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Shamus Culhane

Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and theWalter Lantz studio. He began his animation career in 1925 working for J.R. Bray studios, and is known for promoting the animation talents of his inker/assistant at the Fleischer Studios in the early 1930s, Lillian Friedman Astor, making her the first female studio animator. While at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, without invoking the left side of the brain. He was a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, animating arguably the most well-known sequence in the film, the animation of the dwarves marching home singing "Heigh-Ho". The scene took Culhane and his assistants six months to complete. During this time he developed his 'High-speed' technique of using only the right side of the brain and animating with quick dashed-off sketches. In 1944, he collaborated on The Greatest Man in Siam with the layout artist Art Heinemann. In that animation, "the king of Siam bolts past doorways that are distinctly phallic in shape and peers at another that mimics a vagina."[3] Later in his career, Culhane worked briefly in Chuck Jones's unit at Warner Bros, before moving on to being a director for Lantz, where he helmed Woody Woodpecker's 1944 classic, The Barber of Seville, the cartoon famous for one of the first uses of fast cutting, after taking the idea from Sergei Eisenstein. At Lantz, he introduced Russian avant-garde influenced experimental art into the cartoons. In the late-1940s, he founded Shamus Culhane Productions (Culhane had gone by his birthname of James up until this point, before going by its Irish variant Shamus), one of the first companies to create animated television commercials. It also produced the animation for at least one of the Bell Telephone Science Series films. Shamus Culhane Productions folded in the 1960s, at which point Culhane became the head of the successor to Fleischer Studios, Paramount Cartoon Studios. He left the studio in 1967, and went into semi-retirement. Culhane wrote two highly regarded books on animation: the how-to/textbook Animation from Script to Screen, and his autobiography Talking Animals and Other People. Since Culhane worked for a number of major Hollywood animation studios, his autobiography gives a balanced general overview of the history of the Golden Age of American Animation. At his death on February 2, 1996, Culhane was survived by second wife, the former Juana Hegarty, and by two sons from his first marriage to Maxine Marx (the daughter of Chico Marx) which ended in divorce: Brian Culhane of Seattle and Kevin Marx Culhane of Portland, Ore. -From Wikiepedia

Crew
  • The Barber of Seville

    The Barber of Seville

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.4
    51 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 21, 1944
    83 years ago
  • Jack Frost

    Jack Frost

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    6.2
    17 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 22, 1934
    92 years ago
  • Chew-Chew Baby

    Chew-Chew Baby

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.5
    12 votes
    Release Date
    Feb 04, 1945
    82 years ago
  • Little Black Sambo

    Little Black Sambo

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    4.7
    11 votes
    Release Date
    Feb 05, 1935
    92 years ago
  • Woody Dines Out

    Woody Dines Out

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.1
    10 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 31, 1945
    82 years ago
  • Ski for Two

    Ski for Two

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.2
    8 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 12, 1944
    82 years ago
  • Fish Fry

    Fish Fry

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.9
    8 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 19, 1944
    83 years ago
  • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

    Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    6.2
    8 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 10, 1934
    93 years ago
  • Fair Weather Fiends

    Fair Weather Fiends

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    7.3
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 18, 1946
    80 years ago
  • The Reckless Driver

    The Reckless Driver

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    7.3
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 26, 1946
    80 years ago
  • The Dippy Diplomat

    The Dippy Diplomat

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.1
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 26, 1945
    81 years ago
  • The Beach Nut

    The Beach Nut

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.8
    7 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 15, 1944
    82 years ago
  • Who's Cookin Who?

    Who's Cookin Who?

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    7.3
    6 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 23, 1946
    80 years ago
  • The Loose Nut

    The Loose Nut

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.5
    6 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 17, 1945
    81 years ago
  • Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

    Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.5
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Sep 27, 1943
    83 years ago
  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    6.2
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 29, 1933
    93 years ago
  • The Headless Horseman

    The Headless Horseman

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    6.3
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 01, 1934
    92 years ago
  • The Pied Piper of Basin Street

    The Pied Piper of Basin Street

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.2
    4 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 15, 1945
    82 years ago
  • Mousie Come Home

    Mousie Come Home

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.7
    3 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 15, 1946
    81 years ago
  • Take Heed Mr. Tojo

    Take Heed Mr. Tojo

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    5.0
    3 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 01, 1943
    83 years ago
  • The Merry Kittens

    The Merry Kittens

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.3
    3 votes
    Release Date
    May 14, 1935
    92 years ago
  • Old Mother Hubbard

    Old Mother Hubbard

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    5.0
    3 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 02, 1935
    92 years ago
  • The Painter and the Pointer

    The Painter and the Pointer

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    2 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 17, 1944
    82 years ago
  • Showdown at Ulcer Gulch

    Showdown at Ulcer Gulch

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    5.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 01, 1956
    71 years ago
  • The Opera Caper

    The Opera Caper

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    3.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Nov 01, 1967
    59 years ago
  • A Balmy Knight

    A Balmy Knight

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    1.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 10, 1966
    60 years ago
  • Jungle Jive

    Jungle Jive

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    7.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    May 15, 1944
    83 years ago
  • The Night the Animals Talked

    The Night the Animals Talked

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 09, 1970
    56 years ago
  • The Trip

    The Trip

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 25, 1967
    59 years ago
  • The Herring Murder Case

    The Herring Murder Case

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    6.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 26, 1931
    96 years ago
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band

    Alexander's Ragtime Band

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    1.0
    1 votes
    Release Date
    May 08, 1931
    96 years ago

  • The Space Squid

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 01, 1967
    60 years ago

  • Robin Hoodwinked

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    May 31, 1967
    59 years ago

  • The Squaw Path

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 30, 1967
    59 years ago

  • The Plumber

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 30, 1967
    59 years ago

  • My Daddy the Astronaut

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 01, 1967
    59 years ago

  • Think or Sink

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 09, 1967
    59 years ago
  • The Blacksheep Blacksmith

    The Blacksheep Blacksmith

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 09, 1967
    60 years ago

  • Geronimo and Son

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 09, 1966
    60 years ago
  • Potions and Notions

    Potions and Notions

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 19, 1966
    60 years ago

  • A Wedding Knight

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Aug 08, 1966
    60 years ago

  • Throne for a Loss

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jul 08, 1966
    60 years ago
  • The Defiant Giant

    The Defiant Giant

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 08, 1966
    60 years ago

  • I Want My Mummy

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Mar 08, 1966
    60 years ago

  • Meatless Tuesday

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Dec 19, 1943
    83 years ago

  • The Big Fun Carnival

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 20, 1957
    70 years ago
  • Noah's Animals

    Noah's Animals

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 01, 1976
    51 years ago
  • King of the Beasts

    King of the Beasts

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jan 01, 1977
    50 years ago
  • Last of the Red-Hot Dragons

    Last of the Red-Hot Dragons

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Apr 01, 1980
    46 years ago
  • The King's Tailor

    The King's Tailor

    Department Directing

    Job Co-Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Oct 28, 1934
    92 years ago

  • Halt, Who Grows There?

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    May 01, 1967
    59 years ago

  • From Orbit to Obit

    Department Directing

    Job Director

    Average Rating
    0.0
    0 votes
    Release Date
    Jun 01, 1967
    59 years ago
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