If Module 2 was focused on Disney, then Module 3 was focused on all of the smaller studios that the likes of Disney dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. Dave and Max Fleischer were among the most progressive animators of the 1920s and 1930s. Dave created the rotoscope, which allowed him to animate over live action footage, allowing him to make some fairly detailed characters. The Fleischer brothers later created the Fleischer Studios, which never became as big as Disney, but had some fairly revolutionary output especially in the characters of Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, and eventually Superman. They even released a full length animated feature only two years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Alas, they eventually faded away in the 1940s, giving away to two other studios that never hit it big but had some popular characters: Terrytoons with Mighty Mouse, and Universal/Walter Lantz Studios with Woody the Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Chilly Willy.
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