Gerald McBoing-Boing - Gerald McBoing-Boing Gerald McBoing-Boing is a 1951 animated short film about a little boy who can only speak in sound effects. It was adapted by Phil Eastman and Bill Scott from a story by Dr. Seuss. It was directed by Robert Cannon and produced by John Hubley. This film was the first successful theatrical cartoon produced by the UPA animation studio, after their initial experiments with a short series of cartoons called The Fox and the Crow. It was meant to be an artistic attempt to break away from the ultra-realism in animation that had been developed and perfected by Walt Disney. While Disney's animation methods produced lush and awe-inspiring images, it was felt that realism in the medium of animation was a limiting factor. Cartoons.
Hollywood Animation: The Golden Age - and propaganda. The major Hollywood studios contributed greatly to the war effort, and their cartoon studios pitched in as well with various contributions;. Over at the Fleischer studios, Popeye the Sailor joined the Navy and began fighting Nazis and "japs;" while the Warner Bros. studio produced a series of Private Snafu cartoons especially for viewing by enlisted soldiers. The war was the second of two major blows to shake Walt Disney's empire...but while Disney lagged, it didn't fall. Disney contributed heartily to the war effort with a famous propaganda film entitled Victory Through Air Power, though his further feature films of the 1940s were modestly-budgeted collections of animated short films, with titles such as Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Three Caballeros. The Warner Bros. studio,.
United Productions of America - the Red Scare, but the government contracts were quickly cancelled as Washington severed its ties with Hollywood. UPA moved to the crowded field of theatrical cartoons to sustain itself, and quickly won a contract with Columbia Pictures to try to breathe life into their moribund cartoon studio. Columbia's Screen Gems cartoons series had been uniformly unexceptional since the heyday of Krazy Kat in the silent era. The UPA animators applied their ideas of animation to Columbia's theatrical cartoons, working with their series The Fox and the Crow, then scoring a hit with the cartoon The Ragtime Bear in 1949. This cartoon featured the first appearance of Mister Magoo. It was a box-office hit, and UPA's star quickly rose as the 1950s dawned. As one of the few "human" cartoon characters in.
Academy Award for Animated Short Film - Pictures, Walter Lantz Productions (Musical Miniatures) - Walter Lantz producer - Dick Lundy director - Laverne Harding, Lester Kline animators John Henry and the Inky-Poo - George Pal Productions, Paramount Pictures (Puppetoon) - George Pal director and cinematographer Squatter's Rights - Walt Disney Pictures (Mickey Mouse) - Walt Disney producer - Jack Hannah director - Hugh Fraser, Murray McClellan, Bob Carlson, Blaine Gibson animators Walky Talky Hawky - Warner Bros. (Merrie Melodies) - Edward Selzer producer - Robert McKimson director - Richard Bickenbach, Cal Dalton, Don Williams animators 1947 Tweetie Pie - Warner Bros. (Merrie Melodies) - Edward Selzer producer - Friz Freleng director - Ken Champin, Gerry Chiniquy, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross animators Chip an' Dale - Walt Disney Pictures (Donald Duck, Chip 'n Dale) - Walt Disney producer -.
Private Snafu - GIs, and plenty of scantily clad women. The depictions of Japanese and Germans are quite racist by today's standards, but were par for the course in wartime U.S. The Snafu shorts are notable because they were produced during the Golden Age of Warner Bros. animation. Directors such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Frank Tashlin worked on them, and their characteristic styles are in top form. P.D. (Philip Dey) Eastman was a writer and storyboard artist for the Snafu shorts. Eastman would later go on to write such beloved children's books as "Are You My Mother" and "Go, Dog, Go!" and to contribute to both the "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and "Mister Magoo" animated series. Voice characterizations were provided by the celebrated Mel Blanc. Towards the end of the war, other.
List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry - 2002) Evidence of the Film (1913) (inducted 2001) The Exploits of Elaine (1914) (inducted 1994) The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (inducted 2000) Fantasia (1940) (inducted 1990) Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915) (inducted 1995) Film Portrait (1970) (inducted 2003) Five Easy Pieces (1970) (inducted 2000) Flash Gordon Serial (1936) (inducted 1996) Footlight Parade (1933) (inducted 1992) Force of Evil (1948) (inducted 1994) The Forgotten Frontier (1931) (inducted 1996) 42nd Street (1933) (inducted 1998) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) (inducted 1995) Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band (1928) (inducted 2003) Frank Film (1973) (inducted 1996) Frankenstein (1931) (inducted 1991) Freaks (1932) (inducted 1994) The Freshman (1925) (inducted 1990) From Here to Eternity (1953) (inducted 2002) From the Manger To the Cross (1912) (inducted 1998) From Stump to Ship (1930).
Limited animation - much as 30 frames per second), cartoons produced through limited animation may have as few as 12 frames per second. The reduced number of frames causes the halting, "jerky" motion seen in lower budgeted TV cartoons, as opposed to the smoother flow of animation seen in most feature films and high-quality TV animation. Limited animation was originally founded as an artistic device, though it was soon used widely as a cost-cutting measure rather than an aesthetic method. The UPA studio made the first serious effort to abandon the ultra-realistic approach perfected by Disney. Their first effort at non-realistic animation, Gerald McBoing Boing, won an Oscar, and it provided the impetus for limited animation to be accepted at the major Hollywood cartoon studios, including Warner Brothers and MGM. However, the real attraction.
List of movies: E-I - the House of Usher Falling Down Fantasia A Farewell to Arms Fargo Fast, Cheap and Out of Control Fatty's Tintype Tangle Fearless Fight Club Final Fantasy The Spirits Within Fire Down Below Five Easy Pieces Flåklypa Grand Prix Flashdance Flash Gordon Serial Die Fledermaus Flipper Flirting with Disaster Foolproof Footlight Parade Force of Evil Forever My Love The Forgotten Frontier Forrest Gump The Fountainhead The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Four Weddings and a Funeral Frank Film Frankenstein Freaks French Kiss The Freshman From Here to Eternity From the Manger To the Cross The Front Page Fucking Åmål The Fugitive Fury G Gallipoli The Game Gattaca The General Gerald McBoing-Boing Gerry (2002) Gertie the Dinosaur Get Carter Gigi The Girlfriend From Hell Gladiator Glimmer Man The Godfather The Godfather, Part II.
Gerald Schroeder - Gerald Schroeder Dr. Gerald Schroeder is a former professor of nuclear physics at MIT and member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He is the author of Genesis and the Big Bang (Bantam Books 1990, ISBN 0553354132), and The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom\ (1997, ISBN 076790303X). In his article "What Would Newton Do?", creationist Phillip E. Johnson summarizes Schroeder's article "The Age of the Universe": Schroeder starts by noting that the generations of humans starting with Adam adds up to 5757 years. The biblical "clock" for this purpose starts after the initial six days, a mysterious preliminary period which ancient commentators said contains "all the secrets and ages of the universe." Before Adam, and especially before the creation of the.
Gerald F. Hardacre - Gerald F. Hardacre Gerald F. Hardacre (19XX - September 11, 2001) was a retired environmental engineer, resident of Carlsbad California. He helped make San Diego a cleaner, better place to live, according to his brother Larry. He died at age 62 in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on board United Airlines flight 175. He was survived by his wife. Judith, daughters, Colleen and Kristen and brother Larry, and sister-in-law Gretchen. [Information on family, other information.] [He was a wonderful man who loved his family very much and had a heart of gold. He would have done anything for anyone and we know that he did whatever he could on this flight to help everyone on this plane and avoid what these monsters did. ] See.
Gerald Ford - Gerald Ford Gerald Ford Order: 38th President Term of Office: August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Predecessor: Richard Nixon Successor: Jimmy Carter Date of Birth: Monday, July 14, 1913 Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska First Lady: Elizabeth Warren ("Betty") Profession: lawyer Political Party: Republican Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born July 14, 1913) (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., renamed after adoption) was the fortieth (1973-1974) Vice President and the thirty-eighth (1974-1977) President of the United States. He remains the only President to serve without being elected to either the presidency or vice presidency. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Rise to the Presidency 2 Presidency 3 Supreme Court appointments 4 Related articles 5.
Gerald Gardner - Gerald Gardner Gerald Gardner (1884 - 1964) was a British civil servant, anthropologist, writer and occultist who published some of the definitive texts for modern Wicca and neopaganism. Beginning in 1908 he was a rubber planter, first in Borneo and then in Malaya. After 1923 he held civil service posts as a government inspector in Malaya. In 1936, at the age of 52, he retired to England. He published an authoritative text, Keris and other Malay Weapons (1936), based on his field research into southeast Asian weapons and magical practices. Apparently on medical advice, he took up naturism on his return to England, and also pursued his interest in the occult. Through the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship he claims to have met a family of traditional.
Gerald's Game - Gerald's Game Gerald's Game (1992) is a novel by Stephen King. The premise of Gerald's Game is that Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald have gone to their solitary cabin for a sex adventure. Once there, Gerald wants to fasten Jessie to the bed with handcuffs, which they have done before, but more and for a couple of days. With the aid of this somewhat odd start, King hopes for suspense to arrive by itself. The only thing that arrives is a stray dog that gnaws a bit on Gerald, and the disembodied voices of some of Jessie's old friends that start to discuss an event in her childhood. This internal dialog is mixed with descriptions of Jessie's more and more desperate attempts to get out.
Gerald Jay Sussman - Gerald Jay Sussman Gerald Jay Sussman is the Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the S.B. and the Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and 1973, respectively. He has been involved in artificial intelligence research at M.I.T. since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education. Sussman has also worked in computer languages, in computer architecture and in VLSI design. Sussman is a coauthor (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of the introductory computer science textbook used at M.I.T. The textbook, Structure and Interpretation.
Gerald Bull - Gerald Bull Gerald Vincent Bull (born 1928 Ontario, died March 22, 1990 Brussels) was an engineer who many consider to have developed long range artillery beyond what anyone else has accomplished. He was a driven man, who moved from project to project always chasing his dream of launching a satellite using a huge artillery piece. To this end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for the Iraqi government, during which he was killed (purportedly by Israeli Mossad agents) outside his home in Brussels. CADRE Bull graduated from the Aerospace Engineering department of the University of Toronto in 1951 and took his first job at the Canadian Armament and Research Development Establishment (CARDE). In the post-war era CARDE was researching supersonic flight, and Bull suggested the use.
Gerald, Missouri - Gerald, Missouri Gerald is a city located in Franklin County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,171. Geography \nGerald is located at 38°24'1" North, 91°19'53" West (38.400397, -91.331279)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.7 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.71% is water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 1,171 people, 474 households, and 327 families residing in the city. The population density is 322.9/km² (835.0/mi²). There are 510 housing units at an average density of 140.7/km² (363.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.21% White, 0.09% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other.
Gerald Finzi - Gerald Finzi Gerald Raphael Finzi (July 14, 1901 - September 27, 1956) was an English composer. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Life 1.1 1901-1918: Childhood and youth 1.2 1918-1933: Studies and early compositions 1.3 1933-1939: Development of mature style 1.4 1939-1956: Growth of reputation 2 Works 3 Conclusion 4.
Geraldo Rivera - high-profile stories and a style that has often been accused of sensationalism. He was born Gerald Miguel Riviera in New York City. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1969, and was lawyer for the New York Puerto Rican group the Young Lords. He was interviewed when they occupied an East Harlem church in 1970, attracting the attention of a news producer. He was hired by New York City station WABC-TV for their local news program. In 1972 he garnered national attention with his story of the abuse of mentally retarded patients at New York's Willowbrook School, and began to appear on ABC national programs such as Good Morning America and 20/20. In 1985 ABC's Roone Arledge refused to air a report done by Rivera on the relationship between Marilyn Monroe.
Gerald Kaufman - Gerald Kaufman Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born June 21, 1930) is a British Labour MP who was a government minister during the 1970s. He is now Chairman of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee. He is known as a moderate, and a supporter of Tony Blair's reforms. He famously called the Labour Party's left-wing 1983 election manifesto "the longest suicide note in history". Born in Leeds and educated at the University of Oxford (Queen's College), he became a Fabian Society staffer and a political journalist on the Daily Mirror and the New Statesman. He was a member of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's informal "kitchen cabinet". In 1965 he became a Labour Party press officer. He was elected MP for Ardwick in Manchester in.
Gerald Durrell - Gerald Durrell Gerald Durrell (known as Gerry to friends and family; January 7 1925 - January 30 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter, best known for founding the Jersey Zoological Park on the English Channel island of Jersey in 1958, and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting expeditions. He was born in Jameshedpur, India of British parents who returned to the UK after the death of his father in 1928, but moved to mainland Europe in 1933 so he became used to travelling at an early age. His family eventually settled on the Greek island of Corfu, where he began to collect (and keep as pets) the local fauna. The family left Corfu in 1939 In 1945, he joined.
