American Pop

Ralph Bakshi

1981

Drawing of man wearing hat with swatsika shooting a gun at a figure who is mostly obscured behind a wall, with crashed plane and ruins in background. — Ralph Bakshi’s *American Pop* is an animated musical that chronicles the history of American popular music through the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians. To make the film, Bakshi used the technique of rotoscoping, in which scenes are filmed with live actors and then traced over by animators who turn the footage into cartoons.

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Ralph Bakshi

b. 1938

Born in Haifa, Ralph Bakshi came to the United States as a child, where he grew up in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. Bakshi is a director and screenwriter of animated films and television series, as well as a painter. In his early career, he worked for the Terrytoons Animation Studio and later for Paramount Cartoon Studios. His films and television productions, including Lord of the Rings, Fritz the Cat, and Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, are often controversial. Bakshi received the ACT Achievement in Children’s Television Award in 1988.

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