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Director, Producer Born: July 19, 1883 in Vienna, Austria Death: November 12, 1972 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:Austrian-born cartoonist/animator "Max Fleischer" moved to the U.S. with his family at age four. He initially studied to be a mechanic, but chose instead a career in art, beginning with a photo-engraving job on the Brooklyn Eagle. While working at Popular Science Monthly, Fleischer developed an interest in the burgeoning field of animation. Together with his younger brother Dave, Fleischer began producing instructional cartoons for the Army in 1915; during this period, the Fleischer brothers developed and patented the Rotoscope process, wherein live-action films are traced frame-by-frame onto animation cells. With Dave working as his live model, "Max" inaugurated his own cartoon series, officially titled "Out of the Inkwell" but more popularly known as "Koko the Clown." These short cartoons ingeniously (and sometimes brilliantly) combined animation with live action, usually in the form of an... Full Biography
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