| LC control no. | no2018147146 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | MacKay, Jim, 1916-2002 |
| Variant(s) | MacKay, James, 1916-2002 |
| Other standard no. | nm0533172 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Located | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Birth date | 1916-06-09 |
| Death date | 2002-10-26 |
| Place of birth | Beaverton (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Oakville (Ont.) |
| Field of activity | Animated films--Production and direction Motion pictures--Production and direction |
| Profession or occupation | Animators Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture directors Motion picture producers |
| Found in | Chants populaires, University of Washington Libraries Media Center, 2013: credits (Jim MacKay) Lenburg, Jeff. Who's who in animated cartoons, 2006: page 222 (MacKay, James (Jim) William, b. June 9, 1916, Beaverton, Ontario, Canada; d. October 26, 2002, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Esteemed Canadian artist, animator, director, peorducer and filmmaker, and first animator to use colored cutout animation for the National Film Board of Canada, whose inventive use of plasticine models and legendary work for the board and others won plaudits and awards from around the world) Canadian encyclopedia, March 15, 2017 (James MacKay, animator, director, producer (born at Beaverton, Ont 9 Jun 1916; died at Oakville, Ont 26 Oct 2002). Jim MacKay began drawing in high school and attended the Ontario College of Art. As a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animator for 8 years, he worked with the legendary Norman McLaren, who groomed him to be his successor. MacKay was named director of animation in 1945 but resigned from the NFB in 1949 to establish Graphic Associates in Toronto, Canada's first private animation company, with another NFB alumnus, George Dunning. Graphic Associates made some of the first television commercials in Canada. When Dunning left for England in the mid 1950s, MacKay opened his own shop, Film Design, which he continued to run until his death) https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/james-mackay IMDb, March 16, 2017 (Jim Mackay (I) (1916-2002), producer, director, animation department. Born: June 9, 1916 in Beaverton, Ontario, Canada; Died: October 26, 2002 (age 86) in Oakville, Ontario, Canada) |
| Associated language | eng fre |
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