1. Max Fleischer
By: Dustin Davidson

2. Who Is Max Fliescher?
Max Fleischer was the creator of the rotoscope, the first sound cartoon and Betty Boop as well as a few more somewhat well known characters. He was born on July and died on September 11, 1972

3. Max’s beginnings
Fleischer began his career at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle first as an Errand Boy, and was advanced to Photographer, Photoengraver, and later, became a staff Cartoonist. At first he drew single panel editorial cartoons, then graduated to the full strips, "Little Algie," and "S.K. Sposher, the Camera Fiend." These satirical strips reflected his life in Brownsville and his fascination with technology and photography respectively-both displaying his sense of irony and fatalism. It was during this period he met newspaper cartoonist and early animator, John Randolph Bray, who would later give him his start in the animation field.

4. The Rotoscope and Sound Picture
By 1914 the first commercially produced animated cartoons started to appear in movie theaters. But they tended to be stiff and jerky. Fleischer devised an improvement in animation through a combined projector and easel for tracing images from live action film. This device, known as a rotoscope, also in 1927 he created the first animation with sound.

5. The fall
During its zenith by the mid 1930s, Fleischer Studios was producing four series, Betty Boop, Popeye, Screen Songs, and Color Classics, resulting in 52 releases each year. From the very beginning, Fleischer's business relationship with Paramount was a joint financial and distribution arrangement, making his studio a service company supplying product for the company's theaters. The popularity of the Popeye cartoons created a demand for more. To meet Paramount's demands the studio was challenged with rapid expansion, production speed ups, and crowded working conditions. Finally in May 1937, Fleischer Studios was affected by a five-month strike, resulting in a boycott that kept the studio's releases off theater screens until November. Max, having a paternal attitude towards his employees took it personally as if he had been betrayed.

6. The End Of Fleischer Studios
With the cancellation of Paramount's Christmas release, Max was called to a meeting with Paramount’s president in New York where he asked him for his resignation, Dave having resigned the month before. Paramount finished out the remaining five months of the Fleischer contract with the absence of both Max and Dave Fleischer and the change to Famous Studios became official on May 27, Paramount installed new management.

7. Later Career
Unable to form a new studio for the demand for military training films, Fleischer was brought in as the head of the animation department for the industrial film company, The Jam Handy Organization in Detroit, Michigan. After the war he supervised production of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.
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8. Disney and Fleischer
Max’s son, Richard was working as a director of animation for Disney’s adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The issue was that Max Fleischer and Disney had issues during the days of Fleischer Studios Disney and Fleischer had a studio feud that Disney won. Apparently it made Max so angry to hear Disney he would automatically swear when his name was said. But Max and Disney actually became good friends as Disney hired most of the animators from Fleischer studios including Max.
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9. Death of Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer passed away on September 11, 1972 from arterial sclerosis of the brain, after he won the lawsuit of paramount for his credit on his characters back.
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10. Cited sources
Wikipedia