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Maurice Leakey
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posted June 02, 2014 06:12 AM

I have six films of Sheila Graber's animation work distributed by DCR.
Does anyone have any information on her work, why, for instance, are her films so short, were they intended for short fill-ins on television perhaps?

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Paul Mason
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posted June 02, 2014 07:29 AM

Some of the DCR releases were Sheila's amateur work before she turned professional in 1980 but the Just So series were shown on the BBC. See article here:
http://ukanimation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/interview-with-sheila-graber.html

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Maurice Leakey
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posted June 02, 2014 09:48 AM

Thank you, Paul. Very interesting, she mentions many of the titles I have. It seems they were the work of an amateur having fun after discovering how her camera's single frame release button worked.

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Paul Mason
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posted June 03, 2014 02:55 AM

What a talent though! In the mid 70s she was often mentioned in the pages of "Movie Maker" and no Ten Best winners list seemed complete without at least one Graber film.

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