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Max Fleischer, the Glossary

Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer; July 19, 1883 – September 25, 1972) was a Polish-American animator and studio owner.^[1]

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Animated Antics

Animated Antics is an animated cartoon series produced by the Fleischer Studios from 1940 through 1941, and distributed through Paramount Pictures.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Austrian Partition

The Austrian Partition (zabór austriacki) comprises the former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth acquired by the Habsburg monarchy during the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century.

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Bernard Wolf

Bernard "Berny" Wolf (July 18, 1911 - September 7, 2006) was an American animator and television producer. Max Fleischer and Bernard Wolf are Fleischer Studios people.

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Betty Boop

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Dave Fleischer.

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Bouncing ball (music)

The bouncing ball is a virtual device used in motion picture films and video recordings to visually indicate the rhythm of a song, helping audiences to sing along with live or prerecorded music.

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Bray Productions

Bray Productions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons during the years of World War I and the early interwar era, becoming a springboard for several key animators of the 20th century, including the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, Paul Terry, Shamus Culhane and Grim Natwick among others.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Eagle (originally joint name The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat, later The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before shortening title further to Brooklyn Eagle) was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955.

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Brownsville, Brooklyn

Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Color Classics

Color Classics are a series of animated short films produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941 as a competitor to Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Dave Fleischer

Dave Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American film director and producer who co-owned Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer are American animated film directors, American animated film producers, American people of Austrian-Jewish descent, American people of Polish-Jewish descent, American surrealist artists, film directors from New York City, film producers from New York (state), Fleischer Studios people, Fleischer family, Jewish American animators, Jewish film people and Popeye.

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Dąbrowa Tarnowska

Dąbrowa Tarnowska (Dombrov) is a town in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, about north of Tarnów.

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Dizzy Dishes

Dizzy Dishes is an animated cartoon created by Fleischer Studios in 1930, as part of the Talkartoon series.

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Finding His Voice

Finding His Voice (1929) is a short film created as an instructional film on how the Western Electric sound-on-film recording system worked.

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Fleischer Studios

Fleischer Studios was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Paramount Pictures, the parent company and the distributor of its films.

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Flowers and Trees

Flowers and Trees is a Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932.

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Fort Sill

Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.

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Gabby (film series)

Gabby is a short-lived Max Fleischer animated cartoon series distributed through Paramount Pictures.

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George Bridgman

George Brant Bridgman (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing.

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Great Depression in the United States

In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide.

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Grim Natwick

Myron "Grim" Natwick (Nordveig; August 16, 1890 – October 7, 1990) was an American artist, animator, and film director. Max Fleischer and Grim Natwick are American animated film directors and Fleischer Studios people.

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios.

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Hal Seeger

Harold Seeger (May 16, 1917 – March 13, 2005) was an American animated cartoon producer and director who owned his own studio, the Hal Seeger Studio (Hal Seeger Productions). Max Fleischer and Hal Seeger are American animated film directors, American animated film producers and Fleischer Studios people.

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Helen Kane

Helen Kane (born Helen Clare Schroeder, August 4, 1904 – September 26, 1966) was an American singer and actress.

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History of animation

While the history of animation began much earlier, this article is concerned with the development of the medium after the emergence of celluloid film in 1888, as produced for theatrical screenings, television and (non-interactive) home video.

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Hugo Riesenfeld

Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was an Austrian-American composer. Max Fleischer and Hugo Riesenfeld are American people of Austrian-Jewish descent and Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States.

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Jam Handy

Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy (March 6, 1886 – November 13, 1983) was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms (later known as filmstrips), trade shows, industrial theater and multimedia training aids. Max Fleischer and Jam Handy are Bray Productions people.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Randolph Bray

John Randolph Bray (August 25, 1879 – October 10, 1978) was an American animator, cartoonist, and film producer. Max Fleischer and John Randolph Bray are American animated film producers and Bray Productions people.

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Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe.

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Koko the Clown

Koko the Clown is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Larry Storch

Lawrence Samuel Storch (January 8, 1923 – July 8, 2022) was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr.

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Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, electrical engineer and an early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance.

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Lou Fleischer

Lou Fleischer (July 16, 1891 – November 16, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, and the brother of Max and Dave Fleischer. Max Fleischer and Lou Fleischer are American animators, American people of Austrian-Jewish descent, American people of Polish-Jewish descent, Fleischer Studios people, Fleischer family and Jewish American animators.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Mansfield News Journal

The Mansfield News Journal is an American daily newspaper based in Mansfield, Ohio.

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Maurice Horn

Maurice Horn (June 28, 1931 – December 30, 2022) was a French-American comics historian, author, and editor, considered to be one of the first serious academics to study comics.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

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Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations.

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Motion Picture & Television Fund

The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries and their families with limited or no resources, including services such as temporary financial assistance, case management, and residential living.

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Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr.

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Mutt and Jeff

Mutt and Jeff is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched tinhorns".

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My Old Kentucky Home (1926 film)

My Old Kentucky Home is a short animation film originally released in June 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes series.

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Out of the Inkwell

Out of the Inkwell is an American animated film series of the silent era.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Pathé Exchange

Pathé Exchange, commonly known as Pathé, was an American film production and distribution company, largely of Hollywood's silent era.

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Phonofilm

Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.

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Polish Scientific Publishers PWN

Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers PWN; until 1991 Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe - National Scientific Publishers PWN, PWN) is a Polish book publisher, founded in 1951, when it split from the Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne.

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Poor Cinderella

Poor Cinderella (original title as Betty Boop in Poor Cinderella) is a 1934 Fleischer Studios-animated short film featuring Betty Boop.

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Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.

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Popeye the Sailor (film)

Popeye the Sailor (titled onscreen as Popeye the Sailor with Betty Boop) is a 1933 animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Publix Corporation.

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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Specials series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 26, 1937 by Paramount Pictures.

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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a 1936 two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Specials series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27, 1936, by Paramount Pictures.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.

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Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American film studio corporation that originally operated from 1935 to 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.

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Richard Fleischer

Richard Owen Fleischer (December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American film director whose career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave. Max Fleischer and Richard Fleischer are American people of Austrian-Jewish descent, American people of Polish-Jewish descent and Fleischer family.

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Roland Crandall

Roland Dimon "Doc" Crandall (August 29, 1892 - August 14, 1972) was an American animator. Max Fleischer and Roland Crandall are Fleischer Studios people.

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Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948 film)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1948 animated short film produced and directed by Max Fleischer for Jam Handy based on the 1939 Robert L. May poem of the same name, about a flying reindeer who helps Santa Claus.

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Screen Songs

Screen Songs (formerly known as KoKo Song Car-Tunes) are a series of animated cartoons produced at the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938.

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Seymour Kneitel

Seymour Kneitel (March 16, 1908 – July 30, 1964) was an American animator, best known for his work with Fleischer Studios and its successor, Famous Studios. Max Fleischer and Seymour Kneitel are artists from New York City, Bray Productions people, Fleischer Studios people, Fleischer family, Jewish American animators and Popeye.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (rarely), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the media and entertainment industry.

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Somewhere in Dreamland

Somewhere in Dreamland is a 1936 animated short in Max Fleischer's Color Classics series.

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Song Car-Tunes

Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes, Song Car-Tunes, or (some sources erroneously say) Sound Car-Tunes, is a series of short three-minute animated films produced by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer between May 1924 and September 1927, pioneering the use of the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" device used to lead audiences in theater sing-alongs.

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Sound-on-film

Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying a picture is recorded on photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture.

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Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

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Stone Age Cartoons

Stone Age Cartoons is a 1940 American series of twelve animated short films from Fleischer Studios.

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Superman

Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Superman (1940s animated film series)

The Fleischer Superman cartoons are a series of seventeen animated superhero short films released in Technicolor by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman, making them his first animated appearance.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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Tailor

A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing.

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Talkartoons

Talkartoons is a series of 42 animated cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures from 1929 to 1932.

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The Sidewalks of New York

"The Sidewalks of New York" is a popular song about life in New York City during the 1890s.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Waldemar Kaempffert

Waldemar Bernhard Kaempffert (September 27, 1877 - November 27, 1956) was an American science writer and museum director.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. Max Fleischer and Walt Disney are American animated film directors, American animated film producers and American animators.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fleischer

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Bray Productions people

Fleischer family

Jewish American animators

Popeye

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