Walter Lantz Productions Bolivar Productions Out of the Inkwell Studios
Headquarters
New York
,
United States
Key people
John Randolph Bray Earl Hurd Paul Terry Max Fleischer Dave Fleischer Walter Lantz
Owner
John Randolph Bray
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Bray Productions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons during the years of World War I and the early interwar era,[1][2][3] becoming a springboard for several key animators of the 20th century, including the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, Paul Terry, Shamus Culhane and Grim Natwick among others.
^Donald Crafton; Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928; University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11667-0 (2nd edition, paperback, 1993)
^Denis Gifford; American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897–1929; McFarland & Company; ISBN 0-89950-460-4 (library binding, 1990)
^Leonard Maltin; Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Penguin Books; ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (1980, 1987)
BrayProductions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons during the years of World War I and the early interwar...
Look up Bray or bray in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bray may refer to: Bray, Eure, in the Eure département Bray, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire...
to BrayProductions. By the mid-1920s, Lantz was directing (and acting in) the studio's top cartoon, Dinky Doodle, also becoming a producer as Bray attempted...
was often used in the Out of the Inkwell series (1918–1929) for John BrayProductions (and others). The series resulted from experimental rotoscoped images...
short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray'sBrayProductions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved...
After George Herriman conceived the Krazy Kat comic strip in 1913, the title character began appearing in animated shorts three years later. From 1916...
Animation Studios, and Walter Lantz Productions. He began his animation career in 1925 working for BrayProductions on the Dinky Doodle series, produced...
Stallings as head of production at Bray in 1924. At the urging of his friend Robert G. Vignola, Lantz moved to Hollywood, California, after Bray switched to a...
John Randolph Bray (August 25, 1879 – October 10, 1978) was an American animator, cartoonist, and film producer. John Randolph Bray was born in Addison...
Bray Magazine is a theatrical cartoon series consisting of three-minute shorts made by BrayProductions. It lasted from December 16, 1922 to 1923. The...
reunited with John R. Bray at Paramount Pictures. Bray had a distribution contract with Paramount at the time and hired Max as production supervisor for his...
Dinky Doodle was a cartoon character created by Walter Lantz for BrayProductions in 1924. Dinky was a standard boy character, sporting a flat cap, a striped...
known as Koko the Clown. Out of the Inkwell began at the Bray Studio as a monthly entry in The Bray Pictograph Screen Magazine produced for Paramount from...
Monhegan Island in Maine. He died in New York of pneumonia at age 55. BrayProductions Camouflage William Mackay Optical Illusion Retro Active United States...
confusion, or discomfort Shenanigan Kids, a 1920 animated series by BrayProductions Shamrocks & Shenanigans, 2004 album by the hip hop trio House of Pain...
1913 to 1917 and restarted in 1922 until 1924. It was produced by BrayProductions and directed by Vernon Stallings. The series was animated by Walter...
was often used in the Out of the Inkwell series (1918-1929) for John BrayProductions (and others). The series resulted from experimental rotoscoped images...
of a series of American silent animated short subjects produced by BrayProductions from 1915 to 1925. Inspired by R. F. Outcault's Buster Brown, Bobby...
Columbia unless otherwise noted. Krazy Kat (1925–39) (Inherited from BrayProductions) Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1928–29) (moved from Disney then moved to...
studio, Walter Lantz Productions, producing cartoons for Universal Pictures. Geronimi left Lantz in 1931 to join Walt Disney Productions, where he remained...
J.R. Bray, BrayProductions, to the honor of the first studio dedicated to animation. Though beaten to the post of being the first studio, Bray's studio...
through The Bray Studio. They featured Fleischer's first character, "The Clown", which became known as Ko-Ko the Clown in 1924. In 1921, The Bray Studio ran...
contracted as the Chicago-Detroit branch of BrayProductions, creating films for the auto industry, Bray's largest private client. General Motors selected...
of shorts produced by Terry for Bray Studios, starting with Farmer Al Falfa's Cat-Tastrophe (1916). After leaving Bray, Terry retained the character, making...
were immediately hired by Goldwyn-Bray (as BrayProductions was now known), but La Cava was not, since Goldwyn-Bray had several producers of its own and...
McDougall Alley Gang (BrayProductions, 1927–1928), The Us Bunch and Our Kids. There is evidence that Our Gang-style productions were filmed in small towns...
animated cartoon made in the United States. It was produced by Earl Hurd for Bray Pictures using the Brewster Color film process, and was released on February...
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