Derek Lamb
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Derek Lamb (1936- 2005) was an Academy Award-winning animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner Special Delivery, directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted Eugene Fedorenko's Every Child.
In 1983, Derek and former wife, animator Janet Perlman, formed an independent production company. Lamb and Fedorenko collaborated on the first animation sequences for an IMAX film, Skyward, first presented at Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
With Fedorenko and Perlman, Lamb created the animated title sequence for the PBS series Mystery!, based on the art of Edward Gorey.
[edit] External links
- Derek Lamb at the Internet Movie Database
- Watch - Special Delivery (1978)on YouTube
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia [online publication, The Film Reference Library of the Toronto International Film Festival Group]
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