 William Snyder created the company Rembrandt Films, where animator Gene Deitch directed both his own films and cartoons outsourced from American studios such as MGM ("Tom and Jerry"), Columbia Pictures (UPA), 20th Century Fox (Terrytoons), Paramount (Nudnik), and King Features ("Popeye").Four of Rembrandt's short cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film between 1960 and 1964.One short, a short entitled "Munro", told the story of a four-year-old boy drafted into the army, and won the 1960 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.