Bakshi responded, " All of these guys are heading into Canada to dodge the draft and I'm running back into the States.

According to Bakshi, " My background was in Brooklyn — my Jewishness, my family life, my father coming from Russia.

The racial segregation of local schools meant that the nearest white school was several miles away ; Bakshi obtained his mother's permission to attend the nearby black school with his friends.

Because Bakshi did not have a lawyer, he sought advice from directors he had become friends with, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, asking them how much they made on their films.

Because Bakshi felt that it was not fair for him to walk several miles every day to attend Greenleaf Elementary School while all of his friends attended segregated schools, he asked his mother if he could attend school with his friends in the fall, and she agreed.

Apparently some of their friends had read the script of the movie and in their belief it was detrimental to the image of blacks [...] The question-and-answer session with Bakshi that followed quickly collapsed into the chaos of a shouting match.

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.

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 ).

Bakshi and Crumb were unable reach an agreement after two weeks of negotiations but Krantz secured the film rights from Crumb's wife, Dana, who had a power of attorney.

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.

Fearing that segregated whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending a black school, the police dragged Bakshi from his classroom.

Suspecting that segregated whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending a black school, the police dragged Bakshi out of the classroom.

Bakshi hired several black animators to work on Harlem Nights, including graffiti artists, at a time when black animators were not widely employed by major animation studios.

According to Bakshi, the scene " is based on personal experiences of black men I knew who couldn't afford to feed their families, so they left because they couldn't stand to see them suffer.

" In a 2008 interview, Bakshi stated that " I called Sharpton a black middle-class fucking sell-out, and I ’ ll say it to his face.

Bakshi has stated, " The film was positive black in a huge way.

According to Bakshi, " The film was very popular with black audiences.

Bakshi has awkward interactions with everyone at the party, including Clutterbuck's dog Cookie.

Of the writing process, Bakshi stated " The way I worked was that everyone recorded the script.

According to Bakshi, " I thought that if we dropped all the detail, it would look very artistic, and very beautiful, and I felt, why bother animating all of this?

" According to Bakshi, " brought in some bruisers, and I could hear them asking, ' Should we beat him up or cool it?

Bakshi received a pay raise, but was not as satisfied with his career advancement as he had anticipated ; Rasinski had died in 1965, Bakshi did not have creative control over The Mighty Heroes, and he was unhappy with the quality of the animation, writing, timing and voice acting.

Although Bakshi did not have enough time to pitch the film, Gross agreed to fund its production and distribute it, believing that it would fit in with his grindhouse slate.

Bakshi did not have a lawyer, so he sought advice from fellow directors with whom he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.

This is an example of what Bakshi did best — using the medium of animation to comment on society.

Bakshi did not want to produce a broad cartoon version of the tale, so he planned to shoot the entire film in live action and animate the footage with rotoscoping.

He did not want to repeat the process that had been used on Wizards, which was unsuitable for the level of detail he intended for The Lord of the Rings, so Bakshi and camera technician Ted Bemiller created their own photographic enlarger to process the footage cheaply.

Bakshi was forced to pay the union wages out of his own fees, and the continuity between Kricfalusi's animation and the live-action footage did not match ; however, the video was completed on time.

When Sagansky left TriStar, Bakshi was forced to pitch the film again, but the studio's new executives did not understand its appeal and cut off financing.

However, Bakshi did not own the rights and did not know who did.

Bakshi did not initially view the footage ; he believed that Klein was overreacting, but agreed to let him cut the scene.

Bakshi said of the work, " It's the most proud I've been of a picture since Coonskin — the last real thing I did with total integrity.

Paramount threatened to sue Bakshi if he did not complete the film.

Bakshi later accidentally shoots Kelso with a toy gun, but Kelso does not see who did it.

" Bakshi also stated that he " had a lot of animators there that I'd brought in and I thought that maybe I could just have fun animating this stuff, which I did.

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.

However, Bakshi did not own the rights and did not know who did.

Bakshi did not initially view the footage ; he believed that Klein was overreacting, but agreed to let him cut the scene.

Arkoff threatened to withdraw his financial backing unless Krantz rehired Bakshi, which Krantz did a week later.