Jim MacKay

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James William "Jim" MacKay (born June 9, 1916 in Beaverton , Ontario , † October 26, 2002 in Oakville , Ontario) was a Canadian animator , director and film producer .

Life

MacKay studied at OCAD University in Toronto . He initially worked as a cartoonist and joined the National Film Board of Canada as a production assistant in 1942 . In the following year he became part of the NFB animation group and worked on the successful animation series Chants populaires . During his time at the NFB, MacKay experimented with new animation techniques. With Bit it up Sucker he created the NFB's first animated film in cel animation. In Stitch and Save he experimented with the animation of pencil drawings on paper and animated in Ten Little Farmers as the first at the NFB with colored cut-outs. From 1945 to 1949, he was the successor to Norman McLaren, who headed the NFB's animation department A.

After leaving the NFB, MacKay founded the animation studio Graphic Associates with George Dunning . Graphic Associates mainly created short animated films for advertising, such as 1949 Teeth Are to Keep , a short film about oral hygiene. The studio also released the first Canadian color commercial for a television station in Buffalo in 1950. Animators who worked for Graphic Associates included Richard Williams and Michael Snow . After Dunning's departure to United Productions of America in 1956, MacKay continued to run the studio under the name Film Design and ran it until his death in 2002.

For the NFB, MacKay and Wolf Koenig produced Ron Tunis ' short animation film The House that Jack Built in 1968 , for which both producers received an Oscar nomination in 1969 in the category of Best Animated Short .

Filmography

  • 1943: Stitch and Save
  • 1944: En roulant ma boule, series: Let's All Sing Together
  • 1944: Bid it Up Sucker
  • 1944: Joe Dope Helps Cause Inflation
  • 1947: Chantons Noël (producer)
  • 1947: Ten Little Farmers
  • 1947: Marian Congress
  • 1947: Stanley Takes a Trip (with Grant Munro )
  • 1948: A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 AD
  • 1948: Time and Terrain (producer)
  • 1949: Come to the Fair
  • 1949: Teeth Are to Keep
  • 1968: The House that Jack Built (with Wolf Koenig )

literature

  • MacKay, James (Jim) William . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 222-223.
  • Jim MacKay . In: Peter Morris: The Film Companion - A Comprehensive Guide To More Than 650 Canadian Films & Filmmakers . Irwin, Toronto 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Animation cels products: commercials in Canada , June 22, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME MacKay, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacKay, James William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian animator, director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaverton , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2002
Place of death Oakville , Ontario