He would return to Disney in 1940 and go on to pioneer a number of film processes and specialized animation technologies in the studio's research and development department.

As he perfected his animation style, he began to take on more jobs, including creating design tests for the studio's head director, Gene Deitch.

The most devastating development since Walt's death occurred in September 1979, when studio animator Don Bluth led a walkout of himself and 11 of his supporters ( a large chunk of the studio's animation department at the time ), including Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy.

Bluth and Goldman returned to the United States a year earlier to discuss the creation of a feature-animation division at 20th Century Fox ; the studio's three previous animated films ( FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Once Upon a Forest, and the live-action / animation combo The Pagemaster ) had all failed.

During Michael D. Eisner's 1990 restructuring of The Walt Disney Company, the studio's animation division was spun off to officially create Walt Disney Feature Animation as a subsidiary of the company.

He issued a letter criticizing Eisner for mismanaging the company, neglecting the studio's animation division, failures with ABC, timidity in the theme park business, instilling a corporate mentality in the executive structure, turning the Walt Disney Company into a " rapacious, soul-less " conglomerate, and for refusing to establish a clear succession plan.

Betty was the first featured female character in American animation, and she reflected the distinctive adult urban orientation of the studio's product.

Throughout the studio's history, it maintained a reputation as an animation house of medium quality.

The pixilation technique was also used for the opening of Claymation, Will Vinton's 1978, 17-minute documentary about his animation studio's production techniques, the first time the famous trademarked Claymation term was used, now a term synonymous with all clay animation.

His studio's animation effects for Disney's Return to Oz ( 1985 ) were also nominated for a special effects Oscar.

The Goofy Gophers were largely forgotten by Warner Bros. in the years since the animation studio's closing in 1969.

Fantasia 2000 features many technical innovations that would later be utilized in the Disney studio's other animation works, particularly in the use of computers.

" 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.

He wanted to revive the classical animation style of the studio's early classics.

All Rankin / Bass material from 1974-1989 ( except The Last Unicorn ) are now owned by Warner Bros. ( through the studio's 1989 acquisition of Lorimar-Telepictures ) and managed by its animation division.

The translated and edited versions of the studio's more successful animated series, such as Hiroshi Sasagawa's Speed Racer ( 1967 ), Gatchaman ( 1972 ), and " Neon Genesis Evangelion " ( 1995 ) are credited with bringing international attention to Japanese animation.

From 1942 to 1943, 95 percent of the studio's animation was for the military.

A lifelong fan of Disney animated films, Deja was hired by the studio in 1980 after he had corresponded with Eric Larson, one of Disney's senior Nine Old Men of animation who ran the studio's training department.

is a half-hour live-action television program produced by Filmation ( the animation studio's first such program ), based upon DC Comics ' superhero Captain Marvel.

The studio's new policy permitted what Mirisch called " B-plus " pictures, which were released along with Monogram's established line of B fare.

The studio's massive remaining backlot set, " New York Street ", features numerous blocks of facades that depict a number of New York locales: " Washington Square ", ( where The Heiress, starring Olivia de Havilland, was shot ) " Harlem ", " Financial District ", and others.

Screenwriter Darryl F. Zanuck produced several scripts for Rin Tin Tin vehicles and, during one year, wrote more than half of the studio's features.

The album was recorded at Saddle Creek Records in Omaha, Nebraska, and the aforementioned features show the influence of that studio's associated Omaha Sound.

The studio's production logo features a wavy gray image of Space Ghost's fictional studio from Space Ghost Coast to Coast, with the words " Ghost Planet Industries " or " Williams Street " written underneath it.

His smooth baritone voice got him teamed with Universal's singing star Gloria Jean for two features in 1944, and then Universal selected him to replace Rod Cameron ( who had just been promoted to more important roles ) as the studio's B-Western series star in 1945.

The studio's focus was on low-budget features which it could place in its theatres in the Northeast and South.

Prolific screenwriter Darryl F. Zanuck produced several scripts for Rin Tin Tin vehicles and, during one year, wrote more than half of the studio's features.

The debt Fleischer Studios owed to Paramount for the budgets of those features, worsened by the lack of success that came from the studio's non-Popeye cartoons, was called in by Paramount ; this forced the brothers to give the studio to Paramount on May 24, 1941.

At the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 55 % " Rotten " rating among critics, summarizing that it was " One of the weaker Disney adaptations, Robin Hood is cute and colorful but lacks the majesty and excitement of the studio's earlier efforts.

Released on New Year's Day in 2000, Fantasia 2000 was the studio's first IMAX release and the first theatrical feature to to be presented in IMAX theaters.

After leaving Warner Bros. in 1946 ( reportedly due to angering his peers at the studio's cartoon division for taking credit that was not really his ), Bob Clampett approached Republic and wound up directing a single cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag, featuring the equine character Charlie Horse.

He introduced and / or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam ( to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance ) and Speedy Gonzales.

One of the studio's first CinemaScope films, The High and the Mighty ( now owned by John Wayne's company Batjac ), enabled the studio to show a profit.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the tenth highest grossing film of 1961, accruing $ 6, 400, 000 in distributors ' domestic ( U. S. and Canada ) rentals during its first year of release, and one of the studio's most popular films of the decade.

One of the studio's television specials was 1973's The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, with Tommy Smothers voicing the little bruin who goes out to find Christmas ( in the human world ), while his fellow bears head for hibernation.

One of the studio's specialities was producing programmes for young children.

One problem that remained for Warner, however, was the studio's projectionist labor union, which was now controlled by the Mafia.

One of the studio's first CinemaScope films, The High and Mighty, brought the studio some profit.

The Smurfs ( 2011 ) was the studio's first CGI / live-action hybrid and its most successful release.

Some systems use dedicated hardware to reduce the load on the host CPU, as with Symbolic Sound Corporation's Kyma System, and the Creamware / Sonic Core Pulsar / SCOPE systems, which used several DSP chips hosted on a PCI card to power an entire studio's worth of instruments, effects, and mixers.

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

Although MGM owned UA around this time, the latter studio's licensing deal with CBS / Fox was still in effect ; however, the newly-renamed MGM / UA Home Video started releasing some UA product, including a few recent films.

Netflix has speculated that the effect of the Blockbuster-Weinstein agreement could result in higher rental costs and / or fewer copies of the studio's movies, which would limit the number of each movie's DVDs that would be available to subscribers at any one time.

Many Topcraft staffers, including the studio's founder Toru Hara ( who was credited in some of Rankin / Bass ' specials ), would go on to join Studio Ghibli and work on Hayao Miyazaki's feature films, including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and My Neighbor Totoro.

These artists remained with Famous / Paramount for much of the studio's existence.

Studio C's gallery was situated on the first floor between the Comm's centre / TAR ( Technical Apparatus Room ) and the Glazed Long Gallery at the front of the building and was the studio's original continuity booth.

The editing was also difficult due to the studio's desire to cut down the large amount of Jennifer Lopez / Ben Affleck footage following the poor box-office performance of Gigli.

Other notable films included Affliction, Gods and Monsters, Dogma, Saw and the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9 / 11, which, until the release of The Hunger Games in 2012, became the studio's highest grossing film.

The studio's next film, Osmosis Jones ( 2001 ), was another animated / live action mix that suffered through another troubled production.

Despite the studio's financial troubles, MGM announced in January 2010 that it planned a remake of F / X, with Robert Mandel directing.

The studio's first game was the science fiction RPG / shooter System Shock 2, a direct sequel to Looking Glass ' original 1993 System Shock.

MPTV / WMVS / WMVT also has the unique distinction of having the channel numbers for both of their stations within their studio's address number, which is in Milwaukee's street numbering system ( most television or radio stations with their channel number as an address use a vanity address / street not within a community's numbering system ).

If one were to edit using D2 VTRs with analog I / O then there is image loss due to repeated analog to digital conversions and the normal image defects contained in a studio's analog infrastructure.

This was the final album to be recorded at Caribou Ranch, which was owned by former Chicago producer / manager James William Guercio before the infamous March 1985 fire that destroyed the studio's control room.

At MGM, he returned as Droopy and also played Droopy's recurring bulldog nemesis Spike, known as Butch in his appearances that were produced after Avery's departure from MGM, and many other characters in the studio's cartoon shorts ( he used the Wimple / Droopy voice for the titular Native American caricature in Big Heel-Watha and for Tom's lookalike cousin George in a 1957 Tom and Jerry entry Timid Tabby, for two examples ).