Editor's Notebook: A Word on Music and Animation
He was knowledgeable in all areas--productions, animation,
storyboard and story.
When a project was assigned to Harry Love you knew it was going to be done. Those that really knew him will miss him."
--Joe Barbera
Harry Love, despite his longevity (having started in animation some 70 years ago at Charles Mintz in New York), was not an animator who was known for the films and TV shows he worked on. Rather, he seemed to be someone who was known for the friendships and support he gave to his fellow artists. His friend and fellow producer-director George Singer noted that, "Harry was always behind the scenes; he was never really recognized as one of the big talents, but he was responsible for bringing up a lot of artists, animators, and writers." In this regard, he taught the writing segment of the evening classes Hanna-Barbera conducted for four or five years, from which, as Singer noted "came quite a few writers."
Part of his support he gave others were a series of short "Animation Profiles" he started to write in 1984 for Graffiti, ASIFA-Hollywood's magazine which I was then editing. It was not something assigned to him, rather it was something he wanted to do. He told me that his pieces, while not exactly great, were about people who should be better known. Admittedly, I was not at first very excited about his writing, but looking back today, these pieces remain remarkably fresh and informative. In fact, he very much reflected what his friend and sometime boss, Joe Barbera said about his professionalism.
Voice actor June Foray's recalls that she used to get Christmas cards from Harry long before she ever met him, or even knew who he was. She recalls that she "asked my husband, who was a screenwriter, `Do you know who Harry Love is?' He said, "No, I never heard of him." When I finally did meet him at DePatie Freleng, where he was a producer, I said, "How come you wrote to me all the time? And in his New York accent, he said, `Because I thought you were beautiful.' And after my husband died, he called me and we became first friends after that."
When a project was assigned to Harry Love you knew it was going to be done. Those that really knew him will miss him."
--Joe Barbera
Harry Love, despite his longevity (having started in animation some 70 years ago at Charles Mintz in New York), was not an animator who was known for the films and TV shows he worked on. Rather, he seemed to be someone who was known for the friendships and support he gave to his fellow artists. His friend and fellow producer-director George Singer noted that, "Harry was always behind the scenes; he was never really recognized as one of the big talents, but he was responsible for bringing up a lot of artists, animators, and writers." In this regard, he taught the writing segment of the evening classes Hanna-Barbera conducted for four or five years, from which, as Singer noted "came quite a few writers."
Part of his support he gave others were a series of short "Animation Profiles" he started to write in 1984 for Graffiti, ASIFA-Hollywood's magazine which I was then editing. It was not something assigned to him, rather it was something he wanted to do. He told me that his pieces, while not exactly great, were about people who should be better known. Admittedly, I was not at first very excited about his writing, but looking back today, these pieces remain remarkably fresh and informative. In fact, he very much reflected what his friend and sometime boss, Joe Barbera said about his professionalism.
Voice actor June Foray's recalls that she used to get Christmas cards from Harry long before she ever met him, or even knew who he was. She recalls that she "asked my husband, who was a screenwriter, `Do you know who Harry Love is?' He said, "No, I never heard of him." When I finally did meet him at DePatie Freleng, where he was a producer, I said, "How come you wrote to me all the time? And in his New York accent, he said, `Because I thought you were beautiful.' And after my husband died, he called me and we became first friends after that."
All of us in or near animation should only be so joyful.
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