#Izzy Sparber

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Boos in the Nite | 1950

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Some storyboards done by Jack Mercer & Carl Meyer from the 1949 Popeye cartoon. Barking Dogs Don’t Fite, from the late Michael Sporn’s blog, “Splog” which he got the drawings from the also late Vinnie Cafarelli

Directed (supervising) by Izzy Sparber, Animation direction/head animation by Thomas Johnson for Famous Studios, Inc.

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blast from the past

I've been researching Fifties/early Sixties graphic arts recently, and got thinking about a couple of animated one-shot cartoons which I found weirdly frightening as a very small kid. (But not so scary that I wouldn't watch them.)

I couldn't remember the titles of either one, so had to search by what I could remember of their content. I managed to find the first one, but couldn't find the right search terms to nail the second one. Then I had a theory: their look and vibe was so similar, I suspected they had the same director. So I found his name -- Izzy Sparber -- looked up a list of his works, and there was my second one.

With their dark humour, stylized animation, and graphic look, these are archetypal Fifties cartoons.

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Showdown - Dir: Izzy Sparber & Steve Muffati

Superman (1942)

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Izzy Sparber, {1949} Marriage Wows

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Fleischer Studios  Production Reference Guide 1940

A work of reference compiled by Izzy Sparber and Seymour Kneitel describing the production methods and pipeline inside Fleischer Studios circa 1940.

https://archive.org/details/fleischer-studio-standard-production-reference

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Santa's Surprise

1947

animation, short, comedy

Five children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve, and decide to give him some extra help around the workshop.

Seymour Kneitel, Izzy Sparber

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"Paramount News" March, 1951 This cover from “Paramount News,” an in-house Paramount publication shows Seymour Kneitel, in the foreground, and Izzy Sparber, examining a reel of film, surrounded by some of the studios famous characters.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Boos in the Nite | 1950

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Fleischer Studios staff from 1930-1931

Vet Anderson, Andy Engman, and Ed Rehberg were formerly Fables/Van Beuren men who later moved to the west coast

Grim Natwick, James “Shamus” Culhane, Bernie Wolf, Al Eugster, & Art Turkisher all ended up going to Ub Iwerks before the other four men moved to other studios (mainly Disney)

William Henning was the inbetweening supervisor before Edith Vernick replaced him

Sam Stimson worked for Bill Nolan’s studio in New Jersey during the silent ages

Al Windley was a Harrison-Gould camera operator

Nick Tafuri, Bill Turner, Joe Stultz, Seymour Kneitel, Isadore Sparber, and Myron Waldman became Famous Studios regulars (with Seymour and Izzy also being supervisors for the studio as well)

H. Ritterband and Louis McCormick were camera operators who later moved to famous studios

Charles Schettler. Vera Coleman, Ruth Fleischer, and Edith Vernick were Inkwell studio veterans

Frank Paiker would later do camerawork for Hanna Barbera

Ted Sears later became a driving force in Disney’s story department

Sadie Friedlander later married and became Sadie Bodin, she got fired from Van Beuren during the time Burt Gillett reigned on the studio

George Cannata and Reuben Timmins (R. Timinsky here) worked in different studios Coast to Coast

Nelly Sanborn was the head of the timing department and later move on to famous studios somewhere into the ink & paint department under the name of Nelly Sanborn-Greene

Ben Shenkman would later become a prolific caricaturist/character designer for cartoons as well as assistant animator & animator

Harvey Eisenberg, Saul Kessler, & Al Geiss later became associated with TerryToons before moving to other studios (Eisenberg becoming a prominent layout artist/character designer for MGM’s Tom & Jerry and Al Geiss was involved with the Screen Gems Studio during the 40’s)

Milt Platkin would change his name to Kin Platt and become a noted story artist/scriptwriter. He’s noted for writing almost all of the Top Cat episodes for Hanna-Barbera

and Mae Schwartz was Dave Fleischer’s secretary

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Casper The Friendly Ghost - There's Good Boos Tonight (1948)

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Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon storyboard drawings (1951)

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Day 243 • Casper, ahead of Neil Armstrong by 15 years

Boo Moon (1954), dir. Seymour Kneitel, Izzy Sparber

738 Days of Movies

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The Friendly Ghost (1945)