Films
A chapter from Homer Price was adapted into a short film, The Doughnuts (1963). The same chapter was adapted for an ABC Weekend Special called "Homer and the Wacky Doughnut Machine" (1977). "The Case of the Cosmic Comic" was also adapted into a short film.
In 1964, film producer Morton Schindel and Weston Woods Studios (Norwalk, Connecticut) made the 18-minute Robert McCloskey, a documentary which is sometimes screened in art schools. The film shows McCloskey sitting in Boston Public Garden and intercuts pages from his sketchbook drawings for Make Way for Ducklings. The illustrator discusses experiences that have influenced his work and the relationship of craftsmanship to inspiration.
In McCloskey's hometown of Hamilton, Ohio, there is a statue depicting the title character and dog from his book Lentil (1940). In the book, the dog is unnamed, but after a competition among schoolchildren, the dog is now known as Harmony.
McCloskey was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000.
Read more about this topic: Robert McCloskey
Famous quotes containing the word films:
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
—Andy Warhol (c. 1928–1987)
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)