* CreatorBacklash: Jules Engel, who was working as an inbetweener at the Mintz studio in the 1930's while learning art, did not recall his experience there as a fond one and only did it because he needed the job.
-->"Let's say at the Charles Mintz-- although the Charles Mintz studio experience for me was a disaster because of the people's lack of sensitivity of what the world was doing, I realized then that there was nothing I can do about that, because I'm a young fellow, I'm a beginner and I'd better keep my mouth shut. Which I believe at certain times is what you're supposed to do. But the whole place was very anti-intellectual, anti-sensitive to art, anti-art, anti-culture. I mean, people were doing that because it was a job, but not with passion, not with tenderness." "But those (drawings) were horrible things. I mean, they were just awful things. But as I say, when you start, you don't complain. It gives you, as you know, the opportunity to work and get experience, and that was important. The environment was bad because the people there were absolutely against anything that was refined or sensitive. In fact, I remember a couple of times, they knocked me a little bit. In other words, you were a kind of an "egghead," and "intellectual," a "snob," and all that kind of thing. So you kept your mouth shut and you worked."
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The bulk of the library is not available, especially in regards to the pre-UPA Columbia library (which has had most of its library restored save for a handful of shorts that are either missing, only exist in fragments or in crude dupe negative form) save for what is available on Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research Garage Sale Web site. Most of the cartoons were compiled into the program "Totally Tooned In", which first aired internationally in 1999 before airing on Antenna TV in the states in 2011, where it would remain until 2015. The show is most likely still being aired in other countries. Jerry has said that he is working with Columbia on a DVD release at this time. [[http://shop.tcm.com/upa-jolly-frolics-dvd/detail.php?p=364906 UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection]] is now available from Creator/TurnerClassicMovies. A set of the theatrical ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' shorts has also been released.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: United Productions of America barely lasted more than a decade as a theatrical cartoon studio, during which time their stylized approach to the medium profoundly changed the way cartoons looked for the next few decades (for better or worse). Even today, their influence, direct or indirect, is felt in shows as diverse as ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
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