Cartoons did not have to obey the rules of the real world ( as the short films of Tex Avery and their cartoon physics proved ), and so UPA experimented with a non-realistic style that depicted caricatures rather than lifelike representations.

The strip was drawn in the " ultra-modern abstract style " popularized by UPA animations such as Mr. Magoo and the comedy arose from the contradiction between the drawings and their captions.

Nonetheless, UPA had a significant impact on animation style, content, and technique, and its innovations were recognized and adopted by the other major animation studios and independent filmmakers all over the world.

UPA pioneered the technique of limited animation, and though this style of animation came to be widely abused during the 1960s and 1970s as a cost-cutting measure, it was originally intended as a stylistic alternative to the growing trend ( particularly at Disney ) of recreating cinematic realism in animated films.

With a unique, sparse drawing style that contrasted greatly with other cartoons of the day, not to mention the novelty of a human character in a field crowded with talking mice, rabbits, and bears, the Mr. Magoo series won accolades for UPA.

The " UPA style " began to influence significant changes at the other major animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, and even Disney, ushering in a new era of experimentation in animation.

The UPA style was markedly different from everything else being seen on movie screens, and audiences responded to the change that UPA offered from the repetition of usual cat-mouse battles.

The new Hanna-Barbera utilized the limited animation style that UPA had pioneered.

UPA soon became known for their highly stylized designs and limited animation.

During the time that the OUN-B in Volhynia was avoiding conflict with the German authorities and working with them, resistance to the Germans was limited to Soviet partisans on the extreme northern edge of the region, to small bands of OUN-M fighters, and to a group of guerillas knowns as the UPA or the Polessian Sich, unaffiliated with the OUN-B and led by Taras Bulba-Borovets of the exiled Ukrainian People's Republic.

Earlier, as an animation writer, Kinney was part of the story crew on various Disney, Walter Lantz, UPA and King Features theatrical and TV cartoons.

Genndy was influenced by Hanna-Barbera, Japanese animation, Warner Bros. cartoons, and the UPA shorts.

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films.

UPA Pictures ' legacy in the history of animation has largely been overshadowed by the commercial success of the vast cartoon libraries of Warner Brothers and Disney.

Initially, UPA contracted with the United States government to produce its animation output, but the government contracts began to evaporate as the FBI began investigating Communist activities in Hollywood in the late 1940s.

But, as the major Hollywood studios began cutting back and shutting down their animation studios in the early 1960s, UPA was in financial straits, and Steve Bosustow sold the studio to a new producer, Henry G. Saperstein.

Saperstein kept UPA afloat in the 1960s and beyond by abandoning animation production completely after the animation studio closed permanently in 1964 and sold off UPA's library of cartoons, although the studio retained the licenses and copyrights on Mr. Magoo, Gerald McBoing-Boing and the other UPA characters.

Because of its long association with Toho, UPA is better known to cult-movie fans today as Toho's American distributor rather than a pioneer of animated cartoons, but the legacy of UPA is an important chapter in the history of American animation.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol was produced by Henry G. Saperstein and the UPA animation studio in its declining days.

In 1964 UPA decided to abandon animation and simply become a distribution company.

Along with some other former Disney strikers, Babbitt left Disney and went to join the United Productions of America ( UPA ), a new studio which pioneered a modern, simplified form of animation.

The departures also included David Hilberman and John Hubley, who all went on to form a new animation studio known as United Productions of America, or UPA.

The feature was produced by UPA, and directed by his former Warner collaborator, Abe Levitow.

Jones moonlighted to work on the film, since he had an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. UPA completed the film and made it available for distribution in 1962 ; it was picked up by Warner Bros.

Henry Saperstein ( whose company UPA co-produced the 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World and the 1966 film War of the Gargantuas with Toho ) was so impressed with the octopus sequence that he requested the creature to appear in these two productions.

The International Airport constructed at Hyderabad has been named Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and was inaugurated by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

In 1979 and 1980 the Ultimate Players Association ( UPA ) was formed.

This film was the first successful theatrical cartoon produced by UPA, after their initial experiments with a short series of cartoons featuring Columbia Pictures stalwarts The Fox and the Crow.

The new body decided to call itself Ulster Protestant Action ( UPA ), and the first year of its existence was taken up with the discussion of vigilante patrols, street barricades, and drawing up lists of IRA suspects in both Belfast and in rural areas.

The UPA was to later become the Protestant Unionist Party in 1966.

In the 1960s UPA produced several Mr. Magoo and Dick Tracy series and specials, the most popular of which was Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

UPA was founded in the wake of the Disney animators ' strike of 1941, which resulted in the exodus of a number of long-time Walt Disney staff members.

UPA responded, not with another " funny animal ," but the star was a human character, a crotchety, nearsighted old man.

Columbia, fearful of the investigations, pressured UPA to dismiss anyone with even the slightest hint of communist association, including writers Phil Eastman and Bill Scott ( who was not himself under suspicion but tainted by association as Eastman's writing partner ).

UPA was forced to churn out cartoons at a far greater quantity than the studio had done for theatrical releases or even the CBS television series ; quality, particularly of the Mr. Magoo series, sank to an embarrassing level.

In the early 2000's UPA was acquired by Classic Media.

Although DreamWorks now owns the ancillary rights to most of the UPA library, UPA itself continues to hold the licensing rights to Mr. Magoo, and Saperstein was executive producer to Disney's unsuccessful live-action feature Mr. Magoo in 1997 ( DreamWorks does own some rights, however ).

By 1946, the studio was renamed as United Productions of America ( UPA ), and Hilberman and Schwartz had sold their shares of the studio stock to Bosustow.

The UPA did not enjoy a simple majority on its own in the parliament, rather it has relied on the external support to ensure that it enjoys the confidence of the Indian parliament similar to the formula adopted by the previous minority governments of the United Front, the NDA, the Congress government of Narasimha Rao, and earlier governments of V P Singh and Chandrashekhar.

The NCCUSL website lists these states as having adopted UPA ( 1997 ): Alabama, Alaska, Arizona,

Following its UPA usage, it was adopted in the Skolt Sami and Laz language alphabet for the same value.