found: Wikipedia, May 14, 2015(Frank Moser (artist); Frank Moser (1886-1964) was an American artist, illustrator and film director who co-founded Terrytoons, the animated cartoon films; between 1916 and 1937 he directed 202 films; Moser was born at Oketo, Kansas, and studied art at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design there; he was a cartoonist for the Des Moines Register and Leader before going to New York in 1916; in 1929 he and Paul Terry established 'Moser & Terry' to create Terrytoons; Moser was Terrytoons most prolific animator, often responsible for nearly half of footage on each cartoon; he was also the only person beside Terry and musical director Philip A. Scheib to receive on-screen credit; Moser painted landscapes in his later years and exhibited in galleries in New York and Westchester County; he was a member of the Allied Artists of America, the American Water Color Society and the Salmagundi Club; he was one of the founding members and the first treasurer of the Hudson Valley Art Association and he was its historian until his death; he died in Dobbs Ferry Hospital at the age of 78)
found: Find A Grave, via WWW, May 14, 2015(Frank Moser; born February 21, 1886 in Oketo, Marshall County, Kansas; died October 1, 1964 in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York; Motion Picture Cartoonist and Director; Co-founder of the Terrytoons animation studio; a onetime newspaper cartoonist, Moser arrived in New York City in 1915 and learned to animate at Raoul Barré Productions, the first professional cartoon studio; the following year he joined Hearst's International Film Service, which brought popular comic strips to the screen; among the series he worked on were Krazy Kat, Happy Hooligan, and Bringing Up Father; after World War I Moser began his association with producer Paul Terry, becoming a lead animator of the Farmer Al Falfa and Aesop's Film Fables cartoons at the Fables Studio; when Terry decided to leave Fables in late 1928 he persuaded Moser to join him in forming a new cartoon studio; it was Moser who got the enterprise started by bringing in a third partner, Joseph Coffman of Audio Cinema, who provided financing, facilities, and a distribution deal with Educational Pictures; the firm was originally called Moser-Terry-Coffman; by 1930 Coffman had sold his interest and the studio was renamed Terrytoons; as chief director and supervising animator Moser helped create over 200 Terrytoons shorts; in later years he worked as a commercial illustrator, landscape painter, and art historian, being an authority on the 19th Century Hudson River School)
