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Susan Shadburne

{{Infobox person

| name= Susan Shadburne

| image = Susan Shadburne on set of Shadow Play.jpg

| caption = Shadburne in 1985

| birth_date = {{birth date|1942|12|16}}

| birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|04|24|1942|12|16}}

| death_place = Vancouver, Washington, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Filmmaker|director|screenwriter}}

| years_active = 1978–1994

| alma_mater = Stanford University

| spouse = Will Vinton (divorced){{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/will-vinton-filmmaker-and-animator-who-created-the-california-raisins-dies-at-70/2018/10/05/0e6645ce-c8ce-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html|title=Will Vinton, filmmaker and animator who created the California Raisins, dies at 70|date=October 6, 2018|author=Schudel, Matt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191217214147/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/will-vinton-filmmaker-and-animator-who-created-the-california-raisins-dies-at-70/2018/10/05/0e6645ce-c8ce-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html|archive-date=December 17, 2019|access-date=June 26, 2020|url-status=live}}

| children = 3

}}

Susan Carol Shadburne (December 16, 1942{{spaced ndash}}April 24, 2018){{cite web|url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Susan-Carol-Shadburne-106039880|work=Tributes.com|title=Susan Shadburne Obituary|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626223655/http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Susan-Carol-Shadburne-106039880|archive-date=June 26, 2020|url-status=live}} was an American screenwriter, director, producer, and filmmaker, best known for her collaborations with her husband, claymation animator Will Vinton. She wrote the screenplay for The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985), directed by Vinton, and wrote and directed the supernatural thriller film Shadow Play (1986). In addition to feature films, Shadburne wrote and directed several short films. Two of the short films Shadburne wrote that Vinton directed—Rip Van Winkle (1978) and The Great Cognito (1983) –were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Biography

Shadburne was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1960.{{cite web|publisher=Activating Happy|url=http://www.activatinghappy.com/speakers-2016/susan-shadburne/|title=Speakers: Susan Shadburne|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626223745/http://www.activatinghappy.com/speakers-2016/susan-shadburne/|archive-date=June 26, 2020}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.lincolnalum.org/resources/Newsletter/LHSAA-2018-Summer.pdf|title=In Memoriam|page=3|journal=The Alumni News|publisher=Lincoln High School|location=Portland, Oregon|date=Summer 2018|volume=21|issue=2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627210023/https://www.lincolnalum.org/resources/Newsletter/LHSAA-2018-Summer.pdf|archive-date=June 27, 2020}} She later attended Stanford University.

Shadburne began writing films in 1978 while married to animator Will Vinton, first a documentary short about Vinton's filmmaking process titled Claymation: Three Dimensional Clay Animation. She subsequently wrote the screenplay for Vinton's short film Rip Van Winkle (1978), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In 1982, she again wrote the screenplay for Vinton's short The Great Cognito, which was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

She collaborated with Vinton on the 1985 animated feature The Adventures of Mark Twain.{{sfn|Beck|2005|p=3}}{{cite web|url=https://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Mark%20Twain%20Notes.pdf|work=Treasures from the Yale Film Archive|publisher=Yale University Press|title=The Adventures of Mark Twain|url-status=live|date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404143542/https://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Mark%20Twain%20Notes.pdf|archive-date=April 4, 2020}} Shadburne researched Mark Twain extensively while writing the screenplay, adapting it from his autobiography and integrating direct quotes from him into the dialogue.{{sfn|Beck|2005|p=3}} The following year, she wrote, produced, and directed the supernatural thriller film Shadow Play (1986) starring Dee Wallace and Cloris Leachman.{{sfn|Weldon|1996|pages=497–498}}

In her later life, Shadburne worked as a medical intuitive and energy healer.

Death

Shadburne died on April 24, 2018, in Vancouver, Washington, aged 75, after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis.{{cite interview|title=An Interview with Dee Wallace|work=Shadow Play|medium=Blu-ray interview short|publisher=Scorpion Releasing|year=2019}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
scope="col"| Year

! scope="col"| Film

! scope="col"| Director

! scope="col"| Writer

! scope="col"| Producer

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference(s)}}

1978

! scope="row"| Claymation: Three Dimensional Clay Animation

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Documentary short

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|publisher=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/229550901|title=Claymation: three dimensional clay animation (TEFC)|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626230051/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/229550901|archive-date=June 26, 2020|access-date=June 26, 2020}}

1978

! scope="row"| Rip Van Winkle

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

| style="text-align:center;"|

1979

! scope="row"| {{sortname|The|Little Prince|nolink=yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|title=The little prince; Performers/Contributors: Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944 ; Shadburne, Susan ; Vinton, Will|publisher=Toronto Public Library|url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=164954|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626230141/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=164954|archive-date=June 26, 2020|access-date=June 26, 2020|url-status=live}}

1979

! scope="row"| Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1979

! scope="row"| {{sortname|The|Legend of Black Thunder Mountain|nolink=yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

| style="text-align:center;"| {{sfn|Pitts|2012|p=188}}

1980

! scope="row"| Dinosaur

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1980

! scope="row"| {{sortname|The|Diary of Adam and Eve|nolink=yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1981

! scope="row"| {{sortname|A|Family Affair|nolink=yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|publisher=AllMovie|title=Susan Shadburne Credits|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/susan-shadburne-p110912|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626232207/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/susan-shadburne-p110912|archive-date=June 26, 2020}}

1982

! scope="row"| {{sortname|The|Great Cognito}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1985

! scope="row"| {{sortname|The|Adventures of Mark Twain|The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

| style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|work=The New York Times|date=January 17, 1986|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/17/movies/screen-adventures-of-mark-twain.html|url-status=live|title=Screen: 'Adventures of Mark Twain'|archive-date=June 26, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626230313/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/17/movies/screen-adventures-of-mark-twain.html|author=Canby, Vincent|author-link=Vincent Canby|access-date=June 26, 2020}}

1986

! scope="row"| Shadow Play

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

| style="text-align:center;"| {{sfn|Weldon|1996|p=497}}

1987

! scope="row"| King Cole's Party

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

| style="text-align:center;"| {{sfn|Atkinson|Zippan|1995|p=59}}

1987

! scope="row"| Turn Around

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Documentary film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1988

! scope="row"| Grandpa's Magical Toys

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

|

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web|publisher=British Film Institute|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba34e8051|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200626230521/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba34e8051|archive-date=June 26, 2020|title=Susan Shadburne|access-date=June 26, 2020}}

1990

! scope="row"| {{sortname|The|Ultimate Challenge|nolink=yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1992

! scope="row"| We Are Family

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

1994

! scope="row"| Making a Difference

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Short film

| style="text-align:center;"|

Accolades

class="wikitable unsortable plainrowheaders" style="width:55%;"
style="width:20%;"| Institution

! style="width:4%;"| Year

! style="width:25%;"| Category

! style="width:20%;"| Recipient

! style="width:12%;"| Result

! style="width:1%;" | {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}

scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| Academy Awards

| 1978

| rowspan="2"| Best Animated Short Film

| style="text-align:center;"| Rip Van Winkle

| {{nom}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979|work=Oscars.org|title=The 51st Annual Academy Awards|date=5 October 2014 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141013113402/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979|archive-date=October 13, 2014|access-date=June 27, 2020}}

1983

| style="text-align:center;"| The Great Cognito

| {{nom}}

| style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|website=Oscars.org|url=https://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/will-vinton-collection|title=The Will Vinton Collection|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200627000314/https://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/will-vinton-collection|archive-date=June 27, 2020}}

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Doug|last2=Zippan|first2=Fiona|year=1995|title=Videos for Kids: The Essential, Indispensable Parent's Guide to Children's Movies on Video|isbn=978-1-559-58635-1|publisher=Prima Pub.|location=Rocklin, California}}
  • {{cite book|last=Beck|first=Jerry|title=The Animated Movie Guide|year=2005|publisher=Chicago Review Press|location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=978-1-569-76222-6}}
  • {{cite book|last=Pitts|first=Michael R.|title=Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Film|page=188|edition=2nd|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn= 978-0-786-46372-5|year=2012}}
  • {{cite book|last=Weldon|first=Michael|year=1996|title=The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film|isbn=978-0-312-13149-4|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York City, New York}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0787165}}

{{Will Vinton Productions}}

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