Eggs (CM)

Quinzaine 1977 | Short film | 8mn

Tribute to John Hubley, 1977 Directors’ Fortnight
John Hubley, through the cosmic, fluid grace of his films, renews animation in its very core. The materials’ principle tunes the movements’s amazing slender with the natural dialogues recorded raw (children’s babble or jazzman’s slang) : he is the only animation director that adapts himself directly to speech.
We could go on forever about his capital role in american animation. Leaer of the UPA, pioneer of ideological animation, creator of 3mister Magoo » and « Gerald Mac Boeing Boeing », author of scientific fresco, he introduced painting techniques (oil, watercolours, wax) in animation, and gave extreme freedom to the human movements’ decomposition, which makes him on of the major teachers of image by image itself.
Robert BENAYOUN

Director

John Hubley

Born in 1914, John Hubley was an American animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films.
He started to work in animation in 1935 as a background and layout artist at Disney. He left the company during the 1941 animator’s strike, and found work directing films for Screen Gems and the Army’s First Motion Picture Unit until he went on to work for United Productions of America, which became famous for their highly stylized designs and limited animation.
In 1949 he was the creator of the Mr. Magoo cartoon character, based on an uncle, and directed the first Magoo cartoon. He was forced to leave UPA in 1952 when he refused to name names before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He founded Storyboard Studios the next year and worked on commercials – his name was blacklisted. He then moved his studio to New York in 1955, where he switched production over to independent short films.
He married Faith Elliott the same year as the studio’s move, and they collaborated on nearly every film he made until his death in 1977 at age 62.

Artistic & technical sheet

With
Anita Ellis
David Burns

Screenplay
Bent Hamer

Music
Quincy Jones

Production : THE HUBLEY PRODUCTION, NEW YORK

Eggs (CM)

Director

John Hubley

Artistic & technical sheet

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