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George Pal

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George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science-fiction genres. [1]

59 relations: Academy Awards, Academy Film Archive, Academy Honorary Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Animator, Arnold Leibovit, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Austria-Hungary, Beverly Hills, California, Budapest, Byron Haskin, Cegléd, Conquest of Space, Destination Moon (film), Doc Savage, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, Eindhoven, Ernest Laszlo, Fantasy film, Gail Morgan Hickman, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Horlicks, Houdini (film), Hungary, John Henry and the Inky-Poo, Library of Congress, Logan's Run, Los Angeles, Miklós Rózsa, Myocardial infarction, National Museum of American History, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Puppetoons, Science fiction, Science fiction film, Science Fiction/Double Feature, Smithsonian Institution, The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal, The Great Rupert, The Naked Jungle, The Power (film), The Puppetoon Movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Rocky Horror Show, The Sleeper Awakes, The Time Machine (1960 film), The War of the Worlds (1953 film), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ..., The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Tom Thumb (film), Tubby the Tuba (1947 film), UFA GmbH, Walter Lantz, War of the Worlds (TV series), When Worlds Collide (1951 film), William S. Darling, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. Expand index (9 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Academy Film Archive

The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.

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Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Animator

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence.

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Arnold Leibovit

Arnold Leibovit (born June 18, 1950) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter of feature films and musical productions.

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Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Atlantis, the Lost Continent is a 1961 American science fiction film in Metrocolor from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by George Pal, that stars Sal Ponti (under the screen name of Anthony Hall), Joyce Taylor, and John Dall.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or Transleithania) that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

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Byron Haskin

Byron Conrad Haskin (April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984) was an American film and television director.

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Cegléd

Cegléd (Zieglet) is a city in Pest county, Hungary, approximately southeast of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

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Conquest of Space

Conquest of Space is a 1955 American Technicolor science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, and Mickey Shaughnessy.

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Destination Moon (film)

Destination Moon (a.k.a. Operation Moon) is a 1950 American Technicolor space exploration science fiction film drama, independently made by George Pal, directed by Irving Pichel, that stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers and Dick Wesson.

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Doc Savage

Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze is a 1975 American action film starring Ron Ely as pulp hero Doc Savage.

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Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and city in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams.

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Ernest Laszlo

Ernest Laszlo, A.S.C. (born Ernő László, April 23, 1898 – January 6, 1984) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer for over 60 films, and was known for his frequent collaborations with directors Robert Aldrich and Stanley Kramer.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Gail Morgan Hickman

Gail Morgan Hickman (born December 14, 1953) is an American producer and writer of film and television.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City

Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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Horlicks

Horlicks is a malted milk hot drink developed by founders James & William Horlick.

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Houdini (film)

Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and his then-wife Janet Leigh.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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John Henry and the Inky-Poo

John Henry and the Inky-Poo is a 1946 short animation film written and directed by George Pal using Pal's Puppetoons stop-motion style.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Logan's Run

Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Miklós Rózsa

Miklós Rózsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931), and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips, stylized as PHILIPS) is a Dutch multinational technology company headquartered in Amsterdam currently focused in the area of healthcare.

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Puppetoons

George Pal's Puppetoons were a series of animated puppet films made in Europe in the 1930s and in the United States in the 1940s.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Science Fiction/Double Feature

"Science Fiction/Double Feature" is the opening song to the original 1973 musical stage production, The Rocky Horror Show as well as its 1975 film counterpart The Rocky Horror Picture Show, book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, musical arrangements by Richard Hartley.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal is a 1985 American documentary film about Academy Award winning producer/director George Pal.

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The Great Rupert

The Great Rupert, is a 1950 comedy family film, produced by George Pal, directed by Irving Pichel and starring Jimmy Durante, Tom Drake and Terry Moore.

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The Naked Jungle

The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker.

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The Power (film)

The Power is a 1968 American science fiction thriller film from MGM, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin (his final film), that stars George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette.

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The Puppetoon Movie

The Puppetoon Movie is a 1987 animated film written, produced, and directed by Arnold Leibovit.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical science-fiction horror-comedy film by 20th Century Fox produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman.

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The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.

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The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.

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The Time Machine (1960 film)

The Time Machine (also known promotionally as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American science fiction film in Metrocolor from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by George Pal, that stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young.

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The War of the Worlds (1953 film)

The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American Technicolor science fiction drama film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900.

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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 American film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal.

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Tom Thumb (film)

Tom Thumb (stylised as tom thumb) is a 1958 fantasy-musical film directed by George Pal and released by MGM.

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Tubby the Tuba (1947 film)

Tubby the Tuba is a 1947 American animated short film from Paramount Pictures, directed by George Pal as part of his Puppetoon series.

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UFA GmbH

UFA GmbH is a German film and television production company that unites all production activities of Bertelsmann in Germany.

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Walter Lantz

Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, director and actor best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

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War of the Worlds (TV series)

War of the Worlds is a Canadian/American science-fiction television series that ran for two seasons, from October 7, 1988 to May 14, 1990.

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When Worlds Collide (1951 film)

When Worlds Collide is a 1951 American Technicolor science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Rudolph Maté, that stars Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, and John Hoyt.

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William S. Darling

William S. Darling (14 September 1882 – 15 December 1963) was a Hungarian-born art director who is an inductee of the American Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.

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7 Faces of Dr. Lao

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pal

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