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- Birth nameFred Laderman
- Fred Ladd, a native of Toledo, Ohio, studied radio & TV at Ohio State University, and was based in New York for the first 30 years of his career. While there, he worked at an advertising agency named Cayton Inc., owned by the late William D. Cayton (aka Bill Cayton). In 1957, Ladd used the 1939 Nazi propaganda film "Weltraumschiff 1 Startet" (Spaceship 1 Launches) to cut-in special effect shots of the ship flying through space. The hour-long animated feature film was later repackaged into 6-minute feature episodes released under the names of: The Space Explorers and The New Adventures of the Space Explorers. Companies: Radio & Television Packagers (1973-75), Delphi Associates (1964-67), Color Systems Inc. (1968-75), Plaid Productions (1974-84), Greatest Tales Inc. (1975-76), Entercolor Technologies (1984-94)- IMDb Mini Biography By: CES
- Ladd supervised the first colorization of B&W Looney Tunes and Betty Boop cartoons in the late 1960s. He also supervised the colorization of the B&W Popeye cartoons and B&W Merrie Melodies for Turner Entertainment in 1987. These colorizations utilized a process of tracing film frames that have been blown-up to cel-size proportions. His colorizations should not be confused with the computer colorized cartoons of the 1990s.
- He is very famously known for bring Anime to America.
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