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1. This japanese artist was a second wave animator that studed western animation tecks and pioneered the use of cel animation in japan
Rene Laloux
Yasuji marata
Max fleischer
animal farm
2. 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
Stuart Blackton
Yasuji marata
Industrial
Peggy Charen
3. 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.
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Alice in wonderland
telecomics
John are bray
4. 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
Gene Deitch
Zagreb school
winsor mccay
Terry Gilliam
5. _____________ 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
Ray Harryhausen
UPA
Lotte reineger
Quay Brothers
6. Russian animator is known for establishing the art of stop-motion animation. his puppets - were made with wire and plaster
Ladislas Starewitch
Lotte reineger
Ray Harryhausen
tei wei
7. 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.
Rene Laloux
John are bray
Ralph Bakshi
Alice in wonderland
8. In '58 under ___________ and _______________ - toie doga began the modern japanese animation industryby producion one color feature per year
Ray Harryhausen
Flintstones
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
viking eggeling
9. Music all songs and merchandising tie ins propelled his fame
Ralph Bakshi
Ray Harryhausen
UPA
felix the cat
10. 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.
Zagreb school
John are bray
Hayao Miyazaki
Richard Williams
11. The expressionist german animator is knon for emplying her love for chinese shadowtheater. she used finely cut paper
Max fleischer
Lotte reineger
viking eggeling
Rene Laloux
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
Peggy Charen
winsor mccay
viking eggeling
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
13. 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
Flintstones
John are bray
Katsuhiro Otomo
Gene Deitch
14. 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.
Stuart Blackton
UPA
Gene Deitch
winsor mccay
15. 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
Bob Godfrey
John are bray
Ladislas Starewitch
Don Bluth
16. 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
John are bray
winsor mccay
Gene Deitch
Industrial
17. 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
Yasuji marata
Ladislas Starewitch
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Terry Gilliam
18. Swedish artist played an integral role in the enhancement of experimental animation. he pained abstact designs on to scrolls
viking eggeling
Ray Harryhausen
Flintstones
felix the cat
19. 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
Will Vinton
Quay Brothers
Zagreb school
20. _________ 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
Quay Brothers
viking eggeling
Flintstones
Terry Gilliam
21. 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
Gene Deitch
Richard Williams
Flintstones
22. 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
Zagreb school
animal farm
felix the cat
Hayao Miyazaki
23. He created humorous phases of funny faces using frame-frame animation drawn on a chalkboard
winsor mccay
Flintstones
Stuart Blackton
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
24. He created the rotoscope wich combined a film projector and easel for frame by frame tracking and animation reference
Jiri Trnka
Max fleischer
Flintstones
Will Vinton
25. ___________ is just as its title suggests; a series of comic-strip style drawings filmed sequentially - with an occasional animated effect
telecomics
tei wei
viking eggeling
Rene Laloux
26. ________'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
Will Vinton
Lotte reineger
Terry Gilliam
tei wei
27. He created the rotoscope wich combined a film projector and easel for frame by frame tracking and animation reference
Rene Laloux
Quay Brothers
Industrial
Max fleischer
28. 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
Industrial
Flintstones
felix the cat
29. Worked on the Warner Bros. stock characters
felix the cat
Ladislas Starewitch
Chuck Jones
Ralph Bakshi
30. 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
Chuck Jones
Zagreb school
Flintstones
Bob Godfrey
31. The expressionist german animator is knon for emplying her love for chinese shadowtheater. she used finely cut paper
Chuck Jones
Quay Brothers
Richard Williams
Lotte reineger
32. 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
Zagreb school
winsor mccay
Industrial
Hayao Miyazaki
33. 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
felix the cat
Joseph Babera and William Hannah
Will Vinton
Yasuji marata
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
Emile cohl
Dusan Vukotic
animal farm
Max fleischer
35. _________ 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
Flintstones
telecomics
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Will Vinton
36. The film - LA PLANET SAUVAGE - directed by __________________ was one of the first feature length animations dedicated to adults and science fiction
felix the cat
Rene Laloux
Jiri Trnka
Jiri Trnka
37. 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
Don Bluth
tei wei
winsor mccay
John are bray
38. 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.
Alice in wonderland
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
Chuck Jones
Ralph Bakshi
39. Worked on the Warner Bros. stock characters
Ralph Bakshi
Dusan Vukotic
Chuck Jones
Dusan Vukotic
40. 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.
Zagreb school
Ladislas Starewitch
UPA
Jiri Trnka
41. 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
Zagreb school
animal farm
Gene Deitch
42. Russian animator is known for establishing the art of stop-motion animation. his puppets - were made with wire and plaster
animal farm
Ladislas Starewitch
Lotte reineger
Bob Godfrey
43. _____________ 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
Katsuhiro Otomo
Quay Brothers
Yasuji marata
tei wei
44. ___________ is just as its title suggests; a series of comic-strip style drawings filmed sequentially - with an occasional animated effect
telecomics
Ray Harryhausen
Dusan Vukotic
winsor mccay
45. Swedish artist played an integral role in the enhancement of experimental animation. he pained abstact designs on to scrolls
winsor mccay
UPA
viking eggeling
Tarji Yabushita and Yasuji Mori
46. 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
Flintstones
Hayao Miyazaki
Richard Williams
47. 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.
Industrial
winsor mccay
Ralph Bakshi
Bob Godfrey
48. 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
Will Vinton
Ray Harryhausen
Bob Godfrey
felix the cat
49. 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
tei wei
Hayao Miyazaki
UPA
Dusan Vukotic
50. 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
Will Vinton
Ralph Bakshi
Yasuji marata
animal farm