Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation
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Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation Details
About the Author Andy Mangels is the USA Today best-selling author and co-author of over twenty fiction and nonfiction books including many Star Trek and Roswell books, as well as Iron Man: Beneath The Armor, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters and Animation on DVD: The Ultimate Guide, and other tomes. He also co-wrote an adventure story that heavily referenced the Filmation series, for Moonstone Books Tales of Zorro anthology. Read more
Reviews
BOTTOM LINE: If you grew up watching ANY of the dozens of cartoons & live action series that Filmation created during its 25+ year history... this book is for you. If you never saw a single episode of ANY of these shows but are interested in the animation business and, specifically, the struggle to keep American animators working in a time when everyone was shipping their work overseas in an effort to maximize profit... this book is for you. If you think you'd enjoy reading about how a wide-eyed young boy stuck to his ideals, through good times & bad, and grew up to found and run a company that indirectly helped raise an entire generation of kids in turn... this book is for you. In short, this book is for you. :-) 5 STARSTHOUGHTS: Lou Scheimer found his niche in life and stuck with it, eventually helping to co-found one of the most prolific animation studios in U.S. history. And he was the lone hold-out who kept American animation going strong on our shores until, eventually, an 11th-hour business salvation deal, (which Lou truly believed would rescue Filmation and keep it going strong for several more years), sadly turned out to be nothing of the kind... and he had the business ripped away from him, causing the end of U.S.-based animation. Probably forever. Still, the story found within these pages is mostly a great (and happy) one, with lots of fascinating details and first-hand insight into the beloved shows that Filmation produced for almost three decades; packed with behind-the-scenes trivia and personal tidbits, interwoven in a easy informal style that will keep you whirring through to pages right up to the final sentence. This book is fascinating, fun and funny, and will be of interest to both Filmation fans & casual cartoon watchers alike. Please note: despite the description on this product page, only a handful of the pictures inside are in color. But in the end, it's the stories contained within that are important here, not whether a certain number of pages are in color or black & white. Absolutely worth buying if you grew up watching Filmation shows. "Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation" is a self-contained slice of motion picture, television & animation history and comes very highly recommended.
