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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a ___MASK34___ American fantasy comedy crime film directed by Robert Zemeckis , produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts , and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S . Seaman . The film is based on Gary K . Wolf ' s 1981 novel " Who Censored Roger Rabbit ?" The film stars Bob Hoskins , Christopher Lloyd , Charles Fleischer , Stubby Kaye , and Joanna Cassidy . Combining live - action and animation , the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s in an alternative timeline where animated characters really exist . The story follows Eddie Valiant , a private detective who must exonerate " Toon " Roger Rabbit , who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman . In physics , sound is a vibration that propagates as a typically audible mechanical wave of pressure and displacement , through a transmission medium such as air or water . In physiology and psychology , sound is the " reception " of such waves and their " perception " by the brain . Humans can hear sound waves with frequencies between about ___MASK28___ Hz and ___MASK28___ kHz . Sound above ___MASK28___ kHz is ultrasound and below ___MASK28___ Hz is infrasound . Other animals have different hearing ranges . A production logo , vanity card , vanity plate , or vanity logo is a logo used by movie studios and television production companies to brand what they produce and to determine the production company and the distributor of a television show or film . Production logos are usually seen at the beginning of a theatrical movie or video game ( an " opening logo "), or at the end of a television program or TV movie ( a " closing logo "). Many production logos have become famous over the years , such as the 20th Century Fox ' s monument and searchlights , Paramount Pictures ' s mountain , Universal Studio ' s spinning globe , Warner Bros .' s shield , Columbia Pictures ' s personification of Columbia , MGM ' s Leo the Lion , and Walt Disney Pictures ' fantasy castle . Unlike logos for most other media , production logos can take advantage of motion and synchronized sound , and almost always do . An American Tail is a ___MASK81___ American animated musical adventure drama film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment . It tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz and his family as they emigrate from Russia to the United States for freedom . However , he gets lost and must find a way to reunite with them . It was released on November 21 , ___MASK81___ , to reviews that ranged from positive to mixed and was a box office hit , making it the highest - grossing non - Disney animated film at the time . The success of it , " The Land Before Time ", and Disney ' s " Who Framed Roger Rabbit ", as well as Bluth ' s departure from their partnership , prompted Steven Spielberg to establish his own animation studio , Amblimation , which would later become DreamWorks Animation after several of Amblimation ' s films weren ' t as successful as Spielberg had hoped . The company was acquired by Universal ' s parent company NBCUniversal for $ 3 . 8 billion in April 2016 . Universal Studios ( known professionally as Universal Pictures and also simply referred to as Universal ) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal . The company was founded in ___MASK29___ by Carl Laemmle , Mark Dintenfass , Charles O . Baumann , Adam Kessel , Pat Powers , William Swanson , David Horsley , Robert H . Cochrane , and Jules Brulatour , and is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States , the world ' s fourth oldest after Gaumont , Pathé and Nordisk Film , and the oldest in terms of the overall film market . Its studios are located in Universal City , California , and its corporate offices are located in New York City . Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) and is one of Hollywood ' s " Big Six " studios . India , officially the Republic of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over ___MASK77___ . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . The Land Before Time is a ___MASK34___ American - Irish animated adventure drama film directed and produced by Don Bluth and executive produced by Steven Spielberg , George Lucas , Kathleen Kennedy , and Frank Marshall . Universal City is an unincorporated area within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles , California , United States . Approximately 415 acres ( ___MASK77___ . ___MASK49___ km² ) within and around the surrounding area is the property of Universal Studios , one of the six major film studios in the United States : about 70 percent of the studio ' s property is inside this unincorporated area , while the remaining 30 percent is within the Los Angeles city limits . This 70 percent portion of the property remains unincorporated to avoid the City of Los Angeles ' business taxes and regulations ( the community has a building permit office on site in order to simplify the building process ). Shrek is a ___MASK90___ American computer - animated fantasy - comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson in their directorial debut . It features the voices of Mike Myers , Eddie Murphy , Cameron Diaz , and John Lithgow . It is loosely based on William Steig ' s 1990 fairy tale picture book " Shrek !", and somewhat serves as a parody film , targeting other films adapted from numerous children ' s fantasies ( mainly animated Disney films ). The film ' s includes music by Smash Mouth , Eels , Joan Jett , The Proclaimers , Jason Wade , Baha Men , and John Cale ( covering Leonard Cohen ). Steven Allan Spielberg , , ( born December ___MASK98___ , 1946 ) is an American director , producer , and screenwriter . He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era , as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history . He is also one of the co - founders of DreamWorks Studios . Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and a division of Walt Disney Studios , owned by The Walt Disney Company . The division is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank , California , and is the main producer of live - action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit . It took on its current name in ___MASK91___ . Today , in conjunction with the other units of Walt Disney Studios , Walt Disney Pictures is classified as one of Hollywood ' s " Big Six " film studios . The phi phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving a series of still images , when viewed in rapid succession , as continuous motion . Max Wertheimer , one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology , defined this phenomenon in ___MASK29___ . The phi phenomenon and persistence of vision together formed the foundation of Hugo Münsterberg ' s theory of film and are part of the process of motion perception . Columbia Pictures Industries , Inc . ( known professionally as Columbia Pictures and Columbia , and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation ) is an American film studio , production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group , a division of Sony Entertainment ' s Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony . The studio was founded in ___MASK44___ as Cohn - Brandt - Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jack ' s best friend Joe Brandt , released its first feature film in August 1922 . It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 , and went public two years later . Its name is derived from " Columbia ", a national personification of the United States , which is used as the studio ' s logo . In its early years , it was a minor player in Hollywood , but began to grow in the late 1920s , spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra . With Capra and others , Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy . In the 1930s , Columbia ' s major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant . In the 1940s , Rita Hayworth became the studio ' s premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s . Rosalind Russell , Glenn Ford , and William Holden also became major stars at the studio . Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in ___MASK89___ . The company ' s headquarters are located on the backlot of Universal Studios in Universal City , California . Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of change by means of the rapid display of a sequence of images that minimally differ from each other . The illusion  as in motion pictures in general  is thought to rely on the phi phenomenon . Animators are artists who specialize in the creation of animation . Animation can be recorded with either analogue media , a flip book , motion picture film , video tape , digital media , including formats with animated GIF , Flash animation , and digital video . To display animation , a digital camera , computer , or projector are used along with new technologies that are produced . Amblimation was the animation production arm of Steven Spielberg ' s Amblin Entertainment . The studio was shut down in ___MASK94___ and some of the Amblimation staff went on to join DreamWorks Animation . It was known for its quieter atmosphere , more subdued acting , and more atmospheric pace compared to a great deal of American animated films ; these qualities usually led to underperformance at American box offices and may have factored in the decision to close the studio down . The company ' s mascot , Fievel Mousekewitz ( An American Tail ) , appears in its production logo . Digital video is a representation of moving visual images in the form of encoded digital data . This is in contrast to analog video , which represents moving visual images with analog signals . Digital video comprises a series digital images displayed in rapid succession . In contrast , one of the key analog video methods , motion picture film , uses a series of photographs which are projected in rapid succession . Standard film stocks such as ___MASK79___ mm and 35 mm record at 24 frames per second . For video , there are two frame rate standards : NTSC , at about 30 frames per second , and PAL at 25 frames per second . Pacific Data Images ( PDI ) was an American computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG in ___MASK99___ . It was renamed PDI / DreamWorks and was half of DreamWorks Animation SKG , Inc ., the public company formed by merging PDI and the feature animation division of DreamWorks . Donald Virgil " Don " Bluth ( born September ___MASK69___ , 1937 ) is an American animator , film director , producer , writer , production designer , video game designer , and animation instructor who is known for directing animated films , such as " The Secret of NIMH " ( 1982 ), " An American Tail " ( 1986 ), " The Land Before Time " ( ___MASK34___ ), " All Dogs Go to Heaven " ( 1989 ), and " Anastasia " ( 1997 ), and for his involvement in the LaserDisc game " Dragon ' s Lair " ( 1983 ). He is also known for competing with former employer Walt Disney Productions during the years leading up to the films that would make up the Disney Renaissance . He is the older brother of illustrator Toby Bluth . Sullivan Bluth Studios was an American and Irish animated film production company established in ___MASK80___ by animator Don Bluth . Bluth and several colleagues , all of whom were former Disney animators , left Disney in ___MASK80___ to form Don Bluth Productions , later known as the Bluth Group . This studio produced the short film " Banjo the Woodpile Cat ", the feature film " The Secret of NIMH ", a brief animation sequence in the musical " Xanadu ", and the video games " Dragon ' s Lair " and " Space Ace ". The Bluth Group went bankrupt in 1984 , and Bluth co - founded Sullivan Bluth Studios with American businessman Morris Sullivan in ___MASK8___ . Paramount Pictures Corporation ( known professionally as Paramount Pictures and often referred to simply as Paramount ) is an American film studio based in Hollywood , California , that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since ___MASK11___ . Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world , the second oldest in the United States , and the sole member of the " Big Six " film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood . In ___MASK30___ Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo . These fortunate few would become the first " movie stars ." Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ). Comcast Corporation ( formerly registered as Comcast Holdings ) is an American global telecommunications conglomerate that is the largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue . It is the second - largest pay - TV company after the AT & T - DirecTV acquisition , largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States , and the nation ' s third - largest home telephone service provider . Comcast services U . S . residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia . The company ' s headquarters are located in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal since ___MASK95___ , Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over - the - air and cable television broadcast . DreamWorks Animation SKG , Inc . ( known professionally as DreamWorks Animation or simply DreamWorks ) is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal , a division of Comcast . It is based in Glendale , California and produces animated feature films , television programs and online virtual games . The studio has currently released a total of 33 feature films , including the franchises " Shrek ", " Madagascar ", " Kung Fu Panda ", and " How to Train Your Dragon ". The studio was formed by the merger of the feature animation division of DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images ( PDI ). Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks in ___MASK94___ by some of Amblin Entertainment ' s former animation branch Amblimation alumni , it was spun off into a separate public company in 2004 . DreamWorks Animation currently maintains its Glendale campus , as well as satellite studios in India and China . On August ___MASK37___ , 2016 , NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks Animation for $ 3 . 8 billion , making it a division of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group . Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ( known as Twentieth Century - Fox with hyphen from ___MASK63___ until ___MASK8___ , professionally as 20th Century Fox , Twentieth Century Fox or simply known as Fox ) is an American film studio and film distributor currently owned by 21st Century Fox . It is one of the " Big Six " major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles , just west of Beverly Hills . The studio was formerly owned by News Corporation .