Krantz arranged a meeting with Crumb, during which Bakshi presented the drawings he had created while learning the artist's distinctive style to prove that he could adapt Crumb's artwork to animation.

Artist Vaughn Bodé warned Bakshi against working with Crumb, describing him as " slick ".

Bakshi later agreed with Bodé's assessment, calling Crumb " one of the slickest hustlers you'll ever see in your life ".

Krantz sent Bakshi to San Francisco, where he stayed with Crumb and his wife, Dana, in an attempt to persuade Crumb to sign the contract.

A second animated film, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, was produced in 1974 without the involvement of either Bakshi or Crumb.

After meeting with Bakshi, Crumb loaned him one of his sketchbooks as a reference, but was unsure of the film's production and refused to sign the contract.

Crumb disliked how the film presented the sexual content and politics, denouncing Fritz's dialogue in the final sequences of the film, which includes a quote from The Beatles song " The End ", as " red-neck and fascistic " Following the film's release, The People's Comics published the story " Fritz the Cat ' Superstar '", in which Crumb satirized Bakshi and Krantz.

In 1974, Krantz produced the sequel The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, without any participation from Bakshi or Crumb.

Bodē was a friend of animator Ralph Bakshi, and warned him against working with Robert Crumb on the animated film adaptation of Crumb's strip Fritz the Cat.

Bakshi later pitched a film adaptation of Robert Crumb's comic strip Fritz the Cat, and Krantz sent Bakshi to San Francisco in an attempt to persuade Crumb to sign the contract.

Filmmakers Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson stated that the reason the characters were omitted from their films was because, in their view, he ( Bombadil ) does little to advance the story, and would make their films unnecessarily long.

Bakshi recalled, " All my friends were black, everyone we did business with was black, the school across the street was black.

Although the series ' first two seasons were successful, Bakshi wanted to leave Terrytoons to form his own company.

Unknown to Bakshi, Krantz and producer Al Guest were in the middle of a lawsuit.

Despite receiving financing from other sources, including Saul Zaentz ( who agreed to distribute the soundtrack album on his Fantasy Records label ), the budget was tight enough to exclude pencil tests, so Bakshi had to test the animation by flipping an animator's drawings in his hand before they were inked and painted.

When a cameraman realized that the cels for the desert scenes were not wide enough and revealed the transparency, Bakshi painted a cactus to cover the mistake.

After its distribution was contracted to the Bryanston Distributing Company, Paramount canceled a project that Bakshi and Ruddy were developing, The American Chronicles.

Initial reviews were negative ; Playboy commented that " Bakshi seems to throw in a little of everything and he can't quite pull it together.

Bakshi and Frazetta were heavily involved in the production of the live-action sequences, from casting sessions to the final shoot.

United Artists and Paramount Pictures each paid Bakshi to develop the film in the 1970s, but were unwilling to produce it, as were the studios he pitched the film to in the 1980s.

Bakshi has also stated that " we were trying something different [...] but a series didn't make sense.

The film's animators were never given a screenplay, and were instead told by Bakshi, " Do a scene that's funny, whatever you want to do!

Both were heavily edited after Bakshi turned them in and he disowned them as a result.

A number of memorable animated videos were produced during the heyday of MTV, including " Take on Me " by a-ha ; " Sledgehammer " by Peter Gabriel ; " Money for Nothing " by Dire Straits ; and " The Harlem Shuffle " by The Rolling Stones ( the animated sequences in this video were directed by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi ).

Ralph Bakshi maintained that neither he nor Kricfalusi had the character sniffing cocaine, and that the character was sniffing the crushed petals of a flower, which were handed to him in a previous scene in the cartoon.

As the sets were being built in Las Vegas, producer Frank Mancuso, Jr., son of Paramount president Frank Mancuso, Sr., had the screenplay rewritten in secret, and gave Bakshi a new screenplay by screenwriters Michael Grais and Mark Victor that " was barely the same ".

The animation was strongly influenced by Fleischer Studios ( whose cartoons were released by Paramount ) and Terrytoons ( where Bakshi once worked, and whose Mighty Mouse character was also adapted into a series by Bakshi ).

The film's animators were never given a screenplay, and were instead told by Bakshi to " Do a scene that's funny, whatever you want to do!

Seasons 2 and 3 were crafted by producer Ralph Bakshi in New York City. In Canada, it is currently airing on Teletoon Retro.

Artist Alex Niño signed a contract with Bakshi to work on the film, and was granted a work visa, but was unable to gain permission from the Philippine government in order to leave for the United States until two months afterward, and later found that by the time he had arrived in the U. S., not only had the film's animation had been completed, but Niño's visa did not allow him to submit freelance work on any other projects.

Bakshi was unable to complete the battle sequences with the budget Fox had given him.

Bakshi recounts that during the first day of shooting, the actors were unable to play their roles naturally, but began casually talking and acting the way he wanted their characters to act when the cameras were off, including flirting with an actress.

Failing to reach a settlement with Guest, Krantz told Bakshi to grab the series ' model sheets and return to the United States.

Failing to reach a settlement with Guest, Krantz told Bakshi to grab the series ' model sheets and return to the United States.

At the age of 15, after discovering Gene Byrnes ' Complete Guide to Cartooning at the public library, Bakshi took up cartooning to document his experiences and create fantasy-influenced artwork.

Two weeks after Bakshi returned to New York, Krantz entered his office and told Bakshi that he had acquired the film rights through Dana, who had Crumb's power of attorney and signed the contract.

Ralph Bakshi, director of ground-breaking animated films like Fritz the Cat and the original Lord of the Rings film, returned to animation after taking a short break in the mid-1980s.

After the departure of Bakshi after 1966, the studio petered out and finally closed in 1968.

Anand Bakshi won his third Filmfare Best Lyricist award after 14 years.

Bakshi shakes Divot's hand, and Divot then shakes hands with other guests, passing around the fishy odor, even back to Bakshi after he has washed his hand.

The HRA was formed by Bismil, Chatterji, Sachindra Nath Sanyal and Shachindra Nath Bakshi in 1924 just after two year of the Non co-operation movement.

While an article about the series in Amazing Heroes # 129 made it appear like Bakshi was the director of the show, Kricfalusi clarified that Bakshi was the producer, and that Bakshi's creative involvement was the highest during the first several weeks of the production, after which he stood out of the way and let the team go about its business.

A week after Bakshi and his crew left, the prison was burned during a riot.