In the early-1960s, Jones and his wife Dorothy wrote the screenplay for the animated feature Gay Purr-ee.

He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown.

In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special.

In 1987, Otomo continued working in anime, directing an animated work for the first time: a segment, which he also wrote the screenplay and drew animation for, in the anthology feature Neo Tokyo.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

Instead of Pippi Longstocking, Miyazaki conceived, wrote, designed and animated two Panda!

In 1997, Waits and Brennan wrote and performed the music for Bunny the animated short film by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, which was awarded Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Disney sent an unfinished print to New York distributor Margaret Winkler, who promptly wrote back to him that she was keen on a distribution deal for more live-action / animated shorts based upon Alice's Wonderland.

Empire wrote that ; " Gromit doesn't ever say a word, but there has never been a more expressive character ( animated or otherwise ) to grace our screens.

In 2002, he wrote and recorded " Father and Daughter ", the theme song for the animated children's movie The Wild Thornberrys Movie, The track was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.

Prince wrote and performed a song for the hit 2006 animated film Happy Feet.

" Elysa Gardner of USA Today wrote: " Jackson claims not to be bothered by the brigade of barely post-adolescent baby divas who have been inspired by — and, in some cases, have flagrantly aped — the sharp, animated choreography and girlish but decidedly post-feminist feistiness that have long been hallmarks of her performance style.

Bosley Crowther for one wrote in The New York Times, " More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called ' live action ' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased ," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is " approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm.

Evanier subsequently wrote for the Hanna-Barbera comic book division and a number of variety shows and specials, and he began writing for animated cartoon shows, including Scooby Doo, Plastic Man, Thundarr the Barbarian, The ABC Weekend Special, Richie Rich, The Wuzzles, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Newsdays Joseph Gelmis wrote that " the film's principal reward is a visual experience unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment ".

The New York Times Vincent Canby wrote, " I'm amazed at the success that Mr. Bakshi has in turning animated characters into figures of real feelings.

After enrolling at CalArts in 1990 to study animation, Tartakovsky wrote, directed, animated, and produced two cartoon shorts that would become the basis for the series.

Together they wrote the screenplays of a number of animated movies, starting with the short " The Little Soldier " (" Le Petit Soldat ", 1947 ).

As his father wrote home, " He is quite a close observer of animated nature.

With Yutaka Fujioka, he wrote the story — for the 1982 Japanese animated feature film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland ; as well, he was a conceptual designer for the movie.

During the 1748 Siege of Pondicherry Clive distinguished himself in successfully defending a trench against a French sortie: one witness of the action wrote " platoon, animated by his exhortation, fired again with new courage and great vivacity upon the enemy.

For his September 15, 1961, animated guest appearance in " The Hit Songwriters " episode of The Flintstones, Hoagy wrote and performed a song created especially for the show, " Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Dabba-Doo ".

He also produced a series of stories based on the Our Gang film series, provided covers for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, illustrated the aforementioned adaptations of two Disney animated features, drew stories featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy and Uncle Wiggily, wrote and drew a lengthy series of comic books promoting a bread company and featuring a character called " Peter Wheat ", and did a series of pantomime ( i. e. without dialogue ) two-page stories featuring Roald Dahl's Gremlins for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 34 – 41.

Mercer also wrote hundreds of scripts for various cartoon series, including a number of " Popeye " episodes, animated cartoons produced for Paramount Pictures, Deputy Dawg and Milton the Monster.

The semi-autobiographical script that Tati wrote in 1956 was released internationally as an animated film The Illusionist in ( 2010 ).

Still another, annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive, wrote: `` yore letter was short and sweet, jist like a roasted maget ''.

Extremely prolific for a few years, van Vogt wrote a large number of short stories.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

At Esprit, Marker wrote political commentaries, poems, short stories and ( with Bazin ) film reviews.

** Note: under the pseudonym " Jacopo Berenizi " Marker wrote the commentary for this short about whale hunters in the Azores.

** Note: Marker wrote the commentary for this fictional short ( Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker wrote and spoke all the commentary for this short film about fruit juice in Alexandrine verse ( Film Comment ).

* Anne McCaffrey wrote short stories and novels known as The Ship Series ( 1961 -) where otherwise crippled humans live on as the brains of starships and large space stations.

For nine years after his father died, he worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, attended USC, reviewed some movies, and wrote 88 short stories and six novels that were rejected for publication.

" In Mexico he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as Gun Crazy ( 1950 ), based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, who was the front for the screenplay.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

In 1746 he wrote his first original work: the Pensées philosophiques, and he added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of natural religion.

In 1909, Jones wrote the short Pronunciation of English, a book which he later radically revised.

Runyon frequently contributed sports poems to the American on boxing and baseball themes, and also wrote numerous short stories and essays.

The South Galatian view holds that Paul wrote Galatians before or shortly after the First Jerusalem Council, probably on his way to it, and that it was written to churches he had presumably planted during either his time in Tarsus ( he would have traveled a short distance, since Tarsus is in Cilicia ) after his first visit to Jerusalem as a Christian, or during his first missionary journey, when he traveled throughout southern Galatia.

As Weizenbaum later wrote, " I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.

In 1947, Bradbury wrote a short story titled " Bright Phoenix " ( later revised for publication in a 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ).

Olympe de Gouges wrote a number of plays, short stories, and novels.

In 1960 Dyson wrote a short paper for the journal Science, entitled " Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation ".

William Faulkner who wrote novels and short stories in the Southern Gothic genre.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").

In addition to his works directly addressing problem solving, Pólya wrote another short book called Mathematical Methods in Science, based on a 1963 work supported by the National Science Foundation, edited by Leon Bowden, and published by the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) in 1977.

His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son.