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Richard Fleischer vii Contents Foreword ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 1 1 1 1 10 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 They say that it’s difficult being a famous man’s son . . . 1 Two years after joining the Brooklyn Daily Eagle . . . 9 If ever a job was tailor-made for anyone . . . 13 Brimming with pride and high hopes, Max . . . 23 Late in 1920, the Bray organization . . . 31 There were three movie “palaces” in midtown . . . 39 Taking a page from his former employer . . . 45 The addition of sound to the Fleischer cartoons . . . 49 Clearly, Max was riding the crest of a wave . . . 53 The fortunes of the Fleischer family . . . 59 Several times during the writing of these pages . . . 63 Although this book is primarily about Max . . . 77 Fleischer Studios prospered . . . 83 Because of Max and Dave’s personalities . . . 87 Max was a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker . . . 93 viii Foreword 16 16 16 16 16 1 1 1 1 17 7 7 7 7 18 18 18 18 18 1 1 1 1 19 9 9 9 9 2 2 2 2 20 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 21 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 22 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 23 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 24 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 2 25 5 5 5 5 2 2 2 2 26 6 6 6 6 2 2 2 2 27 7 7 7 7 2 2 2 2 28 8 8 8 8 Index 173 Illustrations follow page 82 viii Contents Work at the New York studio continued . . . 97 Paramount insisted on a Christmas release date . . . 101 The studio’s move from New York to Miami . . . 107 Max opened the contract, read the first paragraph . . . 113 After the initial shock of the Paramount takeover . . . 119 Almost before the news of the studio’s sudden . . . 125 It seems that Max’s aim in life was to be . . . 131 Leonard Miltonberg ran a company in . . . 141 He wrote myriad and lengthy memos . . . 147 The lawsuit against Paramount et al. . . . 151 The whole thing was incomprehensible to me . . . 155 The article concerned a new copyright law . . . 163 The year 1972 turned out to be . . . 169 ...

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