Animation: 1930s-1950s

  Walt Disney

Snow White is the first successful full-length animated feature film using cell based animation. The success that Snow White received started the Walt Disney Corporation off. It took over 100, 0000 drawings to make throughout the whole film. Snow White was premiered on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide release on February 4, 1938. The film made international earnings of $8 million during the initial release. Snow White set the record of highest grossing sound film at the time it was released. The popularity that the film has received led to it being re-released theatrically many times, it then was home video released during the 1990s.

Fleischer Brothers

Fleischer Studios Inc., is an American corporation which was originally an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City. It was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by Brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer; they both ran the company from the start until Paramount Picture forced them to resign in April 1942. Some of their well-known feature films are Gulliver’s Travels and Mr. Bug Goes to Town.

Art Clokey

Arthur ‘Art’ Clokey is an American creator of stop motion clay animation. He began by creating a film experiment called Gumbasia which was influences by his professor in 1955. He’s best known for the characters Gumby and Pokey as they became popular faces on American Television by appearing in The Howdy Doody show. He’s also best known for Gumby: The Movie which was released in the 1990s.

Fred Quimby

Fred Quimby is an American cartoon producer, he’s best known for producing the Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones is an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer and director of animated feature films. He’s best known for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short films that he created for the Warner Bros studio. After his career at Warner Bros he began producing new series of Tom and Jerry short films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he also produced Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!