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Bakshi served as head of the studio for eight months before Paramount closed its animation division on December 1, 1967.
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Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by Jack Kerouac, jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, which was spoken by Harvey Keitel.
These stories served as the basis for a pair of film adaptations produced by Steve Krantz, Fritz the Cat 1972, directed by Ralph Bakshi, and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat 1974, directed by Robert Taylor.
Bakshi and head
* Daffy's head can be seen on a building two times in the 1992 Ralph Bakshi live action / animated film Cool World.
Bakshi arranged a meeting with Mike Medavoy, United Artists ' head of production, who agreed to let Bakshi direct in exchange for the $ 3 million that had been spent on Boorman's screenplay.
In April 1987, Bakshi set up a meeting with Judy Price, the head of CBS's Saturday morning block.
Bakshi moved into a warehouse loft in downtown Los Angeles to clear his head, and was offered $ 50, 000 to direct a half-hour live-action film for PBS's Imagining America anthology series.
The director fires Bakshi immediately and calls the studio head, General Fred Clutterbuck ( J. Edward McKinley ), about the mishap.
" Bakshi pitched Cool World to Paramount Pictures ( where Bakshi had worked as the final head of the studio's animation division ) as an animated horror film.
In April 1987, Bakshi set up a meeting with Judy Price, the head of CBS's Saturday morning block.
In 1973, production of Harlem Nights began, with Paramount Pictures ( where Bakshi once worked as the head of its cartoon studio ) originally attached to distribute the film.
Bakshi and studio
Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to director.
He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968.
When Bakshi was 18, his friend Cosmo Anzilotti was hired by the cartoon studio Terrytoons ; Anzilotti recommended Bakshi to the studio's production manager, Frank Schudde.
Bakshi was hired as a cel polisher and commuted four hours each day to the studio, based in suburban New Rochelle.
Bakshi met with Burt Hampft, a lawyer for the studio, and was hired to replace Culhane.
Bakshi enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to work at the studio.
Bakshi soon founded his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in the Garment District of Manhattan, where his mother used to work and which Bakshi described as " the worst neighborhood in the world ".
Bakshi was uninterested in the kind of animation the studio was turning out, and wanted to produce something personal.
Krantz told Bakshi that Hollywood studio executives would be unwilling to fund the film because of its content and Bakshi's lack of film experience.
Preparation began on a studio pitch that included a poster-sized cel featuring the comic's cast against a traced photo background — as Bakshi intended the film to appear.
After Bakshi pitched the project to every major Hollywood studio, Warner Bros. bought it and promised an $ 850, 000 budget.
In May 1971, Bakshi moved his studio to Los Angeles to hire additional animators.
After locking Bakshi out of the studio the next day, Krantz called several directors, including Chuck Jones, in search of a replacement.
As Bakshi and Mancuso wrangled over their creative differences, Bakshi and the studio also began to fight over the film's casting.
The character went through two later revivals, once by Filmation Studios in 1979, and again in 1987 at the hands of animation director Ralph Bakshi, who had worked at the Terrytoons studio during his early career.
In 1968, Ralph Bakshi, along with producer Steve Krantz, founded Bakshi Productions, establishing the studio as an alternative to mainstream animation by producing animation his own way and accelerating the advancement of female and minority animators.
However, Krantz told Bakshi that studio executives would be unwilling to fund the film because of its content and Bakshi's lack of film experience.
After the departure of Bakshi after 1966, the studio petered out and finally closed in 1968.
In the late 1960s, animator Ralph Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz founded Bakshi Productions, establishing the studio as an alternative to mainstream animation by producing animation his own way and accelerating the advancement of female and minority animators.
Bakshi and for
Billy Barty was the model for Bilbo, as well as Frodo and Sam, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping.
Billy Barty was the model for Sam, as well as Frodo and Bilbo, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping.
In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years before it was canceled due to complaints from a conservative political group over perceived drug references.
In 1966, Bill Weiss asked Bakshi to help him carry presentation boards to Manhattan for a meeting with CBS.
Bakshi Productions paid its employees higher salaries than other studios and expanded opportunities for female and minority animators.
In 1969, Ralph's Spot was founded as a division of Bakshi Productions to produce commercials for Coca-Cola and Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse, a series of educational shorts paid for by Encyclopædia Britannica.
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.
Inspiration for the film came from penny arcades, where Bakshi often played pinball, sometimes accompanied by his 12-year-old son, Mark.
Krantz had not compensated Bakshi for his work on Fritz the Cat, and halfway through the production of Heavy Traffic, Bakshi asked when he would be paid.
Bakshi financed the film's completion himself from the director's fees for other projects such as Wizards, The Lord of the Rings and American Pop.
Returning to the fantasy drawings he had created in high school for inspiration, Bakshi intended to prove that he could produce a " family picture " that had the same impact as his adult-oriented films.
The experiment worked, and Bakshi got the pages he needed for a penny per copy.
As War Wizards neared completion, Lucas requested that Bakshi change the title of his film to Wizards to avoid conflict with Star Wars ; Bakshi agreed because Lucas had allowed Mark Hamill to take time off from Star Wars to record a voice for Wizards.
Bakshi contacted Saul Zaentz, who wrote a check to cover MGM's debt and agreed to fund the $ 8 million budget for the first of what was initially planned as a series of three films, and later negotiated down to two.
During the middle of a large shoot, union bosses called for a lunch break, and Bakshi secretly shot footage of actors in Orc costumes moving toward the craft service table, and used the footage in the film.
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.
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