http://harrymccracken.com/blog Harry McCracken's blog Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/04/06/shamus-on-shamus/ http://harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/04/06/shamus-on-shamus/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:28:57 +0000 Harry http://www.harrymccracken.com/blog/2008/04/06/shamus-on-shamus/ I think I first made personal contact with Shamus Culhane when he wrote an incensed letter to Animato about a book review we’d published–of what book, I don’t remember. (By then, I was already a huge fan of his Talking Animals and Other People memoir, still one of the most indispensable books ever written about [...]]]> I think I first made personal contact with Shamus Culhane when he wrote an incensed letter to Animato about a book review we’d published–of what book, I don’t remember. (By then, I was already a huge fan of his Talking Animals and Other People memoir, still one of the most indispensable books ever written about animation.) Shamus may have been incensed, but he turned into a friend. We exchanged letters and talked on the phone, and I have extremely vivid memories of the two visits I made to his coop on West End in New York. Chatting with him in person was like getting a live, uncensored, funnier version of his memoir, although he talked about Animato with as much enthusiasm as he did about his own life and work.

Kip Williams pointed me to the videos below, which record parts of a 1989 interview that Ira Gallen conducted with Shamus. It’s wonderful to see him and hear that voice again, about thirteen years after I last saw him in person…

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