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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

Instruction: George Clayton Johnson- Screenwriting For Television

George Clayton Johnson and Robert Redford
On The Set Of “Nothing In The Dark”

On Saturday January 14th 2012, the Animation Creative League hosted a program featuring the legendary screenwriter George Clayton Johnson.

Mr. Johnson is well qualified to speak on this subject. He was one of the principal writers on Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone”, writing both stories and screenplays for such legendary episodes as “The Four of Us Are Dying”, “Kick the Can”, “A Game of Pool”, and “Nothing in the Dark”. He also was the writer of the first regular episode of Star Trek to air, “The Man Trap” and the feature films “Logan’s Run” and “Oceans 11”. He was part of a group of Southern California science fiction writers that included Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Charles Beaumont. He collaborated with Ray Bradbury on the story for “Icarus Montgolfier Wright”, an Academy Award nominated animated film produced by Format Films.

George Clayton Johnson’s
“A Game of Pool”

If you missed this program, you missed out on a once in a lifetime event. Thankfully, Mr. Johnson has been interviewed extensively and the interviews have been posted to YouTube. Here is a ten part interview that covers his life and career.

GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON INTERVIEW
(Click to play all ten parts back to back as a playlist)

PART ONE (Direct YouTube Link)

PART TWO (Direct YouTube Link)

PART THREE (Direct YouTube Link)

PART FOUR (Direct YouTube Link)

PART FIVE (Direct YouTube Link)

PART SIX (Direct YouTube Link)

PART SEVEN (Direct YouTube Link)

PART EIGHT (Direct YouTube Link)

PART NINE (Direct YouTube Link)

PART TEN (Direct YouTube Link)

Many thanks to George Clayton Johnson for generously spending his time with us.

Stephen Worth and George Clayton Johnson
at the Creative League meeting.

Photos by Eddie Fitzgerald and Alex Camarillo

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

This posting is part of an online series of articles dealing with Instruction.

This posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit entitled Theory.

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Monday, May 23rd, 2016

REFPACK010: DOWNLOAD A Reel Of Theatrical Chiquita Banana Commercials From 1947!

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May-June 2016

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Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. These downloadable files are high resolution e-books on a variety of educational subjects and rare cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources in DVD quality. Our current Reference Pack has just been released. If you are a member, click through the link to access the MEMBERS ONLY DOWNLOAD PAGE. If you aren’t a member yet, please JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.

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Keds Commercial Reel

Chiquita Banana Reel

John Sutherland Productions (1947)

Originally called “Miss Chiquita”, the character mascot for Chiquita Bananas was designed in 1944 by cartoonist Dik Brown, creator of the “Hagar the Horrible” comic strip. Patterned after singer Carmen Miranda, the character was intended to introduce the exotic tropical fruit to the American public. The jingle, written by ad agency executives Garth Montgomery and Len MacKenzie is among the most popular commercial jingles of all time.

This reel of theatrical Chiquita Banana commercials came to me as something of a mystery. It surfaced with a film collector who didn’t know what studio produced it. All he knew was the date- 1947. I’ve since been told that these shorts were the work of the John Sutherland studio. The animation, backgrounds and color styling in these theatrical commercials are first rate. If you have any more information about the people who worked on them, please share the info in the Animation Resources Facebook groups.

REFPACK010: Chiquita Banana Reel

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Saturday, May 21st, 2016

June/July 2016 Reference Pack Available NOW For Download!

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Lots of great material to study this time! A high resolution e-book featuring the work of one of the most important political cartoonists of all time, a rare reel of Chiquita Banana theatrical commercials from 1947, and two rare Fleischer bouncing ball cartoons you can still frame through and study. That’s 330 pages of great cartooning and almost 40 minutes of rare classic animation. If you aren’t a member of Animation Resources yet, WHY NOT?

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