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(Cross-posted at 21 Essays.)
To learn more about 100 Masters of Short Animation, read the introduction.
Dave Fleischer
1894 – 1979
Born New York City, New York, USA
Key production country: USA
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: Out of the Inkwell (1918), Snow-White (1933)
Highly recommended: Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (1928), Bimbo’s Initiation (1931), Minnie The Moocher (1932)
Friz Freleng
1905 – 1995
Born Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Rhapsody In Rivets (1941), Pigs in a Polka (1943), High Diving Hare (1949)
Clyde Geronimi
1901 – 1989
Born Italy
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Lend a Paw (1941), Education For Death (1943), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958)
Burt Gillett
1891 – 1971
Born Elmira, New York, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Flowers and Trees (1932), Three Little Pigs (1933), Lonesome Ghosts (1937)
Bob Godfrey
1921 –
Born West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Key production country: UK
Highly recommended: Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit (1961), Kama Sutra Rides Again (1972), Great (1975)
Paul Grimault
1905 – 1994
Born Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Key production country: France
Highly recommended: The Scarecrow (1943), The Little Soldier (1947), Le Chien Melomane (1973)
John Halas and Joy Batchelor
John Halas (1912 –
1995); Joy Batchelor (1914 – 1991)
John Halas born Budapest, Austria-Hungary; Joy Batchelor born Watford, Hertfordshire,
England, UK
Key production country: UK
Highly recommended: The Owl and the Pussycat (1952), The Christmas Visitor (1959), Automania 2000 (1964)
David Hand
1900 – 1986
Born Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935), Three Orphan Kittens (1935), Thru the Mirror (1936)
Jack Hannah
1913 – 1994
Born Arizona, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Lambert The Sheepish Lion (1952), The New Neighbor (1953), In The Bag (1956)
Hugh Harman
1903 – 1982
Born Pagosa Springs, Colorado, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Tale of the Vienna Woods (1934), The Old Mill Pond (1936), Peace on Earth (1939)
Pierre Hébert
1944–
Born Canada
Key production country: Canada
Highly recommended: Op Hop – Hop Op (1966), Around Perception (1968), Memories of War (1983)
Don Hertzfeldt
1976 –
Born Fremont, California, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Genre (1996), Rejected (2000), The Meaning of Life (2005)
Co Hoedeman
1940 –
Born Netherlands
Key production country: Canada
Highly recommended: Tchou-Tchou (1972), The Sand Castle (1977), Ludovic – The Snow Gift (1998)
John & Faith Hubley
John Hubley (1914 – 1977); Faith Hubley (1924 – 2001)
John Hubley born Marinette, Wisconsin, USA;
Faith Hubley born New York City, New York, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Rooty Toot Toot (1951), The Tender Game (1958), Moonbird (1959)
Rudolf Ising
1903 – 1992
Born Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: The Calico Dragon (1935), Dance of the Weed (1941), The Bear and the Beavers (1942)
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
1900 – 1987
Born Russia
Key production country: USSR
Highly recommended: Black and White (1932), The Battle of Kerzhenets (co-directed with Yuriy Norshteyn) (1971), Ave Maria (1972)
Ub Iwerks
1901 – 1971
Born Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Hell’s Bells (1929), The Cuckoo Murder Case (1930), Balloon Land (1935)
Wilfred Jackson
1906 – 1988
Born Chicago, Illinois, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: The Band Concert (1935), The Country Cousin (1936), The Old Mill (1937)
Chuck Jones
1912 – 2002
Born Spokane, Washington, USA
Key production country: USA
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: Bully for Bugs (1953), Duck Amuck (1953), One Froggy Evening (1955), What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
Highly recommended: Rabbit of Seville (1950), Feed the Kitty (1952), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century (1953)
Piotr Kamler
1936 –
Born Warsaw, Poland
Key production country: France
Le Labyrinthe (1969), Coeur de secours (1973), Le Pas (1975)
Kihachiro Kawamoto
1925 – 2010
Born Tokyo, Japan
Key production country: Japan
Highly recommended: Dojoji Temple (1976), House of Flames (1979), Sleeping Beauty (1990), and The Breaking of Branches is Forbidden, An Anthropo-Cynical Farce, The Demon, The Trip, A Poet’s Life, The Book of the Dead
William Kentridge
1955 –
Born South Africa
Key production country: South Africa
Highly recommended: Felix in Exile (1994), History of the Main Complaint (1996), Automatic Writing (2003)
Fyodor Khitruk
1917 –
Born Tver, USSR
Key production country: USSR
Highly recommended: Film, Film, Film (1968), Vinni Pukh (1969), Ostrov/The Island (1973)
Nikolai Khodataev
Key production country: USSR
Highly recommended: Interplanetary Revolution (1924), China In Flames (1925), We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled (1927)
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
1939 –
Born Moscow, USSR
Key production country: USSR
Highly recommended: The Glass Harmonica (1968), Armoire (1970), Butterfly (1972)
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