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The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the popularization of sound synchronized cartoons in 1928, began to decline around 1957, and ended by 1969, when theatrical animated shorts started to lose popularity to the newer medium of television. Animated media from after the Golden Age were produced on cheaper budgets and with more limited animation techniques by companies such as Terrytoons, UPA, Famous Studios, Jay Ward Productions, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Rankin/Bass and Filmation. In artefact, the history of animation became very important in the United States.
Fleischer Studios was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Paramount Pictures, the parent company and the distributor of its films. In its prime, Fleischer Studios was a premier producer of animated cartoons for theaters, with Walt Disney Productions being its chief competitor in the 1930s.
Max Fleischer was a Polish-American animator, inventor, film director and producer, and studio founder and owner. Born in Kraków, Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios, which he co-founded with his younger brother Dave. He brought such comic characters as Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen, and was responsible for several technological innovations, including the rotoscope, the "follow the bouncing ball" technique pioneered in the Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes films, and the "stereoptical process". Film director Richard Fleischer was his son.
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Granite Hotel is a 1940 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer. Released in April of that year, it was the fourth in the Stone Age Cartoons series. The film is now in public domain.
Animated Antics is an animated cartoon series produced by the Fleischer Studios from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through Paramount Pictures.
Ants in the Plants is a Technicolor cartoon created by Fleischer Studios and originally released into theaters on March 15, 1940, by Paramount Studios. It was produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer; animators were Myron Waldman and George Moreno. Music for the cartoon was composed by Sammy Timberg. It was part of the Fleischer Studios series Color Classics produced by the studio between 1934 and 1941.
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- ↑ Richard Fleischer (2005). Out of the inkwell: Max Fleischer and the animation revolution. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813123550.
- ↑ Jeff Lenburg (2006). Who's who in animated cartoons: an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary animators . Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 90. ISBN 1-55783-671-X.
Stone Age Cartoons, Paramount.
- ↑ Stuart B. McIver (1998). Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags . Pineapple Press Inc. pp. 47. ISBN 1561641553.
Stone Age Cartoons, Paramount.
- ↑ Fred Grandinetti (2004). Popeye: an illustrated cultural history. McFarland. p. 46. ISBN 078641605X.
- ↑ Motion picture herald, Volume 139, Issues 1-6. Quigley Pub. Co. 1940. p. 53.
- ↑ Leslie Cabarga (1998). The Fleischer story. DaCapo Press. ISBN 0306803135.
- ↑ William C. Cline (1997). In the nick of time: motion picture sound serials. McFarland. pp. vii. ISBN 078640471X.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Motion Picture Copyright Registrations (1940-1949)
- ↑ Motion Picture Herald (January 1947)
- ↑ Motion Picture Herald (December 1946)
- 1 2 Motion Picture Copyright Registrations (1940-1949)
