| Rudolph Ising |
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| 1903 births | |
| 1982 deaths | |
| 1992 deaths | |
| multiple people | |
| american animators | |
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Harman and Ising first worked in animation in the early 1920s at Walt Disney's studio in Kansas City . When Disney moved operations to California , Harman, Ising, and fellow animator Carmen Maxwell stayed behind to try to start their own studio. Their plans went nowhere, however, and the men soon joined Disney out West to work on his '' Alice Comedies '' and '' Oswald The Lucky Rabbit '' films. When producer Charles Mintz ended his association with Disney, Harman and Ising went to work for Mintz, whose brother-in-law, George Winkler, set up a new animation studio to make the ''Oswald'' cartoons. However, the rights to Oswald were owned by distributor Universal Pictures , which started its own animation studio headed by Walter Lantz in 1929 , replacing Mintz and forcing Harman, Ising and others out of work. Even while still with Disney Harman and Ising had aspired to start their own studio, and had created and copyrighted the cartoon character Bosko in 1928 . After losing their jobs at the Winkler studio, Harman and Ising financed a short Bosko demonstration film called '' Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid '', notable for being the first sound cartoon of the late-1920s "talkie" era with dialogue. The sound cartoon, which featured Bosko at odds with his animator (portrayed in live-action by Rudy Ising) impressed Leon Schlesinger , who paired Harman and Ising with Warner Bros. . Schlesinger wanted the Bosko character to star in a new series of " Talkie " cartoons he dubbed '' Looney Tunes ''. The two animated '' Sinkin' In The Bathtub '' in 1930 , and the cartoon did well. Harman took over Direction of the '' Looney Tunes '' starring the character, while Ising took a sister series called '' Merrie Melodies '' that consisted of one-shot stories and characters. The two animators broke off ties with Schlesinger later in '' series ran significantly over-budget in 1937 , MGM fired Harman and Ising and established its own in-house studio headed by Fred Quimby . Harman and Ising still found some work as animation freelancers, directing, for example, the '' Silly Symphony '' '' Merbabies '' for Disney in 1938 . When Disney later reneged on a deal he had made for two other Harman-Ising pictures, the animators sold the cartoons to Quimby at MGM. Quimby later agreed to hire the animators back to the studio. Ising created the character Barney Bear for MGM at this time, basing the sleepy-eyed character partially on himself. In 1939 , Harman created his masterpiece, '' Peace On Earth '', a downbeat Morality Tale about two squirrels discovering the evils of humanity, which was nominated for an Oscar . Despite the success of this and other cartoons, MGM's production under Harman and Ising remained low. In 1941 , Harman left MGM and started a new studio with Disney veteran Mel Shaw . The two took over Ub Iwerks ' old studio in Beverly Hills, California , where they created training films for the Army . Ising quit the studio in 1942 to join the military. Harman and Ising are little known, even among some animation fans. This stems largely from the fact that they did not create any enduring characters. Instead, they created ''studios'' that would ''later'' produce such characters. Nevertheless, without them, the world might never have seen such famous characters as Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , and Tom And Jerry . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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