The Rank Organisation Davis cut staff, reduced budgets and concentrated film production at Pinewood. Other studio facilities (in Islington) were closed, sold (Lime Grove Studios) or leased (Denham). The Rank Organisation closed Independent Producers Ltd. The policies of Davis alienated many in the industry, in particular they led film director David Lean, responsible for some of Rank's most critically and financially successful films, to look elsewhere for backing. In 1949, the company bought the Bush Radio manufacturing facility and began to diversify its interests. In the early 1960s Rank took over Murphy Radio to form the Rank Bush Murphy Group (which was eventually
Popeye the Sailor filmography (Fleischer Studios) Color Specials" ("Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor" from 1936, "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" from 1937, and "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" from 1939), which are two-reels (20 minutes) long and in Technicolor. The first 8 cartoons used the "Out of the Inkwell" logo. Dave Fleischer was the credited director on every cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios. Fleischer's actual duties were those of a film producer and creative supervisor, with the head animators doing much of the work assigned to animation directors in other studios. The head animator is the first animator listed. Credited animators