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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
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1908-11-12
- event Death Date 1996-02-02
- school Known for: Directing
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- info Birth Place Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
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1939-02-03
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The Pointer
1939-07-21
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Beach Picnic
1939-06-09
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The Autograph Hound
1939-09-01
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Donald and Pluto
1936-09-12
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Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
1956-01-01
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Keep the Cool, Baby
1967-11-09
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Brother Bat
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Keep the Cool, Baby
1967-11-09
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A Bridge Grows in Brooklyn
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My Daddy the Astronaut
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The Stubborn Cowboy
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The Stubborn Cowboy
1967-10-01
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Hemo the Magnificent
1957-03-20
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The Unchained Goddess
1958-02-12
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I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
1930-01-29
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The Space Squid
1967-01-01
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Hawaiian Holiday
1937-09-24
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Pluto's Quin-puplets
1937-11-26
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Orphan's Picnic
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Donald's Cousin Gus
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The Plumber
1967-04-30
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Ski for Two
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The Barber of Seville
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Puss n' Booty
1943-12-10
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Fair Weather Fiends
1946-11-18
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1946-06-23
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I Want My Mummy
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Mousie Come Home
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Throne for a Loss
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The Reckless Driver
1946-08-26
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The Squaw Path
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Polar Trappers
1938-06-17
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Think or Sink
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Potions and Notions
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My Daddy the Astronaut
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Mickey's Circus
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The Loose Nut
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The Merry Kittens
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The Night the Animals Talked
1970-12-09
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938-01-14
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Coo Coo the Magician
1933-01-21
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Two for the Zoo
1941-02-21
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Balloon Land
1935-09-30
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
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The Big Fun Carnival
1957-01-20
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The Trip
1967-04-25
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Last of the Red-Hot Dragons
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Noah's Animals
1976-01-01
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Noah's Animals
1976-01-01
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King of the Beasts
1977-01-01
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King of the Beasts
1977-01-01
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Little Black Sambo
1935-02-05
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1933-11-29
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Jack Frost
1934-12-22
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1967-11-01
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Just Spooks
1925-09-13
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A Wedding Knight
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A Balmy Knight
1966-06-10
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The Squaw Path
1967-04-30
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High But Not Dry
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Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep
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Popeye Meets William Tell
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Last of the Red-Hot Dragons
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Old Mother Hubbard
1935-04-02
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The Headless Horseman
1934-10-01
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Fish Fry
1944-06-19
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Minding the Baby
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Minding the Baby
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The King's Tailor
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