[NEohioPAL] Classic Movie Fan Profiles: Noell Wolfgram Evans

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Classic Movie Fan Profiles: Noell Wolfgram Evans 
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Timothy Collingwood, Akron Classic Movies Examiner 
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Noell  Wolfgram Evans is a playwright, animation historian, and a two-time  
winner of the Thurber Treat award. Though currently a native of  Columbus, Ohio, 
Evans grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and went to the  University of Akron. 
Noell has also recently published a book, Animators of Film and Television: 
Nineteen Artists, Writers, Producers, and Others. The  novel is part history, 
part biography, and part artistic commentary. It  explores animation in 
entertainment throughout history and its effect  on popular culture. 

 
Historically, animation mostly appeared in shorts  between movies at theaters 
between showings, but with the innovations of  Walt Disney and other animators 
who experimented and made feature full  length movies, animation began to impact 
not only the entertainment  industry, but popular culture in general. Noell 
discovered this while he  started after college freelancing in the Akron area, 
writing history  pieces and learned more about people. Being a classic movie 
lover  himself, he found these animators interesting in the development of  
modern film. Films like The General, North By Northwest, Fail Safe, Dog Day 
Afternoon, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, and The Front Page,  piqued his own 
interests to write better stories of those qualities,  founded on nuances and 
characters and to write plays and scenes of that  artistic quality. He also 
hopes that something he wrote will strike  people in that need-to-know mark and 
be a touchstone that people will  remember and still remember even after twenty 
years. 

 
Within an emailed interview, we talked about people highlighted in his book. 
Here are highlights from that interview:
 
What have you discovered about these animators and how has it contributed to 
your appreciation of them? 

What I discovered and what I hope people get a real feel  for is how the people 
in the book really affected popular culture and  in many cases the comedic 
landscape of today.
 
 

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