Eunice Macaulay

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Eunice Macaulay (born July 5, 1923 in St. Helen’s , England - † July 8, 2013 in Hawkesbury , Ontario ) was a British animator and film producer.

Life

Macaulay attended school in England and then worked for the Pilkington Brothers as a chemist. During the Second World War she was active as a radio mechanic in the Royal Navy and after the end of the war she worked as a saleswoman in a glass factory. She was drawn to the attention of Gaumont British Animation by a self-designed Christmas card, which she hired as a tracer in 1948. Macaulay soon rose to head the drawing department. She stayed with Gaumont until 1951 and then took on smaller jobs at various companies. From 1953 Macaulay, who now had a husband and two children and had moved to Scotland, worked as a freelancer for television and advertising, among other things. In 1960 Macaulay went to the United States, where her husband became active as a filmmaker. She freelanced for him as well as for the Canadian NFB and Hilary Harris Films.

In 1969, Macaulay first worked for Potterton Productions as coordinator of the animators and in other organizational and controlling functions. Macaulay moved to Canada in 1973 and joined the NFB in the same capacity. With John Weldon , Macaulay created the short animated film Special Delivery in 1978 , which remained her only directorial work, and for which she received an Oscar in 1979 . Macaulay was mainly active as a producer and screenwriter: She worked as a screenwriter, among other things, on the Oscar-nominated film Paradise by Ishu Patel and produced George and Rosemary , for which she received her second Oscar nomination in 1988. In 1990 Macaulay officially left the NFB but continued to be involved in NFB productions. The last film she worked on was The Long Enchantment in 1993 .

Filmography

  • 1978: Special Delivery (screenwriter, director)
  • 1984: Blackberry Subway Jam (Producer)
  • 1984: Canada Vignettes: Emergency Numbers (Producer)
  • 1985: Paradise (screenwriter)
  • 1986: Lucretia (producer)
  • 1986: Summer Legend (writer, producer)
  • 1987: George and Rosemary (producer)
  • 1987: Dreams of a Land (screenwriter, producer)
  • 1988: The Wanderer
  • 1991: Lord of the Sky (producer)
  • 1992: No Problem (producer)
  • 1993: The Long Enchantment (writer, producer)

Awards

literature

  • Macaulay, Eunice . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons. An international guide to film on television's award-winning and legendary animators . Applause Books, New York 2006, pp. 220-221, ISBN 1-557-83671-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See femfilm.ca
  2. ^ Obituary , accessed March 9, 2018
  3. ↑ Eunice Macaulay on the NFB website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.onf-nfb.gc.ca  
personal data
SURNAME Macaulay, Eunice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British animator and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Helen’s , England
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2013
Place of death Hawkesbury , Ontario