John Canemaker Movies

A documentary about the early days of animation.

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 from Felix the Cat Collector’s Edition DVD

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

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

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

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...

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...