{"id":394,"date":"2008-04-06T18:28:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T01:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/shamus-on-shamus\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T01:28:57","slug":"shamus-on-shamus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/shamus-on-shamus\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamus on Shamus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I first made personal contact with Shamus Culhane<\/a> when he wrote an incensed letter to Animato<\/em> 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<\/em> 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<\/em> with as much enthusiasm as he did about his own life and work.
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\nKip Williams<\/a> 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…<\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading “Shamus on Shamus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[45,189,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animato","category-ira-gallen","category-shamus-culhane"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}