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157. Michael Hirsh Interview: Animation Nation
Episode 157
Published 2 years, 3 months ago
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Michael Hirsh is interviewed about his biography: Animation Nation: How We Built A Cartoon Empire
- We experience nervousness (0:01)
- No on 15 promo (2:16)
- Meeting Michael Hirsch (3:27)
- The Caillou question! (5:10)
- Career beginnings/Star Wars Holiday Special (7:08)
- Creating vs acquiring a show (16:08)
- Care Bears love & Important of libraries (17:43)
- Working with George Lucas (21:06)
- Tales from the Crypt show, cartoon, and comic (24:31)
- Hand drawn vs computer animation (26:49)
- Making 'mature' cartoons and evolving animation (29:10)
- What drew Michael Hirsch to animation & comic history: comic books and Canadian superheroes: Nelvana, Captain Canuck (37:16)
- Personal histories (42:18)
- End of interview chatting (47:21)
- Watch Star Trek (51:05)
- Wrap up (52:00)
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