Bray Productions

"Bray Studios" redirects here. For the UK studios, see Bray Film Studios.
Bray Productions
Company typeAnimation
IndustryMotion pictures
PredecessorEmile Cohl Pictures
Founded1912; 112 years ago (1912)
FounderJohn Randolph Bray
Defunct1928; 96 years ago (1928)
FateBankruptcy
SuccessorWalter Lantz Productions
Bolivar Productions
Out of the Inkwell Studios
Headquarters
New York
,
United States
Key people
John Randolph Bray
Earl Hurd
Paul Terry
Max Fleischer
Dave Fleischer
Walter Lantz
OwnerJohn Randolph Bray

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,[1][2][3] 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.

  1. ^ Donald Crafton; Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928; University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11667-0 (2nd edition, paperback, 1993)
  2. ^ Denis Gifford; American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897–1929; McFarland & Company; ISBN 0-89950-460-4 (library binding, 1990)
  3. ^ Leonard Maltin; Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Penguin Books; ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (1980, 1987)