John Canemaker Movies

Documentary about the influence of legendary animator Tex Avery and the groundbreaking digital special effects of “The Mask.” Produced...

Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the...

During a long ride home from a punk show, a young boy fails to learn that sometimes when you talk, it annoys your friends.

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...

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture...

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...

A documentary about the early days of animation.

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...

In 1986, seventeen years after Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s animated conversation about love and six years after the beloved Beatle’s...

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

The extemporaneous musings of an actress about her career provide the springboard for an imaginative fantasy on the fragility of fame.

A lyrical and personal study of Canemaker's Long Island garden through the seasons, based on paintings, to an original jazz score by Fred Hersch.

The unlikely story of 106-year old Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, and how he overcame poverty and racism in America to become a celebrated...

It's Christmas Eve and all the children around the world are asleep and dreaming of the toys that Santa Claus will bring - except at the South Pole,...

The Primm family moves into an old brownstone house on East 88th Street, where they find a crocodile named Lyle in their bathtub.

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

A stop-motion film, written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank.

Bonus feature on the Dumbo DVD.

The making of Cinderella (1950).

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