Origins Toward the New Century Gathering at the River The Scopes Trial and Beyond Decline and Revivial The Passing of the Old Order New Directions A Remedy to a Bad Act The Creationist Challenge Somewhere in Heaven, John Scopes Is Smiling
Richard Fleischer, the son of Max Fleischer, has directed major motion pictures such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green, Doctor DoLittle, and Tora! Tora! Tora! and won the Academy Award for producing the documentary feature Design for Death. He published a memoir, Just Tell Me When to Cry, in 1993.
""A precious record of an important animation pioneer." --
Animation" --
""A primary piece of history that tells the story of an unexplored
but vital figure in animation's short history." -- Palm Beach Post"
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""A short, informal and highly--do we dare?--animated history" --
Barnstable Patriot" --
""A vivid portrait of the life and world of a man who shaped
television animation and became a major player in the development
of Hollywood entertainment." -- Animation Magazine" --
""A wonderful read and a tribute by a son to a famous father." --
Umbrella" --
""Besides creating the jazz-age siren Betty Boop and bring Popeye
and Superman to the screen, Max invented the rotoscope, a process
for creating animated cartoons by tracing live-action footage....
[A] lively memoir." -- Booklist" --
""Fleischer captures the life and career and other talented family
members this succinct, anecdote-filled biography. This book
deserves a wide readership. Highly recommended." -- Choice" --
""Max Fleischer is animation's unsung hero. If Walt Disney is the
most celebrated and chronicled producer in the history of the
medium, Fleischer is his polar opposite. Fleischer has long been a
hero to anyone who loves animated cartoons. Now, thanks to his son,
we can get to know the very human figure behind all those wonderful
films." --Leonard Maltin, from the foreword" --
""Max Fleischer, the main Hollywood rival of Walt Disney, finally
gets his due." -- Dallas Morning News" --
""Richard Fleischer has brought a loving tribute to his dad, and a
reminder, in times where computer animation seems so effortless, of
just how much hard work it took for the pioneers in the field to
make the drawings dance." -- Times of Acadiana" --
""Richard Fleischer, a film director who never became a household
name despite working with some of Hollywood's biggest stars... [his
son] Max Fleischer, and Max's siblings were pioneers in the early
days of animation, gaining fame with their Betty Boop and Popeye
the Sailor shorts in the 1930s." -- The New York Times" --
""Richard Fleischer, director of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
charts the life of his dad, who animated Popeye and Superman, as
well as Ms. Boop, and seemed destined to trump Walt Disney in the
annals of animation history." -- Vanity Fair" --
""There is probably no one more important to the birth and early
development of animation than Max Fleischer and no one better than
his son, director Richard Fleischer, to tell the amazing story of
the creative genius behind Fleischer Studios." --Army Archard" --
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