Williams, Richard

Japanese: ウィリアムズ,Richard - うぃりあむず
Williams, Richard

Other successful animated feature films include Animal Farm (1954), an animated adaptation of George Orwell's satirical novel by John Halasz and his wife Joy Batchelor, who said, "There's no need to be bound by any particular style. You can choose according to the theme of the work." Other successful animated feature films include The Little Island (1958), a medium-length film made by Canadian Richard Williams, a former member of UPA (who would later create the title animation for Blake Edwards' Pink Panther film series), who spent three years creating it after settling in England. George Dunning's Yellow Submarine (1967), a pop art film featuring The Beatles as cartoon characters and voice acting. Later, Martin Rosen's Watership Down (1978), which had a "storybook-like" image that was different from the animal characters in Disney cartoons, and other successful feature-length animated films.
[Socialist countries]
Socialist countries such as the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, and China had state-run studios and continued to produce films with the aim of educating the people ideologically and educating children emotionally.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,〈何も固有のスタイルにとらわれることはない。その作品のテーマに応じて選択すればよいのだ〉というジョン・ハラスとその夫人のジョイ・バチェラーが,ジョージ・オーウェルの風刺小説をアニメ化した《動物農場》(1954),UPA出身のカナダ人リチャード・ウィリアムズ(のちにブレーク・エドワーズ監督の劇映画《ピンク・パンサー》シリーズのタイトル・アニメを手がける)が,イギリスに定住して3年がかりで作った中編《小さな島》(1958),ザ・ビートルズを漫画的キャラクターおよび声の出演で登場させたポップ・アート的なジョージ・ダニングの《イェロー・サブマリン》(1967)などがあり,その後もディズニー漫画の動物キャラクターとは異なる,〈絵本的な〉イメージによるマーティン・ローゼンの《ウォーターシップダウンのうさぎたち》(1978)等々の劇場用長編アニメの成功作がある。
[社会主義国]
 ソ連,ポーランド,チェコスロバキア,ユーゴスラビア,ハンガリー,ルーマニア,ブルガリア,東ドイツ,中国などの社会主義国では,国営スタジオをもち,国民の思想教育,児童の情操教育を前提として製作を続けてきた。…

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