Hicks Lokey
Visual Effects
Biography
William "Hicks" Lokey (April 5, 1904 – November 4, 1990) was an American animator. He is best known for his work at Fleischer Studios. Lokey spent his early years in the animation industry at Van Beuren Studios, animating Aesop's Film Fables during the 1920s. Starting in 1934, he worked as an animator for Fleischer Studios. One of his first works there was the Betty Boop short There's Something About a Soldier. He was one of the senior animators who took part in the 1937 Fleischer Studios strike, hoping to negotiate wages and working hours with Max and Dave Fleischer. However, after the Fleischers threatened to reduce Lokey's and others pay, Lokey opted to return to work. After leaving Fleischers in 1938, Lokey joined the Walter Lantz Studio, where he worked until 1939. Lokey was hired by Walt Disney Productions the following year, where he provided character animation for the "Pink Elephants on Parade" segment in Dumbo and "The Dance of the Hours" in Fantasia. Lokey left the Disney studio in 1941 after joining several animators in the Disney animators' strike. He found employment at Hanna-Barbera in 1959, where he would remain for nearly thirty years. Lokey continued to animate, working on the television series Goober and the Ghost Chasers and The New Shmoo and the feature film The Man Called Flintstone (1966). Lokey retired in 1986. In 1990 Lokey received the Winsor McCay Award for his lifetime of work in the field of animation. [biography from Wikipedia]
Known For
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
Dumbo
Shazzan is an American animated television series, created by Alex Toth and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1967 for CBS. The series follows the adventures of two teenage siblings, Chuck and Nancy, traveling around a mystical Arabian world, mounted on Kaboobie the flying camel. During their journey they face several dangers, but they are always helped by Shazzan, a genie with magical powers out of this world. Shazzan is not to be confused with Shazam!, the 1970s comic book/television revival of Golden Age super hero Captain Marvel, created by C. C. Beck and Bill Parker.
Shazzan
In this feature-length film based on the "Flintstones" TV show, secret agent Rock Slag is injured during a chase in Bedrock. Slag's chief decides to replace the injured Slag with Fred Flintstone, who just happens to look like him. The trip takes Fred to Paris and Rome, which is good for Wilma, Barney, and Betty, but can Fred foil the mysterious Green Goose's evil plan for a destructive missile without letting his wife and friends in on his secret?
The Man Called Flintstone
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
Scooby Goes Hollywood
A delightful retelling of the classic fairytale by Hanna-Barbera, using live action and animation.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways.
You're Not Built That Way
Peterkin, a mischievous elf with mixed body parts, decides to see what would happen if he switched the eggs in the tree-maternity nests. What happens is that there are many surprised mothers, and just as many indignant fathers, when the eggs hatch and each family gets a hatching that resembles neither parent. All fly the, figuratively-speaking, coop and Peterkin is left to tend to all the young birds.
Scrambled Eggs
Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that "curiosity killed the cat."
Peeping Penguins
Betty brings home a cat as a playmate for her pet puppy, Pudgy. The cat manages to get Pudgy blamed for all his misbehaviour.
Taking the Blame
Betty Boop takes her stage act on the road, and plays in Japan to great acclaim.
A Language All My Own
Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge.
Judge for a Day
Betty encounters The Little King when, bored by the opera, he sneaks out to join in with her rodeo routine.
Betty Boop and the Little King
Snuffy Skunk, thrown out of his own birthday party, has to save his ungrateful guests by stinking away the flood waters from a burst dam.
Snuffy's Party
Singin' Sam of radio fame performs a musical version of the nursery rhyme with Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody newsreel.
This Little Piggie Went to Market
A song excerpted from the cartoon Once Upon a Time (tt2145827).