Fleischer's strategic plan was to first wipe out the German forces at Narvik and then transfer his division to Nordland to meet a German advance from Trøndelag.

Fleischer's use of black performers was bold at a time when depictions of blacks were often denigrating and stereotypical.

Even the jazz music on Fleischer's soundtracks was rawer, saucier, more fitting with the unflinching Fleischer look at America's multicultural scene.

In 1937, film production at Fleischer's studio was affected by a five month strike, which kept his cartoons off theater screens through the rest of the year.

On April 7, 2009, yet another release was made, this time a collection of all the cartoons released by Warner Home Video as the first authorized collection from the original masters, titled Max Fleischer's Superman: 1941-1942 with a suggested price at $ 26. 99 ; the set included one new special feature in the form of " The Man, The Myth, Superman " featurette, along with an old special feature seen in the Superman II 2006 DVD release entitled " First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series ".

Fox began his career in animation at Max Fleischer's studio, but left due to labor unrest.

Fleischer's younger brother Dave Fleischer was working as a clown at Coney Island, and served as the model for what was to become their first famous character that later evolved as " Koko the Clown.

The Norwegian counter-offensive against the Germans at Narvik was hampered by Fleischer's decision to retain significant forces in Eastern Finnmark to guard against a possible Soviet attack in the far north.

However, Fleischer's resignation was filed a month later than allowed by the terms of his contract, and he remained nominally employed by Paramount while his brother Max was forced out of the company at the end of December 1941.

Fleischer's distrust of the Soviet Union continued to show itself throughout the following Norwegian Campaign in 1940, when he kept substantial forces at the Soviet border in eastern Finnmark despite a desperate need of reinforcements at the front line at Narvik against Maj. Gen. Eduard Dietl's Gebirgsjäger forces.

Fleischer's strategic plan was to first wipe out the German forces at Narvik and then transfer his division to Nordland to meet a German advance from Trøndelag.

General Fleischer's gravestone at Vår Frelsers gravlund.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

He rode in at the head of sixty trigger-happy and liquor-crazed desperadoes and took over a livery barn at the entrance to Main Street.

All that time rifle barrels were pointing unwaveringly at his head and body.

Dr. Louis Lalaurie stood on the veranda at the head of the driveway and watched his carriage as it approached the pillared mansion.

Men continuously at the head of growing enterprises can acquire experiences of the most varied, complicated and trying type so that at maturation they have developed the competence and willingness to accept the personal responsibility so sorely needed now.

He looked disapprovingly at an ash tray piled high with cigarette stubs, shook his head, and moved his hand back and forth in a strong negative gesture.

And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

As head of the United Nations he was the symbol of world peace, and his tragic end came at a moment when peace hangs precariously.

The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster, and the rest of the body was buried under the gallows.

They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.

He slept in the hall bedroom at the head of the stairs.

Here, too, she talked low, quirking her head at one or another of the places, most often at Izaak's armchair which faced her across the long table.

Now Abel turned his head to look at his brother.

Pa had his head up, glaring, his teeth gnawing at the place where he'd grown a mustache once.

He don't care at all, and I don't care to get my head busted neither.

He had stood at a little distance, studying her, as though he would walk around next and look at the back of her head.

As far as plagiarism is concerned, McKimson cited that the animators would always be looking at each other's sheets to see if they could borrow some punchlines and cracks.

Technicians at the Fleischer studio invented rotoscoping, in which animators trace live-action in order to make animation look more realistic.

Development initiated with a creative team of companies and individuals: Jerry Sachs, ad man of Sachs-Finley Agency, brought together the animators at Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, headed by award-winning animator Fred Wolf.

However, while animation for a time suffered at Disney from Iwerks ' departure, it soon rebounded as Disney brought in talented new young animators.

While his fellow animators remained at Mintz's studio, Disney decided to quit his job and therefore leave the character he created.

By the next week, Kricfalusi had hired animators he knew who had been working at other studios.

This was a typical working desk for animators, layout artists, and background designers at Filmation in 1983.

Frank Tashlin and John Hubley, were Disney animators who left during the strike, and obtained jobs at Screen Gems, where Tashlin served as head producer while Hubley acted as director for studio.

As Sheridan's animation department continued to grow, it produced hundreds of animators into Canadian and international studios, at one point in 1996 being called " the Harvard of animation schools " on " a worldwide basis " by animator Michael Hirsh.

See some of your favourite characters, look back at animation through the ages and discover how animators bring drawings and objects to life.

Schlesinger was also known ( among his animators, at least ) for his lisp.

Schlesinger saw the Harman-Ising test film and signed the animators to produce cartoons at their studio for him to sell to Warner Bros. Bosko became the star vehicle for the studio's new Looney Tunes cartoon series.

In common with many animators at the time, Messmer was not credited.

When Disney later reneged on a deal he had made for two other Harman-Ising pictures, the animators sold the cartoons to Quimby at MGM.

Despite being one of the highest paid animators at Disney, Babbitt was sympathetic to the cause of lower echelon Disney artists seeking to form a union.

Art's former rivals, the pro-Walt animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, gave Art a warm and moving eulogy at his funeral service.

Former Disney animators such as Fred Moore and Ed Love began working at Lantz, and assisted Lundy in adding touches of the Disney style to Woody's cartoons.

In 1993, Lantz established a ten thousand dollar scholarship and prize for animators in his name at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.

Because the film performed poorly at the box office, Jeffrey Katzenberg later proclaimed that traditional animation was dead, as the American public seemed more interested in computer animation, which led to much controversy with directors and animators who worked with the traditional format.

" Sharon Bernstein of The Los Angeles Times wrote that " Gracie executives had been unhappy with the producer Csupo had assigned to The Simpsons and said the company also hoped to obtain better wages and working conditions for animators at Film Roman.

* Necromancer: Anita is one of the most powerful living animators in St Louis at the beginning of the series, with her powers eventually making her one of the strongest animators in history.

Many of the animators who had worked at Warner Bros. in the 1950s and 1960s returned to the old Warner studio working for DFE.

During the 1970s Spiegel supported herself by both teaching and soundtrack composition, having steady work at Spectra Films, Valkhn Films, the TV Lab and for various individual video artists, animators and film makers.

On 7 August 1972, Alexeieff and Parker were invited back to Canada in order to demonstrate the pinscreen to a group of animators at the National Film Board of Canada.