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Bob Kuwahara

Visual Effects

Biography

From Wikipedia: Japanese-born American animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s. Kuwahara was born in Tokyo on August 12, 1901, and his family moved to the United States in 1910, where he graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1921. After high school he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles until 1928. In 1929 Kuwahara moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist, but the stock market crash later that year forced him to return to Los Angeles. In 1932 Kuwahara began working as an animator and writer for Walt Disney, where he had a hand in shorts like Thru the Mirror and the Academy Award-nominated Who Killed Cock Robin?, as well as the feature-length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 1937 Kuwahara went to work for MGM, but later spent three years in the Heart Mountain internment camp during World War II. In 1945 Kuwahara and his family moved to Larchmont, New York where he wrote and drew a comic strip called Miki for five years before low circulation forced him to drop the strip. In 1950 Kuwahara returned to animation, signing on with Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio, and stayed with the studio following CBS' purchase of the studio in 1955. In 1959 Kuwahara wrote and directed the first of 14 Hashimoto-san theatrical shorts, for which he is probably best remembered today. Production of these shorts continued until 1963, after which time they were incorporated into CBS' The Hector Heathcote Show. During the same period Kuwahara was also a director for the popular Deputy Dawg series. Kuwahara's final TV series was 1965's syndicated The Astronut Show.

Known For

Thru the Mirror
7.2

Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.

Thru the Mirror

1936
Three Little Wolves
6.5

Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.

Three Little Wolves

1936
Toby Tortoise Returns
6.2

Toby Tortoise is back, and this time he and Max Hare box instead of racing.

Toby Tortoise Returns

1936
The Hot Choc-late Soldiers
5.4

A group of confectionary soldiers go to war against a neighboring cookie castle.

The Hot Choc-late Soldiers

1934
Father Noah's Ark
6.1

Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not that anyone was particularly looking for them), but they manage to swim to it. After the rain and many lamentations by the humans, the sun returns, to the great joy of all. The ground appears, and the animals (and many new babies) disembark.

Father Noah's Ark

1933
Lullaby Land
6.4

A baby is transported to Lullaby Land, where pacifiers grow on trees, diapers, bottles, and potty chairs march on parade, and the gingham dog comes to life. He wanders into the "keep out" cave, full of things like scissors, knives, and fountain pens that are not for baby and begins smashing watches with hammers and playing with giant matches. The matches chase after him; baby escapes by riding a bar of soap across a pond, but the smoke from the matches turns into boogey-men. The benevolent sandman, dressed as a wizard, spots baby hiding and works his magic, bringing us back to the real nursery.

Lullaby Land

1933
Gaston Is Here
8.0

Gaston Le Crayon is a French (kind of beatnik-looking) artist who brings his artwork to life. He's doing a famous painting to be. Movie director Alfred Fitchcock moves in next door. Fitchcock is making a movie about a man stranded in the frozen Arctic. Gaston takes it seriously. He paints a toaster, stuffs the freezing man in it, and pops him out like a piece of toast. Gaston thinks that he's doing a good deed. Fitchcock is furious.

Gaston Is Here

1957
Mickey's Steam Roller
6.5

While streetworker Mickey romances Minnie, Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie take control of his steamroller and it's full speed ahead on a very destructive ride.

Mickey's Steam Roller

1934
Jitterbug Follies
4.8

Two thugs from The Citizens' Fair Play Committee arrive to see that Screwloose's amateur talent show is run on the level.

Jitterbug Follies

1939
More Kittens
5.7

Thrown out of the house into the backyard, the three kittens are sheltered by a giant Saint Bernard and are tormented by a turtle and a bluebird.

More Kittens

1936
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8.0

Deputy Dawg tries to prevent a troublemaking Native American chief from stealing from the Henhouse, the Watermelon Patch and the Priceless Persimmon Tree. Big Chief No Treaty also catches fish without a license. When he captures Big Chief No Treaty, the sheriff orders the chief set free so that a peace treaty can be signed between the chief and the town council. Muskie and Vince decide to steal more eggs from the henhouse disguised as Big Chief No Treaty.

Big Chief No Treaty

1962
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7.0

A Hashimoto cartoon.

Tea House Mouse

1963
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7.0

In this Cinemascope Terrytoon, Spoofy is a zany little fox that comes to life on the animator's drawing board and subdues a western gunslinger with trick props and gadgets.

Gag Buster

1957
Foofle's Train Ride
10.0

In this Terrytoon,Foofle goes on a tour-train guided-excursion. But, par for his usual course, he screws everything up from the schedule to the baggage.

Foofle's Train Ride

1959
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9.0

When a 40-foot giant comes to a small village and begins smashing houses with his fist, the mice call on Hashimoto for help.

Spooky-Yaki

1963
Gaston's Baby
8.0

A rich woman on her way to a costume party thinks Gaston is a babysitter; Gaston thinks he's there to paint her child's picture. Gaston mistakes her husband, in costume, for the child, and takes extreme measures to make him sit still for his portrait.

Gaston's Baby

1958
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10.0

Heckle and Jeckle's New Year's resolution is to refrain from any more practical jokes, but their attempts at good deeds meet with more hostility than their annoying gags.

Sappy New Year

1961
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7.5

The boys wake Deputy Dawg up: the tool shed's on fire. It burns before they can put it out. Then the city hall burns, too. The Sheriff warns Deputy: Form a new fire department made up of volunteers, or you will be out of a job.

Where There's Smoke

1962
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7.0

A Hashimoto cartoon.

Cherry Blossom Festival

1963
Topsy TV
7.0

Entry in the John Doormat series of shorts.

Topsy TV

1957