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book review: Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Ranft And Joe Grant
- By Leonard Maltin
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- September 9, 2010 1:13 AM
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by John Canemaker
(Disney Editions)
In "Two Guys Named Joe", his tenth book, animation scholar John Canemaker has produced an exceptional dual biography of two men who made their mark on the world of animation. They were a generation apart, yet they managed to briefly cross paths. Joe Grant was an integral part of the Walt Disney studio during its greatest period of creativity in the 1930s and ′40s, then returned in the 1980s and remained active until his death at the age of 99 in 2005. Joe Ranft studied at Cal Arts, along with John Lasseter and Brad Bird, and ultimately became a key figure at Pixar as it—
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