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1. _________ TV's first prime time animated series - was written with more sophistication that the likes of huckleberry hound or yogi bear - and it appealed equally to adults and children
Rene Laloux
Gene Deitch
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Flintstones
2. One of the creative obstacles associated with __________ was the fact that the films would eventually be shown on television - so the main action had to occur in the middle of the screen
Terry Gilliam
Alice in wonderland
cinemascope
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
3. During the 1970's and 80's _____________________ almost single-handedly revitalized stop-motion animationwith his trademarded claymation shorts and helped establish the viability of regional animaion in the US
Alice in wonderland
Will Vinton
Bob Godfrey
Richard Williams
4. After publicly quitting Disney Studios - ____________________ created the critically acclaimed film THE SECRET OF NIMH - which received the almost-forgotten art of pre-war disney animation
Industrial
Emile cohl
Don Bluth
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
5. With the depression and wartime rationing over - many new american goods and services were for sale - the most dynamic medium for selling them was the __________ film
animal farm
Industrial
Will Vinton
Don Bluth
6. The film - LA PLANET SAUVAGE - directed by __________________ was one of the first feature length animations dedicated to adults and science fiction
telecomics
Rene Laloux
Ladislas Starewitch
Jiri Trnka
7. _______________ was the Czech master of Stop-motion puppet animation. his talent lay in creating the illusion that the puppets were acting out of their own will rahter that being controled by a puppeteer
telecomics
Richard Williams
Jiri Trnka
tei wei
8. The idea of a feature cartoon that dealt with such seious subject as anti-communisms and contained little or no laughs was a challenge to the Halas and Batchelor team - but the proceeded and started production on __________________ in '51
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
animal farm
Emile cohl
Katsuhiro Otomo
9. One of the pioneering distinctions of _________________ was the interchangability of the artists working on direction - design - drawing - and story. the most talented artists all worked on eachothers films and the result was bold cartoons unified in
Hayao Miyazaki
cinemascope
winsor mccay
Zagreb school
10. In the early '50's the style of _________a departure from the traditional realistic design approach was so ingluential that nearly all the other studios went in that direction.
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Zagreb school
UPA
cinemascope
11. He created the rotoscope wich combined a film projector and easel for frame by frame tracking and animation reference
Max fleischer
Chuck Jones
Rene Laloux
Don Bluth
12. Action for Children's Television (ACT) grew out of the suburban Boston living room of the housewife and mother _____________ - who used her organization to lobby washington to impose new rules on kids' programming on cartoons
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Peggy Charen
Jiri Trnka
Stuart Blackton
13. He created humorous phases of funny faces using frame-frame animation drawn on a chalkboard
Will Vinton
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Katsuhiro Otomo
Stuart Blackton
14. In '58 under ___________ and _______________ - toie doga began the modern japanese animation industryby producion one color feature per year
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
cinemascope
Quay Brothers
Terry Gilliam
15. Action for Children's Television (ACT) grew out of the suburban Boston living room of the housewife and mother _____________ - who used her organization to lobby washington to impose new rules on kids' programming on cartoons
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Peggy Charen
viking eggeling
Rene Laloux
16. _________ TV's first prime time animated series - was written with more sophistication that the likes of huckleberry hound or yogi bear - and it appealed equally to adults and children
Emile cohl
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Bob Godfrey
Flintstones
17. This japanese artist was a second wave animator that studed western animation tecks and pioneered the use of cel animation in japan
viking eggeling
Alice in wonderland
Yasuji marata
Peggy Charen
18. This japanese artist was a second wave animator that studed western animation tecks and pioneered the use of cel animation in japan
Zagreb school
cinemascope
Yasuji marata
Lotte reineger
19. Because it offered almost no depth of character or story - neither the press nor the movie goers gave ___________ a warm welcome - and even it s animators seemed eager to disown it.
cinemascope
Don Bluth
Alice in wonderland
Ladislas Starewitch
20. In '62 'ersatz' or 'substitute' in english became the first film from outside the US to win an academy award for best animated short. directed by _____________ it tells the story of a tourist on a beach who 'inflates' an entire village
Dusan Vukotic
Max fleischer
Gene Deitch
Zagreb school
21. He created humorous phases of funny faces using frame-frame animation drawn on a chalkboard
Richard Williams
Stuart Blackton
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Zagreb school
22. This animation pioneer got his start designing postes and comic strips and one of this first films LITTLE NEMO - was based on a comic star
winsor mccay
Max fleischer
Dusan Vukotic
Jiri Trnka
23. A disillusioned disney animator - ______________ supplemented the cost of 'little island' by working on commercials for dog food - Guinness - and the mothers pride sliced bread during the day and his won project by night
John are bray
Richard Williams
Industrial
Rene Laloux
24. Music all songs and merchandising tie ins propelled his fame
felix the cat
Will Vinton
Jiri Trnka
Max fleischer
25. After 'why crows are black' was mistakedn at the '55 venice festival for soviet animation - ________ was determined that chinese animation shoult have a distinctive chinese look
Ralph Bakshi
tei wei
Don Bluth
Industrial
26. _____________ have always claimed that they 'want to make a world that is seen through a dirty pane of glass.' they make puppets that look like old dolls abused by many generations of children - construct the sets - arrange the lighting - and do the
Hayao Miyazaki
Quay Brothers
John are bray
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
27. _______________ was the Czech master of Stop-motion puppet animation. his talent lay in creating the illusion that the puppets were acting out of their own will rahter that being controled by a puppeteer
Quay Brothers
cinemascope
Flintstones
Jiri Trnka
28. His film fantasmagorie - often thought to be the first animated film with drawings on paper - was made with thick black lines
Hayao Miyazaki
viking eggeling
Emile cohl
Terry Gilliam
29. Russian animator is known for establishing the art of stop-motion animation. his puppets - were made with wire and plaster
Gene Deitch
Lotte reineger
Ladislas Starewitch
viking eggeling
30. ________'s work is full of bizarre kafka-esque fantasies - such as a man-eating baby carriage - elephantine chickens descending from above and squashing and unsuspecting onlooker - flying houses - and an unhealthy obsession with dismembered feet
Terry Gilliam
telecomics
Ray Harryhausen
Max fleischer
31. In '58 under ___________ and _______________ - toie doga began the modern japanese animation industryby producion one color feature per year
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
viking eggeling
Quay Brothers
32. By 1958. CBS terrytoons was out UPA-ing UPA!__________ picked up the ball and kept running - fulfilling the promise of UPA by producing contemporary cartoons that reflicted modern life using modern art
Gene Deitch
Stuart Blackton
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Don Bluth
33. AKIRA began life ans a best selling manga series in Japan -. when first financial interests wanted to turn it into a feature film ________________ refused to sell the rights unless he had total artistic control as director
Jiri Trnka
cinemascope
Dusan Vukotic
Katsuhiro Otomo
34. The idea of a feature cartoon that dealt with such seious subject as anti-communisms and contained little or no laughs was a challenge to the Halas and Batchelor team - but the proceeded and started production on __________________ in '51
Flintstones
animal farm
winsor mccay
Gene Deitch
35. Nothing prepared __________ and _________ for the shock of going from $50000 they typically spent on once short at MGM to $2700 they had to switch to
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Industrial
Ladislas Starewitch
36. _____________ have always claimed that they 'want to make a world that is seen through a dirty pane of glass.' they make puppets that look like old dolls abused by many generations of children - construct the sets - arrange the lighting - and do the
Terry Gilliam
animal farm
Industrial
Quay Brothers
37. This animation pioneer got his start designing postes and comic strips and one of this first films LITTLE NEMO - was based on a comic star
animal farm
Alice in wonderland
Zagreb school
winsor mccay
38. During the 1970's and 80's _____________________ almost single-handedly revitalized stop-motion animationwith his trademarded claymation shorts and helped establish the viability of regional animaion in the US
Lotte reineger
Will Vinton
Ladislas Starewitch
Katsuhiro Otomo
39. One of the creative obstacles associated with __________ was the fact that the films would eventually be shown on television - so the main action had to occur in the middle of the screen
cinemascope
viking eggeling
Ralph Bakshi
winsor mccay
40. Nothing prepared __________ and _________ for the shock of going from $50000 they typically spent on once short at MGM to $2700 they had to switch to
felix the cat
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Dusan Vukotic
41. Worked on the Warner Bros. stock characters
Chuck Jones
Jiri Trnka
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam
42. This animator devised a streamlined method of printing backgrounds - and then employed celluloid overlays containing the background elements as an imporvenment over the printing method.
winsor mccay
John are bray
cinemascope
Industrial
43. His film fantasmagorie - often thought to be the first animated film with drawings on paper - was made with thick black lines
cinemascope
Max fleischer
Emile cohl
telecomics
44. Russian animator is known for establishing the art of stop-motion animation. his puppets - were made with wire and plaster
Ladislas Starewitch
Stuart Blackton
Don Bluth
Ralph Bakshi
45. Worked on the Warner Bros. stock characters
Hayao Miyazaki
cinemascope
Chuck Jones
tei wei
46. The films of ______________________ were not commercially succesful in Japan until he reluctantly allowed his characters to be merchandised. after selling the rights - his films became some of the top-grossing films in japan
animal farm
Will Vinton
Hayao Miyazaki
winsor mccay
47. After publicly quitting Disney Studios - ____________________ created the critically acclaimed film THE SECRET OF NIMH - which received the almost-forgotten art of pre-war disney animation
Ralph Bakshi
Max fleischer
cinemascope
Don Bluth
48. In the early '50's the style of _________a departure from the traditional realistic design approach was so ingluential that nearly all the other studios went in that direction.
UPA
Rene Laloux
Industrial
cinemascope
49. One of the pioneering distinctions of _________________ was the interchangability of the artists working on direction - design - drawing - and story. the most talented artists all worked on eachothers films and the result was bold cartoons unified in
Alice in wonderland
Zagreb school
Alice in wonderland
Dusan Vukotic
50. The film - LA PLANET SAUVAGE - directed by __________________ was one of the first feature length animations dedicated to adults and science fiction
Rene Laloux
Ladislas Starewitch
Lotte reineger
John are bray