Pal fled to Prague, and where he was known as an animator, special effect designer, and producer and then Paris where he opened his own animation studio.

This sparked Pal’s interest in animation and his studies served him well when he went to work at a silent film company where he became the head of the cartoon department.īy 1933, fascism was on the rise and the Nazi regime was spreading its influence in Europe. Limited job opportunities encouraged Pal to further his interest in human anatomy, and he attended a local medical school where he studied kinetic motion-the energy of motion and the interrelationships between moving parts. George Paul (1908-1980) nee George Marczincsak, was born in Austria Hungary and educated at the Budapest Academy of Arts where he studied architecture. Pal was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1944 for 'the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons'. For each frame shot, the head, arms, and legs of the figures were changed according to the motions needed to create the illusion of movement. George Pal was one of the pioneers of stop-frame animation, a painstaking process achieved by moving figures and shooting each change on a single frame of motion picture film in a series of progressive steps. The film received an Academy Award nomination. Tubby is made of gold painted plaster and sits along side his friend the bull frog, who is made of plastic. He is allowed only one 'Oom-Pah' note during the performance, but with encouragement from his friend the Bull Frog, Tubby finally gets his own solo like all of the other instruments. In this animated short film Tubby the Tuba is part of an orchestral ensemble that includes a double bass, a clarinet, a flute, a bassoon, a trumpet, a trombone, a French horn, an oboe, a piccolo, a xylophone, cymbals, a piano, cow bells, and kettle drums. These two figures, Tubby the Tuba and his friend the Bull Frog, were made by George Pal for the 1947 Puppetoon production of Tubby the Tuba.

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