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"Bluebirds In The Moonlight"-1939-Famous Music. This song is featured in the 1939 animated Max Fleischer Movie-"Gulliver's Travels". The front of the sheet music features original animated scenes from the movie.Austrian-born cartoonist/animator Max Fleischer moved to the U.S. with his family at age four. He initially studied to be a mechanic, but chose instead a career in art, beginning with a photo-engraving job on the Brooklyn Eagle. While working at Popular Science Monthly, Fleischer developed an interest in the burgeoning field of animation. Together with his younger brother Dave, Fleischer began producing instructional cartoons for the Army in 1915; during this period, the Fleischer brothers developed and patented the Rotoscope process, wherein live-action films are traced frame-by-frame onto animation cells. With Dave working as his live model, Max inaugurated his own cartoon series, officially titled "Out of the Inkwell" but more popularly known as "Koko the Clown." These short cartoons ingeniously (and sometimes brilliantly) combined animation with live action, usually in the form of an on-screen Max Fleischer wielding his pen to "create" Ko-Ko before our eyes. A second series of Fleischer cartoons encouraged the theatre audience to sing along with the printed lyrics of popular tunes by "following the bouncing ball;" this series would yield an experimental 1925 sound cartoon, Sweet Adeline. When talking pictures were permanently established in 1929, Fleischer began releasing his product through Paramount pictures, an association which lasted for 13 years. Maxs 1930s cartoon output included such "stars" as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor and such portmanteau animated series as Color Classics. Fleischer was at his best with grotesquely designed characters and wild nonsequitur sight gags; he was at his worst when trying to emulate Walt Disney. A bitter strike in 1937 prompted the Fleischer brothers to move their studios from New York to Florida. It was down among the sheltering palms that Max and Dave produced their first feature-length cartoon, Gulliver's Travels (1939), at the command of Paramount, which wanted a success commensurate to Disney's Snow White (1938). Plagued by inconsistent animation and unappealing characters, Gulliver's Travels was an artistic disappointment, though it posted enough of a profit to encourage Fleischer's next feature cartoon, Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941); this one died at the box office, irreparably damaging the relationship between Fleischer and Paramount. The sheet music has been autographed on the front cover by Max Fleischer in red fountain pen................
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