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Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator, inventor, film director and producer.
Born to a Jewish family in Krakow, Poland, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian province of Galicia, Max Fleischer was the second oldest of six children of an Austrian immigrant tailor, William Fleischer.His family emigrated to the USA in 1887 and settled in New York City, where he attended public school
While still in his teens, he worked for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as an errand boy, and eventually became a cartoonist. It was during this period he met newspaper cartoonist and early animator, John Randolph Bray. He married his childhood sweetheart, Ethel (Essie) Gold on December 25, 1905. Shortly afterward he accepted an illustrator's job for a catalogue company in Boston. He returned to New York as Art Editor for Popular Science magazine around 1912; he also wrote books, including one called Noah's Shoes. Fleischer devised a concept to simplify the process of animating movement by tracing frames of live action film. His patent for the Rotoscope was granted in 1915, although Max and his brother Dave Fleischer made their first cartoon using the system in 1914. Extensive use of this technique was made in Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series for the first five years of the series, which started in 1919 and starred Koko the Clown and Fitz the dog.
Max Fleischer created such animations as: Betty boop Pop eye the sailor Superman Olive olyGulliver's travelsKO KO the clownpudgyBimboGrampyAnd many more ...
The company had its start when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, which allowed for extremely lifelike animation. Using this device, the Fleischer brothers got a contract with Bray Studio in 1919 to produce their own series called Out of the Inkwell.Using the rotoscope machine, he was responsible for a realism never seen in an animation film, as in the series Superman in 1941. Soon after, he invented another machine called Rotograph, where he turned possible the inclusion of real scenes as animations background. Fleischer developed also a new methodology where the characters could be placed in a 3D environment. His first film using this technique was ‘Poor Cinderella’, a film of the character Betty Boop and just after with the first coloured animation Popeye.
Without a doubt the rotoscope is the most polemic animation technique of the last times. Since its invention until current days, we can see comments about animation fluidity quality and authorship, once it could be considered a copy of a scene. To guarantee the sales of their animations, several studios deny even today its use. However, the rotoscope has been used for several decades in great movies successes, as “Terminator II”, when the T-1000 leaves the elevator and persecutes the heroes. In this scene, the rotoscope was used so that the 3D character could run like the actor.
Max Fleischer draws Betty, then leaves her for the night in the studio. Koko escapes from the inkwell and helps himself to a candy bar left behind by Max. He soon gets a terrible toothache. Betty tries to perform some amateur dentistry on Koko, but uses too much laughing gas. The laughing gas spreads the room, making a cuckoo clock and a typewriter laugh hysterically. The laughing gas then goes out the window and spreads into town. Both people and inanimate objects begin laughing hysterically, including (a mailbox, a parking meter, a bridge, cars and graves) The short ends when Betty and Koko get back in the inkwell, and it begins laughing, but although it gets tired from laughing.