John Canemaker Movies

A documentary about the early days of animation.

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

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...

After learning about pollution a group of creatures called Zwibble Dibbles, decide to throw a party for the Earth to raise awareness.

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

Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat

Blending the animation of Chuck Jones’ original drawings, traditional documentary elements, and one of Jones’ most intimate interviews...

Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.

Documentary short from Felix the Cat Collector’s Edition DVD

The short takes as its inspiration Bottom's contemplation on the "dream" he has experienced in the middle acts of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer...

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...

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.

This educational science program features the story of Dr. Alfred Clothear and his discovery of how bears know when to sleep for the winter.

The film follows Wing Biddlebaum, a lonely former schoolteacher whose “hands” led to a scandal that drove him from his previous town and...

The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic...