Max Fleischer

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  1. 3. This is the word used for the numerous animation assistants who drew the fine details of movements between key frames, so that the lead animators could focus on the larger movements.
  2. 6. With the Fleischer studio's ever increasing success came ever increasing workloads on the part of its workers which eventually led to one of these in 1935.
  3. 9. In December of 1941, Fleischer Studio pinned its financial hopes on their second feature length animated film, Mr. Bug Goes to Town. Unfortunately, the Japanese attack on this Hawaiian port on December 7th severely depressed ticket sales.
  4. 10. In order to give _____ to his cartoons, Fleischer patented a process in which physical sets were constructed and used as backgrounds. He called this "Stereoptical Process."
  5. 13. Unoriginally unnamed, Fleischer's clown was later given this name which sometimes bore a hyphen.
  6. 15. Paramount eventually sold the Fleischer Studios library to television companies who aired the shorts in the 1950s. The companies failed to renew the cartoons' copyrights in the 1960s, and thus, most of Fleischer's work is now considered to be in this.
  7. 18. One of Fleischer’s earliest inventions was this piece of projection equipment that allowed animators to trace over frames of motion picture film in order to create more realistic animations.
  8. 20. Fleischer continued to work in animation for others for the rest of his career. During WWII, he helped produce animated _______ films for the Army and Navy.
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  1. 1. In 1932, Fleischer secured the cartoons rights for this now famous sailor with a pipe and a penchant for spinach.
  2. 2. Born in Krakow, in what was then Austria -Hungary, Max Fleischer and his family immigrated to America and set up residence in this bustling metropolis.
  3. 4. After Disney's success with the first feature length animated film, Snow White, in 1938, Fleischer studios produced the world’s second feature length animated film, ________'s Travels.
  4. 5. One of Fleischer's most famous creations was this curvaceous cutie with a heart-shaped face and bobbed hair.
  5. 7. In the early days of color film, Fleischer was limited to using the two tone Cinecolor process because this more famous color process was still under an exclusivity deal with Disney.
  6. 8. "Out of the _______" was Fleischer's first commercial series of cartoons based around his clown character. It was also the name of Fleischer's first independent studio.
  7. 11. Upon Max Fleischer's death on September 25, 1972, the papers declared him the "____ of animated cartoons" a title usually conferred on leaders of a college or university.
  8. 12. Saddened by the loss of his studio, Fleischer would later write a semi-autobiographical book placing himself in the shoes of this biblical ark builder as he watches his creation sail away without him.
  9. 14. Max Fleischer was forced to resign from his own studio, due to insurmountable debts with his distributor Paramount Pictures. Paramount installed a new head for the studio and renamed it to ______ Studios.
  10. 16. Fleischer invented the method of aiding audience members in singing songs presented on screen by instructing them to "Follow the bouncing ____!"
  11. 17. Despite the commercial success of their first film, Fleischer studios began to experience financial difficulties. In 1940, Max over-leveraged the studio to get the rights to produce shorts starring this secret identity of Clark Kent.
  12. 19. After making peace with his workers, Fleischer decided to move his studio to this Florida town in hopes of lessening the impact of the animation union.