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Frank Tashlin (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director. He was also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash. ==Animator and brief career as cartoonist== Tashlin drifted from job to job after dropping out of high school in New Jersey at age 13. In 1930, he started working for Paul Terry as a cartoonist on the ''Aesop's Film Fables'' cartoon series, then worked briefly for Amadee J. Van Beuren, but he was just as much a drifter in his animation career as he had been as a teenager. Tashlin joined Leon Schlesinger's cartoon studio at Warner Bros. as an animator in 1933, where he was noted as a fast animator. He used his free time to start his own comic strip in 1934 called ''Van Boring'', inspired by former boss Van Beuren, which ran for three years.〔For examples, see http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2008/09/obscurity-of-day-van-boring.html〕〔Facebook fan page – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Van-Boring-He-Never-Says-a-Word/108739165850755〕 He signed his comic strip "Tish Tash," and used the same name for his cartoon credits (at the time it was considered extremely unprofessional to use anything except one's birth name among animators, but Tashlin was able to get away with this due to the anti-Germanic feelings of that era). Tashlin was fired from the studio when he refused to give Schlesinger a cut of his comic strip revenues. He joined the Ub Iwerks studio in 1934. He moved to Hal Roach's studio in 1935 as a writer. He returned to Schlesinger in 1936 as an animation director, where his diverse interest and knowledge of the industry brought a new understanding of camerawork to the Warners directors.''"He used all different kinds of camera angles, montages, and pan shots,vertical and horizontal.''"〔Sigall (2005), p. 71〕 He directed 16 or 17 shorts from 1936 to 1938. He was making 150 dollars a week. At one point he had an argument with studio manager Henry Binder and resigned. In 1938, he worked for Disney in the story department. He only made 50 dollars a week.〔Sigall (2005), p. 71〕 Afterward, he served as production manager at Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems animation studio in 1941. He effectively ran the studio and hired many former Disney staffers who had left as a result of the Disney animators' strike. He launched The Fox and the Crow series, one of the better products of the studio. He was fired over an argument with the executives of Columbia.〔Sigall (2005), p. 71-72〕 Tashlin rejoined the Warner directors of "Termite Terrace" in 1943.〔Sigall (2005), p. 71-72〕 One of his directorial efforts was ''Porky Pig's Feat''.〔Sigall (2005), p. 71-72〕 He stayed with the studio during World War II and worked on numerous wartime shorts, including the ''Private Snafu'' educational films. Shortly after he left Warner Bros. in September 1946, he directed some stop-motion puppet films for John Sutherland.〔http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Tashlin/tashlin_interview.htm〕 Robert McKimson took over his Warner's unit. His only Bugs Bunny shorts were ''The Unruly Hare'' and ''Hare Remover''. The latter was also his last credit at Warner Bros.〔Sigall (2005), p. 73〕 Martha Sigall described him as "Here today, gone tomorrow. Now you see him, now you don't. That was Frank Tashlin, who would be working at Leon Schlesinger's one day, and, suddenly, gone the next day." 〔Sigall (2005), p. 70〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Tashlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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