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George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historical Development )〕 February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe. He was nominated for Academy Awards (in the category Best short subjects, Cartoon) for seven consecutive years (1942–1948) and received an honorary award in 1944. This makes him the second most nominated Hungarian exile (together with William S. Darling and Ernest Laszlo) after Miklós Rózsa. ==Early life and career== He was born in Cegléd, Austria–Hungary, the son of György Pál Marczincsak Sr. and his wife Maria. He graduated from the Budapest Academy of Arts in 1928 (aged 20). From 1928 to 1931, he made films for Hunnia Films of Budapest, Hungary. At the age of 23 in 1931 he married Elisabeth "Zsoka" Grandjean, and moving to Berlin, founded Trickfilm-Studio Gmbh Pal und Wittke, with UFA Studios as its main customer from 1931 to 1933. During this time, he patented the Pal-Doll technique (known as ''Puppetoons'' in the USA). In 1933 he worked in Prague; in 1934, he made a film advertisement in his hotel room in Paris, and was invited by Philips to make two more ad shorts. He started to use Pal-Doll techniques in Eindhoven, in a former butchery, then at villa-studio Suny Home. He left Germany as the Nazis came to power. He made five films before 1939 for the British company Horlicks Malted Milk. In December of that year, aged 32, he emigrated from Europe to the United States,〔Pal, his wife and son, were second cabin passengers on the S.S. ''Statendam'' which arrived at the Port of New York from the Netherlands on December 3, 1939.〕 and began work for Paramount Pictures. At this time, his friend Walter Lantz helped him obtain American citizenship. As an animator, he made the ''Puppetoons'' series in the 1940s, which led to him being awarded an honorary Oscar in 1943 for "the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons". Pal then switched to live action film making with ''The Great Rupert'' (1950). He is best remembered as the producer of several science fiction and fantasy films in the 1950s such as ''When Worlds Collide''〔(The New York Times )〕 and 1960s, four of which were collaborations with director Byron Haskin including ''The War of the Worlds'' (1953). He himself directed ''tom thumb'' (1958), ''The Time Machine'' (1960) and ''The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' (1962). 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「George Pal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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