" ( John Grainger's abrupt series exit, due to Charles Bickford's sudden death on November 9, 1967, was never properly explained onscreen.

The Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company ( formerly The Ensign-Bickford Company ) was started in 1836 in Simsbury, Connecticut as a manufacturer of William Bickford's safety fuse for use in mining.

Even after Bruce Bickford's sequences won first prize at a French animated film competition, there was no interest.

In May 1950 he was traded to the Boston Braves, where he caught Vern Bickford's no-hitter on August 11 of that year.

Bickford's architect was F. Russell Stuckert, who had been associated with Samuel Bickford since 1917.

Bickford's son, Harold, was in charge of expanding their cafeteria chain into Florida and California.

Andy Warhol's assistant was out getting a coffee-to-go at Bickford's when Warhol was shot.

Comics artist Wally Wood was 21 years old when he worked as a Bickford's busboy shortly after his 1948 arrival in Manhattan.

* Bickford's Old Style Original Kola is produced by Bickford's Australia in Adelaide, South Australia.

Australian brands include Cottees, Bickford's, P & N Beverages and Golden Circle cordials.

: In 1932 the police blamed members of the glaziers union for vandalism against 24 Horn & Hardart and Bickford's restaurants in Manhattan, including the one at 488 Eighth Avenue.

A second South Australian soft drink and cordial manufacturer Bickford's markets a deep red colored creaming soda.

Bickford's animations depict surreal scenes based on his unique worldview.

Often outwardly seeming to be somewhat disconnected from the world around him, Bruce Bickford's work is extremely subjective in its content and concepts, making for some disturbing and shocking imagery.

Bickford's Restaurants and Cafeterias are a chain of eateries that have existed in various form since 1921.

Samuel Longley Bickford ( 1885 – 1959 ) began his restaurant career in 1902, and in 1921, he established his quick-lunch Bickford's restaurant chain.

In 1959, the company introduced the Bickford's Pancake House family restaurants.

In 1921, the Bickford's " lunchrooms ," as they were known, offered modestly priced fare and extended hours.

During the 1920s, the Bickford's chain expanded rapidly with 24 lunchrooms in the New York area and others around Boston.

: Breakfast at Bickford's is an old New York custom.

With Bickford's restaurants opening in New Jersey and Massachusetts, Sam Bickford and his son, Harold, worked over four decades to expand their cafeteria chain throughout the Northeast.

: In 1932 the police blamed members of the glaziers union for vandalism against 24 Horn & Hardart and Bickford's restaurants in Manhattan, including the one at 488 Eighth Avenue.

In 1959, Bickford's, Inc. had two geographical divisions: the North-East Coast Division and the South East Coast ( M & M Cafeterias, Inc ) and West Coast ( Foster's Lunch System, Ltd .) Division.

Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion.

Raimi's use of the Introvision process was a tribute to the stop-motion animation work of Ray Harryhausen.

Their graphics and animation are based directly on the original Bubble Bobble, only larger ( very similar to Bubble Symphony which was released less than a month later ).

Some of the earliest animation done using a digital computer was done at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the first half of the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll.

Early digital animation was also done at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

Upon the reopening of the Warner animation department, Jones was rehired and reunited with most of his unit.

Jones ' former animation unit was laid off after completing the final cartoon in their pipeline, The Iceman Ducketh, and the rest of the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio was closed in early 1963.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughter's company, Linda Jones Enterprises.

Jones was not a fan of much contemporary animation, terming most of it, especially television cartoons such as those of Hanna-Barbera, " illustrated radio ".

Jones was a historical authority as well as a major contributor to the development of animation throughout the 20th century.

Their correspondence was never published in the media, nonetheless it was sent to Michael Barrier, who had conducted the interview with Clampett and was distributed by Jones to multiple people concerned with animation over the years.

Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

Furthermore, his enhancements are the reason why he was able to survive being frozen in suspended animation for decades.

The film was an animation based upon Lynch's paintings.

The relative sophistication of this piece was not followed up for some time, with subsequent works in animation being limited to short, two or three frame effects, such as appeared in Edwin Porter's 1902 short " Fun in a Bakery Shop ", where a lump of dough was made to smile over the course of a three-frame sequence.

The technique of single frame animation was further developed in 1907 by Edwin S. Porter in The Teddy Bears and by J. Stuart Blackton with Work Made Easy.

Tale of Tales ( 1979 ) by Yuriy Norshteyn was twice given the title of " Best Animated Film of All Eras and Nations " by animation professionals from around the world, in 1984 and 2002.