30-683: [REDACTED] Look up Bray or bray in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bray may refer to: Places [ edit ] France [ edit ] Bray, Eure , in the Eure département Bray, Saône-et-Loire , in the Saône-et-Loire département Bray-Dunes , in the Nord département Bray-en-Val , in the Loiret département Bray-et-Lû , in
60-572: A Chicago – Detroit branch for creating films for the auto industry, Bray's largest private client. The 1919 move from Paramount to Goldwyn also included a re-incorporation of the studio, now called Bray Pictures Corporation. The studio was putting out more than three reels of screen magazines per week, as well as educational and training films. Bray Pictures also made the first cartoon made in color, The Debut of Thomas Cat , shot in Brewster Color and released on February 8, 1920 (although some claim
90-664: A hill just south of Bray, Wicklow Bray Head, Kerry, a hill on Valentia Island , County Kerry Bray Lower, a townland of County Kildare Bray Upper, a townland of County Kildare United Kingdom [ edit ] Bray, Berkshire , a village near Maidenhead Bray Shop , a village in Cornwall River Bray United States [ edit ] Bray Place , a 1796 home and farmstead, Louisville, Kentucky Bray Township, Pennington County, Minnesota Brays, Missouri Bray, Oklahoma Other places [ edit ] Bray, South Australia ,
120-741: A locality In Australia Bray, Wallonia , a village in the municipality of Binche , Belgium Bray, Botswana , a village in Kgalagadi District, Botswana Bray, North West , a village in the North West province of South Africa Bray Island , a Canadian Arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada People [ edit ] Bray (surname) Bray (musician) (born 1972), American musician and singer-songwriter Bray Hubbard , American football player Bray Wyatt (1987–2023), American professional wrestler Other uses [ edit ] 5182 Bray ,
150-525: A minor planet Bray Castle , former name of Lewes Castle, Lewes, East Sussex, England Bray People , a tabloid published in Northern Ireland Bray Productions , an American animation studio Bray Magazine (1922–1923), a theatrical cartoon series Bray Studios (UK) , British film studio Bray Unknowns F.C. , an Irish association football club Bray Wanderers A.F.C. , an Irish league football (soccer) club Braying ,
180-449: A minor planet Bray Castle , former name of Lewes Castle, Lewes, East Sussex, England Bray People , a tabloid published in Northern Ireland Bray Productions , an American animation studio Bray Magazine (1922–1923), a theatrical cartoon series Bray Studios (UK) , British film studio Bray Unknowns F.C. , an Irish association football club Bray Wanderers A.F.C. , an Irish league football (soccer) club Braying ,
210-460: A village in Kgalagadi District, Botswana Bray, North West , a village in the North West province of South Africa Bray Island , a Canadian Arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada People [ edit ] Bray (surname) Bray (musician) (born 1972), American musician and singer-songwriter Bray Hubbard , American football player Bray Wyatt (1987–2023), American professional wrestler Other uses [ edit ] 5182 Bray ,
240-454: A village near Maidenhead Bray Shop , a village in Cornwall River Bray United States [ edit ] Bray Place , a 1796 home and farmstead, Louisville, Kentucky Bray Township, Pennington County, Minnesota Brays, Missouri Bray, Oklahoma Other places [ edit ] Bray, South Australia , a locality In Australia Bray, Wallonia , a village in the municipality of Binche , Belgium Bray, Botswana ,
270-516: A watershed in Normandy Ireland [ edit ] Bray, County Wicklow Bray Daly railway station Bray Male School , former name of Saint Cronan's Boys' National School Bray Head , a hill just south of Bray, Wicklow Bray Head, Kerry, a hill on Valentia Island , County Kerry Bray Lower, a townland of County Kildare Bray Upper, a townland of County Kildare United Kingdom [ edit ] Bray, Berkshire ,
300-461: A week for use of the "screen magazines" (a one-reel collection of live-action didactic pieces and travelogs in addition to the cartoon, that was played before the feature). Bray started with Pathé as his distributor, switched to Paramount in 1916, and then switched to Goldwyn Pictures in 1919. Of the units, one produced his Colonel Heeza Liar , one produced Hurd's Bobby Bumps , and one produced non-series cartoons, usually topical commentaries on
330-403: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bray [REDACTED] Look up Bray or bray in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bray may refer to: Places [ edit ] France [ edit ] Bray, Eure , in the Eure département Bray, Saône-et-Loire , in
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#1732843993353360-540: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bray Productions Bray Productions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons during the years of World War I and the early interwar era , becoming a springboard for several key animators of the 20th century, including the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, Paul Terry, Shamus Culhane and Grim Natwick among others. The studio
390-415: The U.S. Army . These did so well that after the war, Bray was swamped with orders from the government and big business to make films for them. Over a period of years, Bray moved the focus of his company from entertainment to education, putting Leventhal and E. Dean Parmelee in charge of the technical department. Dr. Rowland Rogers became educational director, while Jamison "Jam" Handy was put in charge of
420-430: The 1920s until it closed in 1963. The Jam Handy Organization began life as a subsidiary of Bray Studios to fulfill its business contracts, making several thousand industrial and sponsored films and tens of thousands of filmstrips, mostly for the automobile industry, as an independent entity from 1928 until 1983. Max Fleischer, after being ousted from his own studio in the early 1940s, worked for Handy and later on Brayco in
450-539: The IFS series, which included Jerry on the Job films adapted from Walter Hoban 's comic strip. Many staff members of the former studio transferred to Bray, and most of the new cartoons were directed by the same man who directed them for IFS, Gregory La Cava . Bray's goal was to have four units working on four cartoons at any one time; since it took a month to complete a film, four units with staggered schedules produced one cartoon
480-600: The Saône-et-Loire département Bray-Dunes , in the Nord département Bray-en-Val , in the Loiret département Bray-et-Lû , in the Val-d'Oise département Bray-lès-Mareuil , in the Somme département Bray-Saint-Christophe , in the Aisne département Bray-sur-Seine , in the Seine-et-Marne département Bray-sur-Somme , in the Somme département Pays de Bray ,
510-464: The Val-d'Oise département Bray-lès-Mareuil , in the Somme département Bray-Saint-Christophe , in the Aisne département Bray-sur-Seine , in the Seine-et-Marne département Bray-sur-Somme , in the Somme département Pays de Bray , a watershed in Normandy Ireland [ edit ] Bray, County Wicklow Bray Daly railway station Bray Male School , former name of Saint Cronan's Boys' National School Bray Head ,
540-410: The beginning of the company. The year 1915 brought Earl Hurd and Paul Terry ; the former became J. R. Bray's business partner and directed Bobby Bumps , the latter was employed under duress and directed Farmer Al Falfa . The brothers Max and Dave Fleischer joined in 1916. In 1918, the rival International Film Service studio folded and owner William Randolph Hearst licensed Bray to continue
570-655: The call of a donkey USS Bray (DE-709) , a destroyer escort of the United States Navy See also [ edit ] Brae , a village on the island of Mainland in Shetland, Scotland Bray House (disambiguation) Bray Park (disambiguation) Braye (disambiguation) Brey (disambiguation) De Bray (disambiguation) People v. Bray , a 1975 case decided by the California Court of Appeal Vicar of Bray (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
600-480: The call of a donkey USS Bray (DE-709) , a destroyer escort of the United States Navy See also [ edit ] Brae , a village on the island of Mainland in Shetland, Scotland Bray House (disambiguation) Bray Park (disambiguation) Braye (disambiguation) Brey (disambiguation) De Bray (disambiguation) People v. Bray , a 1975 case decided by the California Court of Appeal Vicar of Bray (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
630-536: The company was streamlined to work more like Goldwyn Picture Corporation , with two cartoons released a week, which meant a much bigger workload than most were willing to take. The result was a massive exodus of talent, including Max Fleischer and even Earl Hurd, which also led to an increasingly poor output which led Goldwyn to drop Bray Pictures. In the wake of this setback, Vernon Stallings took over as Bray's entertainment production supervisor, being replaced by Walter Lantz by 1924. Stallings directed Krazy Kat and
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#1732843993353660-608: The first animated short was the British In Gollywog Land , a stop motion /live-action hybrid shot in Kinemacolor and made in 1912 or the animation/live-action hybrid Pinto's Prizma Comedy Revue made by Pinto Colvig in 1919 and shot in the Prizma process) and was apparently involved in an unnamed sound-on-film cartoon by Walt Lantz (co-producer/director) and Hugo Riesenfeld (composer) in 1927 for Movietone , in between
690-465: The king of two-reel comedy, with the disastrous series "The McDougall Alley Kids". When this adventure failed, he slipped out of the business. Meanwhile, Walter Lantz practically became a full-fledged producer as head of the cartoon division, with some trade publications referring to the studio as "Lantz-Bray" by the time the entertainment branch of Bray Pictures Corporation closed in 1928. The educational/commercial branch, Brayco, made mostly filmstrips from
720-666: The news directed by Leighton Budd, J. D. Leventhal, and others. The fourth unit was the one that kept changing hands. It produced Terry's Farmer Al Falfa in 1916, until Terry left a year later, and the Farmer went with him. It then produced Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell until 1921, when Fleischer left, taking Koko the Clown with him. The influx of IFS series at the same time broke up the four-unit system — in 1920 there were ten series going simultaneously, with Heeza Liar in hiatus from 1917. Bray
750-524: The releases of Don Juan and The Jazz Singer and coincidentally shortly before Bray Pictures' demise. The expenses quickly outweighed the revenue, and in January 1920, Samuel Goldwyn bought a controlling interest in Bray Pictures and ordered a massive reorganization. Max Fleischer and J. D. Leventhal became supervising directors of the entertainment and technical branches of the studio respectively, and
780-426: The revival of Heeza Liar , while Lantz directed Dinky Doodle . Among the big names who passed through the studio were Wallace Carlson , Milt Gross , Frank Moser , Burt Gillett , Grim Natwick , Raoul Barré , Pat Sullivan , Jack King , David Hand , Clyde Geronimi and Shamus Culhane . J.R. Bray paid little attention to the animation side of things during the 1920s, focusing instead on beating Hal Roach as
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870-498: Was constantly looking to expand his studio. He financed the semi-independent studio of C. Allen Gilbert to create a series of serious Silhouette Fantasies on classical themes (he actually did some of the animation work for this series). In 1917 he bought out his distributor's screen magazine to produce one of his own, moving him into the realm of live-action shorts producer. During World War I, he assigned Leventhal and Max Fleischer's units to create training and educational cartoons for
900-414: Was founded sometime before 1912 by John Randolph Bray . It was perhaps one of the first studios entirely devoted to serial animation at the time instead of one-off experiments. Its first series was Bray's Colonel Heeza Liar , but from the beginning, the studio brought in outsiders to direct promising new series. Carl Anderson , later known for the comic strip Henry , directed The Police Dog from
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