The film helped to generate a renewed interest in stop-motion animation.

" Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was " big enough in caliber and natural draft " to warrant a budget over $ 1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired Southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences.

However he never lost interest in animation and was always present at story-meetings ; here they needed him the most.

The film was a huge box-office success, winning four Academy Awards, reviving interest in animation made for theaters, and popularizing the in-depth study of the history and techniques of animation.

However, the release of The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of Kells in 2009, both nominated for an Academy Award, marked a renewed interest in traditional animation.

In the same year, Coraline and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox ( also Academy Award nominated ) renewed interest in stop motion animation.

* June 22-Walt Disney Productions releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the ' 70s.

Schure also had a great interest in animation, and was working on a project with an animated feature called Tubby the Tuba.

Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood, and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry.

From his early teens Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry.

He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled Vicky the Viking.

In California, she credits the influence of Disney animation, as well as the theater and dance environment of Hollywood for directing her interest toward movement.

It was said it had " Choppy animation, illogical perspectives, uninspired art, badly choreographed fight scenes, and most of all horrible voice acting ", and none of the interest of the video game or its sequels translate into the anime.

Characterizing her mother's previous work inking and painting cels for Fleischer, Bergman said it was a mechanical task, but it piqued her mother's interest in animation that was shared with Bergman years later by watching Saturday morning cartoon shows with her.

Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus.

Kricfalusi's interest in Golden Age animation crystallized during his stay at Sheridan College, where an acquaintance of his held weekly screenings of old films and cartoons, among them the cartoons of Bob Clampett and Tex Avery, which left a deep impression on Kricfalusi.

The founder of NYIT ( New York Institute of Technology ), entrepreneur and eccentric millionaire Dr. Alexander Schure, had a long and ardent interest in animation.

According to Wellington, " The curious blend of classic with realistic outlook which had been imposed by the discipline of David was now losing both animation and interest.

Clash's interest in animation in general, began with watching Disney on TV.

It also reflected my interest in video games and animation.

Growing up, Rockman had an interest in Natural History and Science, and developed fascination for film, animation, and the arts.

While studying for his Bachelor of Arts degree, Canemaker's childhood interest in animation revived.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

The immense amount of interest that the new jazz had for the younger generation must have impressed him, and he began working toward the merger of jazz and poetry, as he had previously attempted the union of graphic art and poetry.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

Heigo was academically gifted, but soon after failing to secure a place in Tokyo's foremost high school, he began to detach himself from the rest of the family, preferring to concentrate on his interest in foreign literature.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

His work began to interest others interested in spiritual ideas ; among these was the Theosophical Society.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

In the late 20th century, interest in Whorf's ideas experienced a resurgence, and a new generation of scholars began reading Whorf's works, arguing that previous critiques had only engaged superficially with Whorf's actual ideas, or had attributed him ideas he had never expressed.

Beginning in 1834, he spent his scholarly career at the University of Leipzig where he was mainly influenced by JGB Winer, and he began to take special interest in New Testament criticism.

By this time his interest in writing fiction began to lessen and he turned to creating sculptures from soft rock such as soapstone.

In the early part of the 20th century, the Dead Sea began to attract interest from chemists who deduced the Sea was a natural deposit of potash ( potassium chloride ) and bromine.

After the Spanish and Portuguese ports were closed to the Dutch ships, the Republic began to show interest for trading in the Atlantic region.

The upright bass began making a modest comeback in popular music in the mid-1980s, in part due to a renewed interest in earlier forms of rock and country music.

His interest in cooking began on the tour.

Over 1999 and early 2000, the U. S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, and the economy began to lose speed.

The British became the major power in the Indian sub-continent after the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) and began to show interest in Afghanistan as early as their 1809 treaty with Shuja Shah Durrani.

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

Following the collapse of the Mengistu government, Eritrean independence began drawing influential interest and support from the United States.

He soon became bored with his studies and, at the age of 14, he began to take a serious interest in mathematics.

Kollár's interest in linguistic and cultural diversity was aroused by the situation in his native multi-lingual Kingdom of Hungary and his roots among its Slovaks, and by the shifts that began to emerge after the gradual retreat of the Ottoman Empire in the more distant Balkans.

Bastiat began to develop an intellectual interest.

This portraiture of gladiators has been the highest interest in art for many centuries now, but it was Gaius Terentius who began the practice of having pictures made of gladiatorial shows and exhibited in public ; in honour of his grandfather who had adopted him he provided thirty pairs of Gladiators in the Forum for three consecutive days, and exhibited a picture of the matches in the Grove of Diana.

When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.

The revival of interest in Telemann began in the first decades of the 20th century and culminated in the Bärenreiter critical edition of the 1950s.