Dick Huemer

Visual Effects

Dick Huemer

Born 1898-01-02 · New York City, New York, USA

While as an artist-illustrator living in The Bronx, New York, Huemer first began his career in animation at the Raoul Barré cartoon studio in 1916. He joined the Fleischer Studio in 1923 where he developed the Koko the Clown character. Later he moved to Hollywood and worked as an animator and director for the Charles Mintz studio. He subsequently moved to the Disney Studio, where he remained for the duration of his career, except for a 3-year hiatus from 1948-51 when he pioneered animated TV commercials and created the The Adventures of Buck O'Rue comic strip.[1] Some of Huemer's most creative work was done in partnership with Joe Grant; examples include Fantasia (story director), Dumbo (screenplay), and several propaganda films to advance the U.S. war effort during World War II. Atypically, Huemer and Grant submitted Dumbo to Walt Disney not as a completed storyboard, but as a series of storyboard "chapters," each ending in a cliffhanger. This was intended to pique Disney's enthusiasm for the project, and it worked. Dick was at the Disney organization from April 16, 1933 to February 28, 1973.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Dumbo poster
7.0

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Dumbo

1941

Saludos Amigos poster
5.8

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life....South American-style.

Saludos Amigos

1942

Goofy and Wilbur poster
6.6

Goofy goes fishing with his best friend, Wilbur, a grasshopper.

Goofy and Wilbur

1939

Mickey Mouse Happy Birthday Show poster
NR

In commemoration of Mickey Mouse's 40th anniversary, this animated greeting contains highlights from a series of favorite Disney cartoons dating back to 1936.

Mickey Mouse Happy Birthday Show

1968

Everybody Loves Goofy poster
7.2

It's nonstop laughs as Goofy, the world's wackiest hound dog, returns in a hilarious collection of his greatest cartoon shorts. The whole family will enjoy Goofy's patented brand of comedy chaos.Travel to the circus as Goofy matches wits with Delores the elephant (guess who wins?) in "The Big Wash," and laugh out loud when the loveable loser leaves his house in shambles after helping out with the household chores in "Father's Day Off." You'll love every minute of Goofy's outrageous antics in this delightful collection, overflowing with the magic of Disney animation.

Everybody Loves Goofy

2003

Music Land poster
6.0

Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' and 'Melody Time'"; featuring cartoons from the 1946 musical, "Make Mine Music," and the 1948 musical "Melody Time") featuring Donald Duck, Joe Carioca, and other Disney cartoon characters, and also songs by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Frances Langford, Roy Rogers and Trigger, The Andrews Sisters (Laverne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews), Freddy Martin and his orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Jerry Colonna, and Ethel Smith

Music Land

1955

Der Fuehrer's Face poster
6.9

A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.

Der Fuehrer's Face

1943

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy poster
7.5

This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

2002

Peter and the Wolf poster
6.8

Disney's animated adaptation of Prokofiev's masterpiece, in which every character is represented musically by a different instrument. Young Peter decides to go hunting for the wolf that's been prowling around the village. Along the way, he is joined by his friends the bird, the duck and the cat. All the fun comes to end, however, when the wolf makes an appearance. Will Peter and his friends live to tell of their adventures?

Peter and the Wolf

1946

The Whalers poster
6.2

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are crewing a whaling ship. Their mishaps include Donald fighting off some hungry birds, Mickey and a bucket of water that keeps doing a boomerang impression, and Goofy firing the cannon and getting stuck high in the air, and ultimately inside a whale. And when he lands the whale well, let's just say they're gonna need a bigger boat.

The Whalers

1938

Mickey's Birthday Party poster
NR

Disney celebrates Mickey Mouse's 25th Anniversary with a feature-length compilation of six of his all-time fan-favorite cartoons: Mickey's Birthday Party; The Pointer; The Nifty Nineties; Tiger Trouble; Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip; and The Whaler.

Mickey's Birthday Party

1953

Camping Out poster
7.0

Scrappy, his little brother, and the dog take the car and drive to the camping grounds.

Camping Out

1932

The Story of the Animated Drawing poster
7.3

Walt Disney discusses the history of animation, beginning with J. Stuart Blackton and his Humorous Phases of Funny Faces in 1906, and including Gertie the Dinosaur.

The Story of the Animated Drawing

1955

Showing Off poster
8.0

Young Scrappy tries to impress a girl by smoking a cigar made out of cabbage, but he only succeeds in accidentally swallowing the cigar and setting her panties on fire.

Showing Off

1931

Down South poster
5.3

Toby the Pup is a steamboat skipper and there are lots of strange and wildly animated animals like always. There are inspirations from the early days of Mickey Mouse, especially Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy.

Down South

1931

The Museum poster
8.5

Toby the Pup, The Museum is only one of twelve cartoons produced and only seven still survive today. Created by animators Sid Marcus, Dick Huemer, and Art Davis. This cartoon is basically about a little dog who is a rather bad and cheeky museum cleaner. Not surprisingly, his boss is very impatient with him and urges him to keep cleaning. As the cleaner cleans, some of the things in the museum come to life.

The Museum

1930

The Museum poster
8.5

Toby the Pup, The Museum is only one of twelve cartoons produced and only seven still survive today. Created by animators Sid Marcus, Dick Huemer, and Art Davis. This cartoon is basically about a little dog who is a rather bad and cheeky museum cleaner. Not surprisingly, his boss is very impatient with him and urges him to keep cleaning. As the cleaner cleans, some of the things in the museum come to life.

The Museum

1930

Reason and Emotion poster
6.5

A World War II propaganda film about the need to remain calm and logical during wartime.

Reason and Emotion

1943

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10.0

A Toby the pup short.

Toby the Miner

1930

No artwork available
8.0

Scrappy and Oopy are trying to make a movie, but things aren't working out so they go door to door in Hollywood looking for actors. They find baby versions of mostly comedians and they all then dance about.

Hollywood Babies

1933

No artwork available
10.0

Scrappy the fireman.

False Alarm

1933

The Wolf at the Door poster
10.0

A goat is being held hostage in his own cabin by a wolf knocking at his door. The goat calls on his phone for help so Scrappy sends his little brother to arrest the wolf. But the younger bro keeps coming back from the winter snow until he has a couple of rubber hot water bottles on him.

The Wolf at the Door

1932

Hallowe'en poster
7.0

Toby the Pup organises a Halloween celebration. Some witches and elves join the party.

Hallowe'en

1931

Pedro poster
6.4

Pedro, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results.

Pedro

1943