Round 11: Tossup 10

In the frame story of a film about this sort of character, a flat tire leads to the director’s bet with the creator of Maggie and Jiggs, George McManus. The director of a film about this sort of character created it after being accused of copying photographs for his film How a Mosquito Operates. For a film about these characters that had the first theatrical release with DTS sound, Gary Rydstrom mixed his friend’s rasp with those of a walrus, dog, horse, and goose. A viral 2000s meme featured the text “you had one job!” under text crediting the director of Mad God, (*) Phil Tippett, as a “supervisor” of these characters, (10[1])in which capacity he worked with Jack Horner. Thousands of hand-drawn frames comprise Winsor McCay’s 1914 stop-motion film about one of these characters called “Gertie.” (10[2])One of these characters is on the poster of the 1925 film The Lost World. For 10 points, Stan Winston’s 20-foot-tall animatronic of one of what characters was nicknamed “Rexy?” ■END■

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