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THE FLEISCHER STUDIO AND MODELING by Maureen Furniss, Ph.D. Max and Dave Fleischer, the founders of the studio eventually called the Fleischer Studio, came from a family of inventors that had emigrated from Europe to New York in 1887.
The Fleischer Studio In the early years of animation Max Fleischers studio was the most succsessfull, and pioneered many technical inovations including the invention of the rotoscope and the first use of sound (in 1924).
As their studio grew, the roles of the brothers gradually changed: Max, while nominally still the lead animator, became involved primarily in the production and administration end, while Dave switched from animator (and clown model) to the lead director for all the studio's cartoons.
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  Fleischer Studios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Throughout the 1920s, the studio proved to be one of the top producers of animation with clever humour and numerous innovations.
The studio even experimental sound films years before The Jazz Singer, although attracted little interest, in part because only a small number of theaters were equipt with electronic speakers at the time.
With the full adoption of sound films in the late 1920s, the studio was one of the few animation companies to successfully make the transition with a new series called Talkartoons with a new character called Bimbo.
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 Fleischer Studios : Fleicher Studios
Fleisher Studios was an American Hollywood animation company headed by the brothers, Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer[?] who ran the company from 1921-1942.
These included sing along shorts which were the precursor to music videos, extended length educational films on subjects like relativity, and even experimental sound films years before The Jazz Singer which attracted little interest.
Their best work of this later period was the animated adaptation of the Superman comic character which boasted both the biggest budget ever for a theatrical short series and a return to the original urban tone of the studio which guided its excellent animation and writing which won it an Oscar for the premiere film.
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 Jack Mercer
Jack Mercer (1909-1984) began his work in cartoons as an inbetweener, an apprentice animator at Fleicher Studios.
Mercer continued to voice the one-eyed sailor for the Fleischers, for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons (1942-57), for a series of television cartoons for King Features, and for a Saturday morning cartoon show (1978) produced by Joe Barbara and Bill Hanna.
Mercer also did other cartoon voices, including all the voices for a series of Felix the Cat cartoons produced in 1959-60.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jack_Mercer.html   (146 words)

  
 Dismuke's Hit Of The Week
Since Ballew was very much in demand as a studio vocalist, he continued to accept work for other record labels recording under the name "Buddy Blue." Smith Ballew was recently profiled in my May 26, 2005 update.
Gold was another highly prolific recording studio bandleader in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Elmer Feldkamp was an early 1930s crooner who was quite prolific in the recording studios singing with a variety of bands on different labels.
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 All Shop's Fine Art : Studio 58
Circa 1930's hand-colored photograph from the studio of Charles Henry Sawyer (1868-1954).
Located in Farmington, ME, the Sawyer Studio relocated to Concord, NH to be closer to the White Mountains.
Studio 58 offers a carefully edited collection of fine art, sculpture and studio objects for the discriminating collector.
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Fleischer Studios was founded in the 1920’s by Max Fleischer, the world-renowned animator who created “Betty Boop” and “Koko the Clown” of the “Out of the Inkwell” cartoon series.
The son of Max Fleischer and Fleischer Studios Chairman of the Board, Richard Fleischer is one of Hollywood’s most prominent directors.
President of Fleischer Studios and son of Richard Fleischer, Mark Fleischer also serves as managing partner of the Los Angeles office of the law firm Squadron, Ellenoff, Pleasant and Sheinfeld.
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 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Max Fleischer Studio
The Fleischer Studio teamed with Dr. Lee DeForest, an early sound experimenter, to produce sing-along cartoons with sound as early as 1924.
When the true sound revolution did come, the Fleischer Studio was one of the few animation producers to survive the transition.
In fact, it was in one of their first few "Talkartoons" (as they called their early post-Mickey sound cartoons) that they introduced their biggest star — Betty Boop.
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 Comic creator: Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer is best known as the co-founder of the famous Fleischer Studios, one of the first animation studios, which he started together with his borthers Dave and Joe.
At the end of the 1920s, the studio's top artist Grim Natwick came up with a new female character: a seductive, nameless side-character who was modeled after Helen Kane, a waning Hollywood star at the time, known for her high-pitched "Boop-Oop-a-doop".
As the fame of the cartoon character increased, the popularity of the live actress and singer Helen Kane diminished, and she threatened with lawsuits, all of which were unsuccessful.
www.lambiek.net /artists/f/fleischer_max.htm   (420 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Max Fleischer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
While she flourished in the '20s, the introduction of the Hays Code, which censored anything it saw as licentious in films, dampened Boop’s sexuality, and her appeal was effectively killed.
As the studio grew, the Fleischers expanded their line to include Popeye and an animated adaptation of the classic “Gulliver’s Travels.” On the tail of these '30s successes, they were contracted in 1941 to animate a new comic book character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Seigel.
When the Fleishers’ studio was acquired by Paramount a few years later, the brothers were asked to compete with Disney by creating a full-length animated feature.
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 Animation Station Podcast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Fleischer Studios was founded in 1921 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer.
In a attempt to better compete with Disney, the brothers moved their studios from New York to Florida in 1937.
But the new studios, larger staff and the lack-luster success of their two animated feature files, Gulliver's Travels and Mister Bug Goes to Town resulted in financial troubles.
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 DVD Review - The latest DVD Video and Movie News
Max Fleicher's Superman cartoons have long been in the public domain and have been subject to a slew of substandard DVD releases (the kind that go for $1.00 from a big cardboard box at retail stores).
Fleischer Studios produced seventeen Superman cartoons and were shown to audiences between 1941 and 1943.
It was typical for movie theatres to show at least one short cartoon before the feature film, which has since been replaced with straight advertising.
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 studios
In some cases, especially in Anime they have things in common with artists studios where a Master or group of talented individuals oversee the work of lesser artists and crafts persons in realising their vision.
Bray Productions was the dominant animated series studio in the years before World War I.The studio was founded in December of 1914 by J. Bray, perhaps the first studio entirely devoted to animation, and series animation at that (he was probably beaten a few months earlier by Raoul Barré's studio).
Of cousre, these Studios and others are not the focus of this site, which will be featuring information on Japanese studios, however I thought it was important to mention some of the leading studios which influenced the industry and assisted in creating the animation industry that exist today.
www.geocities.com /anime_mania2006/studios.html   (329 words)

  
 AWN Headline News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Mark Fleischer, grandson of the legendary cartoon mogul Max Fleischer and president of Fleischer Studios, will be presented with the key to Miami-Dade County in Florida at 10:00 am on August 14, 2003.
The studio moved from New York City to Miami in 1938 and remained there until joining Paramount in 1943.
Fleischer Studios, now based in the Los Angeles area, is developing media and other opportunities for the classic BETTY BOOP, along with King Features Syndicate, which acts as the worldwide merchandising representative for the character.
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 FLEISCHER STUDIOS - Gullivers Travels Cels Drawings
The images seen here are the property of Fleischer Studios and other studios.
They are intended only as illustrations of the artwork being offered and may not be reproduced in any form for any other purpose without the permission of their respective owners.
Animation's history may now be dominated by Disney but many of its techniques were pioneered by Max Fleischer's rival studio, which invented the characters of Popeye and Betty Boop and was the first to animate Superman.
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 Flixens | The Real Heroes of Superman, Part 3
Fleischer Studios may have reluctantly accepted the job of bringing Superman to the big screen for the first time, but it is undeniable that their contribution to the Superman mythos had a large part in the world-wide recognition of the character.
And while the studio's treatment at the hands of Paramount is similar to what happened to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Superman's creators, we are lucky to have these cartoons as part of our popular culture, as well as part of the Superman canon in general.
Letters I have seen from studio manager, Sam Buckwald indicate that they were shipping the film negatives from Miami to the Technicolor labs in Hollywood.
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 Ralph Bakshi / Biography
Practicing nights and weekends he quickly became an inker, and then directly to animator (by claiming an empty desk on the animators floor and, claiming that he was promoted to animator, (13) asked for scenes to animate for characters such as Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, (14) Deputy Dawg, Foofle & Lariat Sam.
At 28 he created and directed The Mighty Heroes (15) and was made Creative Director of the studio.
In 1967 Bakshi (17) accepted the position of Producer and Director of Paramount Cartoon Studios (aka Famous Studios) which had been the Max Fleicher Studio.
www.ralphbakshi.com /bio.php   (290 words)

  
 Max Fleischer - Technical Innovations, Betty Boop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
And so it was, that in 1934 he devised a new filming method which would place cartoon characters in their most realistic settings yet.
Between 1924 and 1925, the idea came up within the Fleischer Studios to place these words on to film.
That was a fair idea in it's self, but it was decided to take this thought a step further and also provided some guidance (as to what to sing and when) for the audience.
www.digitalmediafx.com /Features/maxfleischer.html   (1402 words)

  
 Betty Boop's Forum & Community - Art and animation quality.
She was, however, Inkwell and the Fleichers' top star, and she got the best cartoonists around.
Modern cartoons, for all their color and computer wizardy, don't get the care and attention that the hand-drawn ones got.
Whether the Fleicher's other less-reputable subliminal techniques were also used (I won't go into that in a family forum) is a matter for speculation.
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 Max Fleischer Summary
A key part of the studios' business strategies was the development of cartoon characters whose popularity would guarantee bookings by major theater chains.
In 1919 he established Fleischer Studios for producing animated cartoons and short subjects.
In the late 1930s, Fleischer Studios moved from New York to Miami, Florida.
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 Ottawa 04 International Animation Festival
Over the last four decades, there have been many revivals of the “Popeye” cartoon series, but numerous cheaply produced animated films, made exclusively for TV, have never been able to match the quality of drawing and animated detail, the frantic energy and unprecedented charm, the hilarious self-consciousness and whimsical plasticity of the original Fleischer shorts.
Popeye is challenged by the Bruiser Boys Club motto: “Can you take it?” In order to prove himself worthy of the club's membership, the sailorman must endure a number of painful tasks.
A major attraction when it was released in 1936, it was released and marketed on the same scale as a feature film.
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 The ORIGINAL SUPERMAN CARTOONS!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Fleischer studio was initially based in New York and was famous for its rambunctios, rough-and-ready presentation of characters like Betty Boop and Popeye.
The studio had just relocated to an enlarged modern facility in Florida.
In 1942 Paramount Studios acquired Fleischer Studios and gave it the new name of "Famous Studios." They produced the last 8 of the 17 shorts and continued the series until 1943.
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 lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other ...
The studio was also using Fleischer’s rotograph, to blend animated characters with live backgrounds on film 70 years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The studio was the first to introduce the practice of in-betweening, using junior artists to fill in between key frames drawn by the main animator to expedite the production of cartoons.
Fleischer’s Superman cartoons, with their art-deco design, beautiful drawing, film noir “cinematography” and artful use of shadows, lighting and color are still marvels of cartoon animation and, no offense to Christopher Reeve, still the best version of that character ever brought to film.
www.linesandcolors.com /2006/01/27/max-fleischer   (708 words)

  
 Back to Miami
An invitation to participate in the “Fleischer Studios Animate Miami” program at this year's Florida Moving Image Archive's Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival, brought me back to the city where I was born, enabling me to take a new look at the Fleischers' Miami experience and visit the company's historic studio buildings.
Three women who worked in the studio's ink and paint department showed up, along with the son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren of Joseph Fleischer (the studio's electrician) along with Myron Waldman's son and his wife.
This was the original main entrance to the studio.
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 MY LIFE AS A SPACESCAPES ARTIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Suddenly the man declared out of the blue we were near his 'studio.' As I look back now I think we walked out of 'up town' with all those gorgeous hotels and galleries and restaurants with food in the windows to down town with rows of shabby colorless buildings.
He asked me if I would like to see his studio and before I knew it, we were going up and up several flights of stairs.
His much described 'studio' was one room with some sunflower paintings and a few unused brushes in a jar.
www.spacescapes.com /memories.html   (9035 words)

  
 Fleischer Popeye Tribute
Popeye would continue to appear in his navy uniform for the rest of his theatrical cartoon career (Famous Studios shorts), and even in his first incarnation on TV (the 220 limited-animation King Features Syndicate cartoons).
The cartoon studio moved back to New York where it was renamed into Famous Studios, with new artists, including some former Fleischer animators, as newly-appointed head animators and cartoon directors.
Interestingly, that was the same year when the studio sold its "Popeye" cartoon library to TV stations, allowing a new generation, that of baby-boomers, to fall in love with the incredibly creative Fleischer and early Famous Studios cartoons of their fathers.
www.calmapro.com /popeye/history.php?section=the_end¤t=history   (786 words)

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