George Dunning (1920 - 1979)

• animator, director
• born 1920, in Toronto, Ontario
• joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1943
• set up his own company in 1949
• went to England in 1956
• derived his themes from an irrational, surrealist world
• several of his films have won international awards
• his feature-length The Yellow Submarine (1968) was a great success
• also did The Beatles cartoon series
• filmography

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