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1. 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.
tei wei
viking eggeling
telecomics
UPA
2. 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
Ralph Bakshi
Lotte reineger
Peggy Charen
Will Vinton
3. His film fantasmagorie - often thought to be the first animated film with drawings on paper - was made with thick black lines
cinemascope
Emile cohl
Ray Harryhausen
Industrial
4. 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
Quay Brothers
Alice in wonderland
Rene Laloux
5. Known for creating cartooon for both adult audiences and young children - _________ promoted 'roobabr and custard' the first animated TV series to be made in the UK that is remembered for its colorful use of magic markers
John are bray
Bob Godfrey
cinemascope
felix the cat
6. In 1972 - Brooklyn born animator __________________ directed the first X-rated animated feature - fritz the cat - which recieved much critical and commercial success - but his promise seemed increasingly to diminish as the decade wore on.
felix the cat
Ralph Bakshi
Alice in wonderland
Emile cohl
7. Known for creating cartooon for both adult audiences and young children - _________ promoted 'roobabr and custard' the first animated TV series to be made in the UK that is remembered for its colorful use of magic markers
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Don Bluth
Bob Godfrey
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
8. 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
tei wei
Ladislas Starewitch
Katsuhiro Otomo
9. _______________ 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
Jiri Trnka
Lotte reineger
UPA
10. Music all songs and merchandising tie ins propelled his fame
Terry Gilliam
Alice in wonderland
felix the cat
UPA
11. 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
Lotte reineger
Rene Laloux
Industrial
viking eggeling
12. 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
Quay Brothers
Terry Gilliam
felix the cat
13. He created the rotoscope wich combined a film projector and easel for frame by frame tracking and animation reference
Ladislas Starewitch
Stuart Blackton
Max fleischer
felix the cat
14. 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
Quay Brothers
Ralph Bakshi
Zagreb school
animal farm
15. This japanese artist was a second wave animator that studed western animation tecks and pioneered the use of cel animation in japan
Peggy Charen
Ladislas Starewitch
Terry Gilliam
Yasuji marata
16. 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
Max fleischer
Richard Williams
tei wei
Yasuji marata
17. ___________ is just as its title suggests; a series of comic-strip style drawings filmed sequentially - with an occasional animated effect
Rene Laloux
Quay Brothers
telecomics
Hayao Miyazaki
18. Russian animator is known for establishing the art of stop-motion animation. his puppets - were made with wire and plaster
Peggy Charen
Don Bluth
Chuck Jones
Ladislas Starewitch
19. 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
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
telecomics
Dusan Vukotic
Jiri Trnka
20. ________'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
Ray Harryhausen
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Terry Gilliam
Ralph Bakshi
21. 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.
John are bray
Lotte reineger
Peggy Charen
Alice in wonderland
22. 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
Gene Deitch
Terry Gilliam
Will Vinton
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
Chuck Jones
Richard Williams
John are bray
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
24. The film - LA PLANET SAUVAGE - directed by __________________ was one of the first feature length animations dedicated to adults and science fiction
Ray Harryhausen
Rene Laloux
Quay Brothers
Industrial
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
Alice in wonderland
tei wei
Will Vinton
Ralph Bakshi
26. ___________ is just as its title suggests; a series of comic-strip style drawings filmed sequentially - with an occasional animated effect
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
cinemascope
telecomics
Hayao Miyazaki
27. Swedish artist played an integral role in the enhancement of experimental animation. he pained abstact designs on to scrolls
viking eggeling
animal farm
Quay Brothers
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
28. 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
telecomics
Industrial
Zagreb school
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
29. His film fantasmagorie - often thought to be the first animated film with drawings on paper - was made with thick black lines
winsor mccay
Chuck Jones
Emile cohl
UPA
30. Worked on the Warner Bros. stock characters
John are bray
Chuck Jones
winsor mccay
cinemascope
31. 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
tei wei
Ladislas Starewitch
Jiri Trnka
John are bray
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
Jiri Trnka
Richard Williams
UPA
Gene Deitch
33. 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
Hayao Miyazaki
Ray Harryhausen
animal farm
felix the cat
34. 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
winsor mccay
telecomics
Yasuji marata
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
35. In '58 under ___________ and _______________ - toie doga began the modern japanese animation industryby producion one color feature per year
Zagreb school
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Stuart Blackton
Rene Laloux
36. 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
Hayao Miyazaki
UPA
winsor mccay
animal farm
37. 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
John are bray
Will Vinton
tei wei
Hayao Miyazaki
38. 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
Don Bluth
Lotte reineger
viking eggeling
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
39. 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
telecomics
Hayao Miyazaki
Terry Gilliam
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
40. 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.
Ladislas Starewitch
Chuck Jones
Alice in wonderland
Yasuji marata
41. Music all songs and merchandising tie ins propelled his fame
felix the cat
Zagreb school
Emile cohl
Terry Gilliam
42. ________'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
felix the cat
Terry Gilliam
tei wei
winsor mccay
43. _________ 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
Jiri Trnka
Flintstones
tei wei
Terry Gilliam
44. 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
Katsuhiro Otomo
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
viking eggeling
Alice in wonderland
45. While willis o'brian animated KING KONG appeared jerky and moved too fast on screen - _______________ created mighty joe young with more subtlety and slowed the animation down to convey a sense of scale.
Ray Harryhausen
Dusan Vukotic
Bob Godfrey
Hayao Miyazaki
46. The expressionist german animator is knon for emplying her love for chinese shadowtheater. she used finely cut paper
Emile cohl
Ladislas Starewitch
Bob Godfrey
Lotte reineger
47. In '58 under ___________ and _______________ - toie doga began the modern japanese animation industryby producion one color feature per year
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Hayao Miyazaki
Lotte reineger
felix the cat
48. Worked on the Warner Bros. stock characters
winsor mccay
Chuck Jones
UPA
Richard Williams
49. He created humorous phases of funny faces using frame-frame animation drawn on a chalkboard
tei wei
winsor mccay
Stuart Blackton
UPA
50. Russian animator is known for establishing the art of stop-motion animation. his puppets - were made with wire and plaster
Bob Godfrey
Ladislas Starewitch
felix the cat
Richard Williams