentleman
Animation
Mickey Mouse lies in bed like a lord, getting served breakfast by man's (and mouse's?) best friend Pluto as gentleman's gentleman. Next duty is to fetch the paper, but also pay for it with a coin for the vending machine, and those round things have a nasty habit of escaping a dog's teeth and bouncing over the pavement till they end up in the gutter. After enough attempts to fish and spend the penny, Pluto has a newspaper to carry the same way. The wind has a nasty way to get a better grip on page after page then the dog, so by the time he delivers the daily dose of printed news it's an embarrassingly muddy mess.
Árbol va
Animation
Pese a sus intentos por robarle algo de comida al malvado Pete y salir huyendo, Donald no tendrá más remedio que trabajar como leñador hasta que Pete pierde la paciencia.
Problemas de motor
Animation
Pluto está remolcando a Donald en su pequeña barca, y se distrae con una rana, lo que hace que el bote se aleje.
Pato Donald: El amor es cosa de dos
Animation
La frustración de Donald es llevada al límite cuando intenta cortejar a Daisy sin que sus sobrinos lo interrumpan.
La lavandería de perros de Donald
Animation
El pato Donald inventa una máquina automática para lavar perros, mientras el pobre Pluto duerme una siesta ajeno a lo que se le avecina...
Jitterbug Follies
Animation
Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog are promoting a $10,000 swing contest. They plan to skip town with the entry fees, but a menacing thug from the "Citizens for Fair Play" convinces them otherwise. The contestants: A singing hippo, "Mother Goose" who starts out as an old woman, then sheds her disguise to reveal a pretty girl, and a fan-dancing ostrich. Throughout, a couple of penguins are heckling. The ostrich proves wildly popular, and Screwloose fears he'll have to give the prize to her, when he gets an idea. He dresses J.R. up as the ostrich and sends him out, but the penguins use a box of sausages to expose the dog. The crowd runs Screwloose and J.R. out, and they grab a ride on a train where the penguins are waiting for them.
Petunia Natural Park
Animation
As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the title, a composite of several national parks in the western USA. There are several spot gags, including Mama taking a picture of a bear and ending up being photographed by several bears. Mama has a run-in with the law for picking a flower; The Captain has his own for feeding a bear, which turns out to be a ranger/cop in disguise.
The Little Match Girl
Animation
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.