Tossup
A producer with this surname slowed production of his studio’s first feature film by moving operations to Miami during a strike. In a film by a director with this surname, a character falls into a manhole to a dungeon where masked men ask “wanna be a member?” A ghost sings “St. James Infirmary Blues” over a coffin of ice in one of three films with Cab Calloway by a director with this name. Paramount distributed a Gulliver’s Travels film by a pair with this name who invented the singalong “bouncing ball” as well as the (*) rotoscope. A studio with this name used a surreal “East Coast Style” for films about Bimbo and Koko the Clown. For 10 points, give this surname of Max and Dave, whose animation studio created Betty Boop and Popeye. ■END■
ANSWER: Fleischer [accept Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer, or Dave Fleischer] (The clued films are Gulliver’s Travels, Bimbo’s Initiation, and Snow White.)
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