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Thursday, December 15, 2005

HAWKINS, Emery

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Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 1986


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Emery Hawkins

Birth April 30, 1912, Jerome Arizona
Death June 1989, Taos New Mexico


Occupation/Title-
animator

Bio- Born in a small Arizona town. 
His parents divorced and his stepdad, moved his family to Hollywood. He always loved to draw and at 18 got a job inking cels at Walter Lantz. He moved up to animator. He worked around at the various studios working on a variety of films. Later on TV commercials. He retired after illness forced him to retire in 1982. He died of complications of Alzheimers Disease in 1989.
Summary

Early Life/Family
Emery’s father C.T.Hawkins, was a well known rodeo star and cowboy. Emery Hawkins was married and had a son and a daughter.
Education/Training
 self taught.
Career Outline

 Walter Lantz, then to Charles Mintz where he moved up to animator. At Walt Disney’s until the Strike of 1941 he was kept on shorts and never did any work on the features. In an age when many animators more or less stayed at one studio, Emery preferred to move around, freelancing and working in a number of styles. He went back to Lantz, then Disney again, then Archer, Warner Bros., MGM, UPA, Focus, Pelican, Zander’s Animation Parlour, Richard Williams.
Comments On Style- Emery had a wonderful loose and flowing style. ” I animate straight-ahead, backwards, upside down, anyway that works!”. He loved to experiment. Sometimes he animated in colors to coordinate his levels, sometimes in China Marker. Emery was the opposite of a tight controlled animator like Milt Kahl. He was all about broad movement.


Influences- Honore Daumier, 
Kimon Nicolaidies- He joked he never could get past chapter two of Nicolaidies famous book, the Natural Way to Draw, because it was all about gesture.

Personality- Emery was the Cowboy Animator, big boots, Stetson, rodeo cut bluejeans. Big silver beltbuckle. The quiet demeanor of a man used to solitiude.


Anecdotes
 Gil Miret recalled Emery would come over his house and they would party so hard, he’d wake up the next day having slept the night in their bathtub!

-When a teenager he did some poses of Disney characters and took them to the studio to try and get hired. He was sent packing because they were so good, the person reviewing his work thought he had traced them!
Miscellaneous-
From 1963 on he lived in his beloved Taos New Mexico, and had animation work from both Hollywood and New York shipped to him by mail.

Filmography

Charles Mintz Studio-
-1. The Little Match Girl (1937) (animator)
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-1. Walt Disney Studio-
-1. 
 Donald's Dilemma (1947) (animator)
-1. Donald's Dream Voice (1948) (animator)
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-1. Walter Lantz Studio-
-1. Doggone Cats (1947) (animator)
-1. Wide Open Spaces (1947) (animator)
-1. Apple Andy (1946) (animator)
-1. The Loose Nut (1945) (animator)
-1. Crow Crazy (1945) (animator) (uncredited)
-1. Fish Fry (1944) (animator)
-1. The Barber of Seville (1944) Although uncredited, Emery along with layout man Art Heineman worked on the modern redesign of Woody Woodpecker.
-1. Greatest Man in Siam (1944) (animator)
-1. The Painter and the Pointer (1943) (animator)
-1. The Dizzy Acrobat (1943) (animator)
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Warner Bros. Studio-
-1. Sleepy Time Possum (1951) (animator)
-1. Lovelorn Leghorn (1951) (animator)
-1. Leghorn Swoggled (1951) (animator)
French Rarebit (1951) Emery animated the climactic scene where Bugs shows the two predatory French chefs how to prepare Louisiana Back Bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise, a’ la Antoine!
-1. Early to Bet (1951) (animator)
-1. Two's a Crowd (1950) (animator)
-1. Rabbit of Seville (1950) (animator) Emery animated the opening scene of Bugs in drag.
-1. Stooge for a Mouse (1950) (animator)
-1. Canary Row (1950) (animator)
-1. Dog Gone South (1950) (animator)
-1. Hillbilly Hare (1950) (animator)- Emery animated the hilarious squaredance sequence.
-1. Golden Yeggs (1950) (animator)
-1. 8 Ball Bunny (1950) (animator)
-1. All a Bir-r-r-rd (1950) (animator)
-1. An Egg Scramble (1950) (animator)
-1. The Leghorn Blows at Midnight (1950) (animator)
-1. Strife with Father (1950) (animator)
-1. Boobs in the Woods (1950) (animator)
-1. Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950) (animator) 

-1. A Ham in a Role (1949) (animator)
-1. Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949) (animator)
-1. Bowery Bugs (1949) (animator)
-1. Porky Chops (1949) (animator)
-1. Holiday for Drumsticks (1949) (animator)
-1. A Hick a Slick and a Chick (1948) (animator)
-1. Two Gophers from Texas (1948) (animator)
-1. Riff Raffy Daffy (1948) (animator)
-1. The Stupor Salesman (1948) (animator)
-1. Odor of the Day (1948) (animator)
-1. Dough Ray Me-ow (1948) (animator)
-1. Bone Sweet Bone (1948) (animator)
-1. What Makes Daffy Duck (1948) (animator)
-1. Mouse Menace (1946) (animator)

Archer Productions
Emery Hawkins was the animator on the civil defense film Duck and Cover (1952) where Tommy Turtle shows children how to survive nuclear attack.

UPA- The Adventures of an Asterisk, 1957, The Tender Game, 1958
For Pelican Studios – TV commercials
Hamms Beer “Evolution” (Mel Brooks voice)
Goodyear Tigerpaws.
Richard Williams Studio, Lester Osterman Productions
Raggedy Ann & Andy 1977 (Emery’s first feature) Emery Hawkins did the Greedy Sequence in the Taffy Pit.
Richard Williams Studio Soho.
1980-1982- Amazing Nasruddin, aka Cobbler and the Thief, Emery tried some animation of the Mad Holy Old Witch trying to transform a client ( her son?) from a monster, not realizing he was always meant to be a monster. He did a lot of animated metamorphoses, reminiscent to his Greedy character in Raggedy Ann. Illness overtook him before he could finish. It was reanimated when the story changed and was cut from the final film.
Honors


Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 1986

839’s Golden Award 1988


Related Links

conelrad.com- The Duck & Cover Story 

Bibliographic References

Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic.
John Canemaker, the Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy, Bobbs & Merrill, 1977

Contributors To This Listing
Tom Sito


 
At 6:54 PM, Blogger Greg said...

He actually had 2 sons, bruce and wayne, and then in another marriage he had a daughter nancy.

 

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