Who was the director of the film whose success, along with that of An American Tail and The Land Before Time, prompted Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio?
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An American Tail An American Tail is a 1986 American animated musical adventure family comedy-drama film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment. It tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from Russian Empire-controlled territory of Ukraine to the United States for freedom. However, he gets lost and must find a way to reunite with them. It was released on November 21, 1986, to reviews that ranged from positive to mixed and was a box office hit, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film at the time. The success of it, "The Land Before Time", and Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", as well as Bluth's departure from their partnership, prompted Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio, Amblimation.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film is based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Combining live-action and animation, the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s, where animated characters and people co-exist. The story follows Eddie Valiant, a private detective who must exonerate "Toon" Roger Rabbit, who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman.
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Stitch! The Movie Stitch! The Movie is an American direct-to-video animated film in the "Lilo & Stitch" franchise, released on August 26, 2003. Although it follows the events of the first film (and, by extension, the 2005 direct-to-video sequel ""), it is often considered more of a backdoor pilot for the spin-off series "". The story is an introduction to Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625 experiments (made prior to Stitch) that he created with the financing of Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel. The film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Television Animation, with animation done by Rough Draft Korea and Starburst Animation.
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Winnie-the-Pooh (1969 film) Winnie-the-Pooh (Russian: Винни-Пух ) is a 1969 animated film by Soyuzmultfilm directed by Fyodor Khitruk. The film is based on chapter one in the book series by A. A. Milne. It is the first part of a trilogy, along with two sequels: "Winnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit" () and "Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day" ().
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Rabbit Seasoning Rabbit Seasoning is a 1952 "Merrie Melodies" cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. It is the sequel to "Rabbit Fire", and the second entry in the "Hunting trilogy" directed by Jones and written by Michael Maltese. (The only major difference in format between them is that "Rabbit Seasoning" takes place during the spring, while "Rabbit Fire" takes place in autumn. The third cartoon, "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!", takes place in the winter.) Produced by Edward Selzer for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., the short was released to theaters on September 20, 1952 by Warner Bros. Pictures and is widely considered among Jones' best and most important films. In Jerry Beck's 1994 book "The 50 Greatest Cartoons", "Rabbit Seasoning" is listed at number thirty.
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Once Upon a Forest Once Upon a Forest is a 1993 animated film based on the "Furlings" characters created by Rae Lambert. A Hanna-Barbera/HTV Cymru/Wales production released by 20th Century Fox, the film was directed by Charles Grosvenor and produced by David Kirschner.
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Twice Upon a Time (1983 film) Twice Upon a Time is a 1983 American animated fantasy comedy film directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson. It is the first animated film produced by George Lucas. The movie uses a form of cutout animation which the filmmakers called "Lumage", involving prefabricated cut-out plastic pieces that the animators moved on a light table.
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Golden age of American animation The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the advent of sound cartoons in 1928 and continued until around 1969 when theatrical animated shorts began losing to the new medium of television animation.
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The Animation Picture Company The Animation Picture Company is an American animation studio in Sherman Oaks, California. It was founded in late 2006 by Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Brain Manis, and Ash Shah.
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20th Century Fox Animation Twentieth Century Fox Animation (stylized as 20th Century Fox Animation) is the animation division of the film studio 20th Century Fox, tasked for production feature-length animated film.
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The Angry Birds Movie The Angry Birds Movie (or simply Angry Birds) is a 2016 3D computer-animated comedy film based on the video game series of the same name, but it can also be interpreted to be a direct prequel to, or origin story behind the original game. Produced by Rovio Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly in their directorial debuts, and written by Jon Vitti. The film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage. It is an international co-production between the United States and Finland.
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Richard Linklater Richard Stuart Linklater ( ; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990), the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003), and the rotoscope animated "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). In 2002 he began filming "Boyhood" (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture. In 2015, "Time" magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual "Time 100" list.
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Clive A. Smith Clive A. Smith (often credited as Clive Smith) is a British expatriate director and animator who, with Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, founded Canadian animation studio Nelvana in 1971. Smith worked on some of his studio's first TV specials, including "A Cosmic Christmas" (1977), which was broadcast on CBC Television in Canada and syndicated in the United States proving to be Nelvana's breakthrough production. He also helmed the studio's next special, "The Devil and Daniel Mouse", in 1978. He worked as director of Nelvana's first feature film, 1983's "Rock and Rule", and its 1997 animated version of the Pippi Longstocking saga. He also directed "A Wookie's Christmas" (also known as "The Faithful Wookie") for George Lucas and "Family Dog" for Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg. Smith retired from Nelvana in 2001, the year after he and his co-founders sold the studio to Corus Entertainment.
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Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon is a 2014 animated fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Directed and produced by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone, it premiered on July 27, 2014, at San Diego Comic-Con International. It is the first Tom and Jerry direct-to-video film to be marketed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in Japan. It was originally released digitally on August 19, 2014, to be followed by a DVD release on September 2, 2014.
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Tangled (franchise) Tangled is a Disney media franchise started by the 2010 American animated feature "Tangled", which was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman and produced by Roy Conli, with songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer John Lasseter served as the film's executive producer. The original film was inspired by the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the collection of folk tales published by the Brothers Grimm.
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Return to Oz (TV program) Return to Oz is an animated television special produced by Crawley Films for Rankin/Bass (Videocraft). It first aired February 9, 1964 in the United States on NBC's "General Electric Color Fantasy Hour". It was directed by F. R. Crawley, Thomas Glynn, and Larry Roemer from a teleplay by Romeo Muller, who later wrote "Dorothy in the Land of Oz".
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Stephen J. Anderson Stephen John Anderson is an American animator, film director, screenwriter and voice actor.
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Film Roman Film Roman is an American animation studio owned by Waterman Entertainment, the production company of producer Steve Waterman. Founded by veteran animator and director Phil Roman in 1984, it is best known for producing source animation for series such as "The Simpsons" (1992–2016), "King of the Hill" and "Family Guy" for 20th Century Fox Animation, as well as "Garfield and Friends" and various "Garfield" animated television specials.
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Hawley Pratt Hawley Pratt (June 9, 1911 – March 2, 1999) was an American film director, animator, and illustrator. He is best known for his work during the heyday of Warner Bros. Cartoons and as the right-hand man of director Friz Freleng as a layout artist and later as a director. Pratt also worked for Walt Disney Studios, Filmation, and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises where he co-created The Pink Panther.
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Dave Wasson David "Dave" Wasson is an American television producer, director, screenwriter, animator and art director. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a B.F.A. He is best known for creating "Time Squad" and directing and writing on the series "Mickey Mouse Shorts". He was the supervising director of "Making Fiends" and was the executive producer and director of the series "The Buzz on Maggie". Also, he is the author/illustrator of the children's book "The Big Ideas of Buster Bickles".
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List of films directed by Tex Avery Tex Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director. He became famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden age of American animation and produced his most significant work while employed by the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. He created the characters of Daffy Duck in "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937), Elmer Fudd in "Egghead Rides Again" (1937), Bugs Bunny in "A Wild Hare" (1940), Cecil Turtle in "Tortoise Beats Hare" (1941), Droopy in "Dumb-Hounded" (1943), Screwy Squirrel in "Screwball Squirrel" (1944), George and Junior in "Henpecked Hoboes" (1946), Spike/Butch the bulldog (Tex Avery's version) in "Bad Luck Blackie" (1949), and Smedley Dog in "I'm Cold" (1954). He would develop the characters of Porky Pig from the Warner Bros. studio and Chilly Willy from the Walter Lantz Studio into the personas for which they are best remembered.
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John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He currently is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios. He is also the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.