John Canemaker is an American animator and animation historian, who grew up in Elgin, New York. He has designed and directed numerous animation sequences for award-winning documentaries, such as (1994), (1998), (1983) . His award-winning short films include (1993), (1983), and (1978). John Canemaker attended Marymount Manhattan College, from 1971-1974. While receiving his degree in communications, he undertook independent research at the Walt Disney archive, where his interest in animation blossomed. At Disney, he had the opportunity to interact with animation pioneers, who he eventually began to interview and record. After graduating from Marymount, Canemaker entered the New York University's film program, where he continued to conduct interviews with animators in the area. Two resulting works from this were (1977), and his master-of-fine-arts thesis, (1976). Mr. Canemaker has also written and contributed to many books, notably (Bobbs-Merrill: 1977), (Abbeville: 1982), and (Abbeville: 1987). He has also written essays, reviews, and articles on animation for national periodicals such as , , , and . Canemaker began teaching at N.Y.U. in 1980, and became chair of the animation department at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts in 1988. The John Canemaker Animation Collection opened to students and scholars in the Fales Collection at the Bobst Library at N.Y.U. in 1989. It is an archival resource on animation history that includes many of the recorded interviews he earlier collected. Canemaker continues to lecture throughout the United States and abroad.

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Canemaker, John. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.

Ingalls, Zoe. "Designs that Come to Life." . 4 April 1997.