Remembering Winsor McCay (1976) and Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977). Canemaker's filmography includes independently made animated shorts that are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Among them are The '40s (1974), Street Freaks (1975), Confessions of a Stardreamer (1978), The Wizard's Son (1981), Bottom's Dream (1983), Confessions of a Stand-Up (1993), and Bridgehampton (1998). In the early 1980s, Canemaker animated several Children's Television Workshop films for Sesame Street, TV commercials, and, in 1981, created the animation sequences for the Warner Bros. feature The World According to Garp. He designed and directed animation sequences in the Academy Award-winning HBO documentary You Don't Have to Die (1988) and the Peabody Award-winning CBS documentary Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse (1994). John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon, a DVD/home video collection of his films, is distributed by Milestone Film & Video/Image Entertainment. In addition, Canemaker writes regularly on animation for The New York Times and is on-camera and audio commentator on DVD versions of The Fantasia Anthology, Dumbo, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cut-up: The Films of Grant Munro, and Winsor McCay: The Master Edition. He has appeared on NBC's Today, PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Entertainment Tonight, and has lectured throughout the United States and in Brazil, Canada, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and Wales. In 2006, he received an Award for outstanding contribution to animation studies at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb. Books Felix, The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat, 1991, Pantheon, New York, . Storytelling in Animation: The Art of the Animated Image, Volume 2, editor, 1988, The American Film Institute. Paperdreams; The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboarding. Winsor McCay: His Life and Art, 1987. Treasures of Disney Animation Art (with Robert E. Abrams), 1982. The Animated Raggedy Ann and Andy, 1977. Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation, 2001. Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft. 2010. . External links John Canemaker's Animated Eye John Canemaker Animation Collection at NYU Fales Library "My Oscar Experience: An Interview with John Canemaker": Part 1, Part 2 1943 births Living people American animators American animated film directors Tisch School of the Arts faculty Historians of animation Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award