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	Harman and Ising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harman and Ising first worked in animation in the early 1920s at Walt Disney's studio in Kansas City.
		Even while still with Disney Harman and Ising had aspired to start their own studio, and had created and copyrighted the cartoon character Bosko in 1928.
		Ising created the character Barney Bear for MGM at this time, basing the sleepy-eyed character partially on himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_Harman (700 words)

	Wikipedia: Harman and Ising
		Hugh Harman (born 1908, died 1982) and Rudolf "Rudy" Ising (born 1903, died 1992) were animators best known for founding the Warner Bros and MGM animation studios.
		The sound cartoon impressed Leon Schlesinger, who paired Harman and Ising with Warner Bros.
		Harman and Ising are little known, even among animation fans.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/ha/harman_and_ising.html (574 words)

	Wikipedia: Bosko
		Harman designed the character (consciously modeling him after Felix the Cat) and, in 1929, starred him in a short film called "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid" that showcased their ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing.
		Through these early Looney Tunes, Harman and Ising would turn Bosko into a near duplicate of Walt Disney's creation, Mickey Mouse, who was then the most popular character in cartoons.
		Although Harman and Ising based Bosko's looks on Felix the Cat, Bosko, like Mickey, got his personality from the flface characters of the minstrel and vaudeville shows popular in the 1930s.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/b/bo/bosko.html (781 words)

	Foxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Animator Rudolf Ising created Foxy as the star of the new Merrie Melodies series he was directing for producer Leon Schlesinger (Ising had already helped his partner Hugh Harman create another series, entitled Looney Tunes).
		Foxy was the most unabashedly unoriginal of the various Mickey Mouse duplicates so prevalent in the 1930s, a fact that didn't escape the notice of Walt Disney.
		Ising retired the character after only three cartoons, possibly at Disney's request.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Foxy (347 words)

	Friz Freleng
		Freleng soon teamed up with Harman and Ising to try to create their own studio.
		The cartoon finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who soon secured Harman and Ising to star Bosko in the Looney Tunes series he was producing for Warner Bros. Freleng soon moved back to California to work with Harman and Ising once again.
		Harman and Ising left Schlesinger's studio over disputes about budgets in 1933.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Friz_Freleng.html (757 words)

	Bosko
		Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising were veterans of Walt Disney Studios, and they created Bosko to capitalize on the new "talkie" craze that was sweeping the motion picture industry.
		Harman designed the character (consciously modeling him after Felix the Cat) and, in 1929, starred him in a short film called "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid" that showcased his ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing.
		Keeping with the stereotypes of the minstrel shows, Bosko is a natural at singing, dancing, and playing any instrument he encounters.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/b/bo/bosko.html (835 words)

	MGM Before Tom and Jerry
		Hugh Harman (1903-1982), the brother of Fred H. Harman, the creator of Red Ryer, met Rudolf Ising, also born in 1903, while they were both working for the Kansas City Film Agency.
		Harman and Ising, together with Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney, shared in the venture into animated produced by Laugh-O-Gram Films.
		These cartoons by Harman and Ising, although remarkably accomplished, suffer from their length, which sometimes creates and impression of slow pacing.
	mango4.tripod.com /tomjerry/before.html (850 words)

	Walt Disney
		Walt was successful enough to be able to hire his old colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, who hadn't been so successful on their own but had improved in skills.
		As the distributor Universal held the rights to Oswald and they could make their own cartoons with him if they wanted to, Walt returned to his Studio in defeat and along with Ub Iwerks and the remaining employees he started working on a new project to replace Oswald as Disney's star.
		Thanks to Harman and Ising, now chief animators, the 25 shorts produced till mid-1929 were of the same quality as those produced by Walt's Studio.
	www.black-science.org /wikipedia/w/wa/walt_disney.html (2666 words)

	Rudolf Ising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harman, Ising, and a few other ex-Disney animators put together a pilot short, "Bosko the Talkink Kid", which was used by producer Leon Schlesinger to obtain a contract with Warner Brothers' studios to produce animated cartoons.
		Harman and Ising started the Loony Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons, and produced them for several years.
		Ising came out of retirement to produce and direct the animation for the "Tom and Jerry" TV series in 1965.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho9/ising_r.htm (310 words)

	Walt Disney
		Disney was successful enough to be able to hire his old colleagues Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, who hadn't been so successful on their own but had improved in skills.
		He had secretly met with a number of Disney's employees including Harman and Ising and had signed them on contracts of their own.
		Thanks to Harman and Ising, now chief animators, the 25 shorts produced till mid-1929 were of the same quality as those produced by Disney's Studio.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/w/wa/walt_disney.html (3018 words)

	DVD Review of Uncensored Bosko #1 - DVDtoons! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harmon and Ising were early associates of Walt Disney in his Kansas City days, and they continued with him on the Oswald and Alice series when Walt moved to California.
		Harman and Ising stayed on with the Oswald producers until Universal Studios in turn cut those producers out of the picture and set up their own studio with Walter Lantz.
		Harman and Ising, perhaps seeing how their fortunes had hinged on those of the producers, then decided to take a lesson from Disney and climb as close to the top rung of the ladder as they could.
	www.dvdtoons.com /reviews/152 (2114 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Good Wrinkles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising, founders of the original Warner Brothers and MGM animation units (in 1930 and 1934 respectively) and creators of Bosko, were out of the theatrical animation game by 1940.
		In 1941, Hugh Harman founded his own studio to produce commercial, health, safety, and training films, a couple of which are archived here ("Johnny Learns His Manners" and "The March of Progress").
		But Harman and Ising are let down by their just-as-typical inability to give their characters real personality.
	www.archive.org /movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=19304&from=mainReviews&PHPSESSID=f917fab3077e3cf3ff388db6161b9728 (435 words)

	Sample Chapter from "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons" -- The Founders
		Hanna's loyalty to Harman and Ising, the men he considered his teachers and benefactors, prompted him to decide to stay on with them.
		Harman and Ising set to work making new cartoons and non-series shorts, all under the blanket title "Happy Harmonies." One such short, To Spring, released in June of 1936, was the first directorial effort of Bill Hanna.
		By then, though, Freleng had abandoned MGM to return to Schlesinger and in a turnaround, the studio rehired Harman and Ising, who now found themselves in an environment frequently punctuated by rivalries between the West Coast artists and those from the East Coast.
	www.hlla.com /reference/hanna-chapter.html (1590 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Hanna and Barbera - Before the Comapny
		Ising encouraged Hanna to stay late with him, and soon he added story material and gags for early Looney Tunes and after a short bit even began writing music and lyrics for the cartoons.
		During his stay with Harman and Ising, Hanna learned much; great drawing ability, pacing and a grand sense of dynamics.
		Herman and Ising went back to work with MGM and about that time Freling returned to Warner Brother's until they closed in 1963.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A792452 (1562 words)

	The Early Looney Tune Cartoons 1929-1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harman and Ising used a pilot film (Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid) made in the Summer of 1929 to sell the idea of a cartoon series that would compete with Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies.
		In 1931 Harman and Ising began their Merrie Melodies series.
		Around August of 1933 Harman and Ising left the Warner Brothers cartoon department and went over to MGM to being a new series called Happy Harmonies.
	www.vitaphone.org /bosko.html (362 words)

	DVDtoons.com - Animation on DVD - Cartoons on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both Harman and Ising then returned in 1939 to bring some stability and expertise to the animation department, and both Hanna and Barbera soon found themselves sitting across from each other in Rudy Ising’s story department.
		The new Harman and Ising cartoons were similar to what they had delivered previously: often beautiful, technically proficient, and frequently bland.
		Rudy Ising was still proving to be a slow director, and the two story men found they had ample time to discuss new ideas.
	www.dvdtoons.com /features/51 (3657 words)

	JimHillMedia.com : Welcome! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising who were responsible for producing the very first “Looney Tune” cartoon had learned their craft working with Walt in Kansas City.
		Harman and Ising recommended to Walt a young animator they had worked with in Kansas City, Isadore “Friz” Freleng, who was promptly given a job at the Disney Studio.
		Officially Bob began his professional career as an animator on the very first “Merrie Melodie” made by Harman and Ising in 1931 for Warner Brothers, “Lady Play Your Mandolin." For a time, he was teamed with the legendary Tex Avery.
	www.jimhillmedia.com /mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1710 (1527 words)

	Biography for Hugh Harman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugh Harman was one of the pioneers of animation.
		When that company went bankrupt, Harman and partner Rudolf Ising tried to start a new series based on the Arabian Nights, but were unable to obtain funding.
		Harman, Ising, and a few other ex-Disney animators put together a pilot short, "Bosko the Talkink Kid", which was used by producer Leon Schlesinger to obtain a contract with Warner Brothers' studios to produce animated cartoons.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0363414/bio (341 words)

	GAC Forums - Fred Quimby
		Harman was the first to leave forming his own studio to make industrial films in the beginning in '41.
		Harman and Ising when independent were directors, and co-storymen as well as controlling all the producer's functions mentioned above, then when directly under MGM (and Quimby) they were forced to maintain some budgetary control.
		Thus was born the long-running tenure of Fred Quimby at MGM (and Eddie Selzer at Warners).
	forums.goldenagecartoons.com /archive/index.php/t-2616.html (5375 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: MGM Studios Cartoons
		Harman and Ising quickly succeeded in making MGM a major player in the cartoon market, and their reward was to be booted out.
		But the staff he put together (even Harman and Ising came back in 1939, and stayed a couple more years) eventually started putting out some pretty decent cartoons.
		The studio's first Oscar nominee, Harman's Peace on Earth, perhaps the first cartoon from a major studio with a completely serious theme, was released December 9 of that year; and its first winner (in fact the first non-Disney winner of all), Ising's The Milky Way, came out on June 22, 1940.
	www.toonopedia.com /mgm.htm (1031 words)

	Warner Bros. Animation Chronology
		Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, former animators for Walt Disney, sign with Leon Schlesinger, a manufacturer of silent film main title and dialogue cards.
		Harman and Ising begin hiring former Disney artists and animators, including Isadore "Friz" Freleng.
		Harman and Ising leave Leon Schlesinger Productions and begin producing cartoons for rival MGM.
	www.hlla.com /reference/wb.html (4659 words)

	Bob Clampett, Boy Wonder Of Stage C
		In 1930, when Clampett was just seventeen years old, Leon Schlesinger viewed one of Bob's 16mm films and was so impressed with the young man's work, he offered him an assistant position at Harman-Ising Studio.
		The team of Harman and Ising were creating Bosco theatrical cartoons directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising with Friz Freleng and others animating, and Schlesinger producing from the art and title company on Melrose Avenue where he held forth.
		The Bosco cartoons, short on plot, substance and artistic finesse, were distributed with Warner features and exhibited across the U.S. At Harman-Ising, Bob performed his assistantship with energy and enthusiasm.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue4.06/4.06pages/storyclampett/storyclampett3.php3 (694 words)

	Leon Schlesinger
		He then secured a contract with the studio to produce its brand-new Looney Tunes series, and he signed animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising to create these cartoons with their Bosko character as the star.
		When Harman and Ising left Warner Bros. with Bosko in 1934, Schlesinger set up his own studio on the Warner Bros. lot on Sunset Boulevard.
		He wooed animators away from other studios, including some of those who had departed with Harmon and Ising.
	www.wordlookup.net /le/leon-schlesinger.html (534 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Hugh Harman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Hugh Harman; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Hugh_Harman (812 words)

	..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site ::..
		In 1934, MGM decided that they had to get into the growing cartoon business but they weren't brave enough to create their own unit.
		Instead, they bought in cartoons from the Hugh Harman/Rudolf Ising company (the name of the company, Harman-Ising, was a deliberate pun).
		Scott Bradley worked for Harman-Ising, having previously been at Disney, alongside Carl Stalling who later went to Warner Brothers and worked on 600 of the famous Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
	www.tomandjerryonline.com /bradley.cfm (796 words)

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