James 'Shamus' Culhane

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American animator and director who worked at nearly every major studio — Fleischer, Disney (Snow White, Pinocchio), Warner Bros., and Walter Lantz, where he directed the wartime Navy cartoon Take Heed Mr. Tojo (1943) and later headed the studio's animation unit. His memoir Talking Animals and Other People is a classic of animation history.

Directed

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Animation, Comedy

The first of four Mr. Hook cartoons made for the US Navy to sell war bonds. Set in 1953, sailor Hook tells his young son how buying bonds a decade earlier helped him defeat a Japanese fighter pilot attacking his aircraft carrier. The only Hook short produced at Walter Lantz Productions — in Technicolor — before the series moved to Warner Bros., and the only one directed by James "Shamus" Culhane, with Dick Nelson voicing Hook. A US government film in the public domain; like much wartime propaganda it trades in the racial caricatures of the era.

Animation · Comedy · War

Take Heed Mr. Tojo

1943 - Animation