Max Fleischer
*focus more on invention technique than character
*cannot compete with Disney: audience like focus on character more
*Inkwell studio (New York-> Miami): urban surrealism
Fleischer's inbention
*rotoscope: a device used to trace live action into animation
*bouncing ball: a ball indicate to sing along with lyrics
*3-D scenery
Fleischer's Characters
*Ko-Ko the Clown
*Bimbo
*Betty Boop
->was introduced as Bimbo's girlfriend in "Dizzy Dishes(1930)"
->first appeared as a long-eared dog, later ears became rings
->voice modeled on Helen Kane
->censorship, Hays Production Code (1934)
*Popye
->voice by William Costello, later by Jack Mercer
->adapted from newspaper comic strip
1927 - Koko Earth Control (edited)
1926 - My Old Kentucky Home (excerpt)
1930 - Dizzy Dishes
* 1st Betty character appeared
1932 - Minnie the Moocher
* live action segment of Cab Calloway
1933 - Snow White
*Betty Boop
*Cab Calloway rotoscope action
*1st animated film base on the Grimm Brother's fairy tale (disney 1937)
1933 - Popeye the Sailor (edited)
* 1st Popeye appeared in Betty's cartoon
1936 - Popeye Meets Sinbad (edited)
*1st colored Popye
*multi-plane 3D background
*1st Popeye Technicolor catoon
*1st Fleischer cartoon to be nominated for an Academy Award
1941 - Superman (The Mad Scientist)
*100 thousand dollars, the highest at the time
*17 superman in total series
*after superman, Fleischer was in dept to Paramount, Inkwell Studio was taken over and changed into Famous studio
Walter Lantz
*took over Oswald the Lucky Rabbit(1928) and redesigned it
*created Woody Woodpecker
1929 - King of Jazz (the opening animated sequence
*1st ever Technicolor cartoon (2 strips)
*3 years before Flowers and Trees
*sound + color
1944 - Barber of Seville - Woody Woodpecker
*on 50 the Greatest list (12)
*same years as Bugs Bunny came out
Amadee Van Beuen
1932 - Piano Tooners - Tom and Jerry (not the cat and the mouse= = )
1935 - The Sunshine Market
Paul Terry
1948 - The Power of Thought - Heckle and Jeckle
*on 50 the Greatest list
