Animation historian Maureen Furniss revisits the Ottawa grand prize-winning short "The Man Who Planted Trees."
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Lotte Reiniger (20)
The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart
Bruno Bozzetto (20)
Tapum! The History of Weapons
Frank Tashlin (20)
Hook & Ladder Hokum
Walt Disney (20)
Little Red Riding Hood
Friz Freleng (22)
Fiery Fireman
Seth MacFarlane (23)
Larry & Steve
Genndy Tartakovsky (23)
2 Stupid Dogs (TV)
Bob Clampett (24)
Porky’s Badtime Story (or 23 if you count When’s Your Birthday)
Pen Ward (25)
Adventure Time (TV)
Joanna Quinn (25)
Girl’s Night Out
Ralph Bakshi (25)
Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy
Chuck Jones (26)
The Night Watchman
Richard Williams (26)
The Little Island
Tex Avery (27)
Gold Diggers of ’49
Bill Hanna (27)
Blue Monday
Joe Barbera (28)
Puss Gets the Boot
John Hubley (28)
Old Blackout Joe
John Lasseter (29)
Luxo Jr.
Brad Bird (29)
Amazing Stories: “Family Dog” (TV)
Hayao Miyazaki (30)
Rupan Sansei (TV)
Nick Park (30)
A Grand Day Out
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Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (TV)
Pete Docter (33)
Monsters Inc.
Ward Kimball (39)
Adventures in Music: Melody
Bill Plympton (39)
Boomtown
Winsor McCay (40)
How a Mosquito Operates
Don Bluth (41)
The Small One
Frederic Back (46)
Abracadabra
Emile Cohl (51)
Fantasmagorie
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“Animation is a young man’s game,” Chuck Jones once said. There’s no question that animation is a labor-intensive art that requires mass quantities of energy and time. While it’s true that the majority of animation directors have directed a film by the age of 30, there are also a number of well known directors who started their careers later.
Directors like Pete Docter, John Kricfalusi and Bill Plympton didn’t begin directing films until they were in their 30s. Don Bluth, Winsor McCay and Frederic Back were late bloomers who embarked on directorial careers while in their 40s. Pioneering animator Emile Cohl didn’t make his first animated film, Fantasmagorie (1908), until he was 51 years old. Of course, that wasn’t just Cohl’s first film, but it is also considered by most historians to be the first true animated cartoon that anyone ever made.
Here is a cross-selection of 30 animation directors, past and present, and the age they were when their first professional film was released to the public.
- Don Hertzfeldt (19 years old)
Ah, L’Amour
Ah, L’Amour
The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart
Tapum! The History of Weapons
Hook & Ladder Hokum
Little Red Riding Hood
Fiery Fireman
Larry & Steve
2 Stupid Dogs (TV)
Porky’s Badtime Story (or 23 if you count When’s Your Birthday)
Adventure Time (TV)
Girl’s Night Out
Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy
The Night Watchman
The Little Island
Gold Diggers of ’49
Blue Monday
Puss Gets the Boot
Old Blackout Joe
Luxo Jr.
Amazing Stories: “Family Dog” (TV)
Rupan Sansei (TV)
A Grand Day Out
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (TV)
Monsters Inc.
Adventures in Music: Melody
Boomtown
How a Mosquito Operates
The Small One
Abracadabra
Fantasmagorie