Vital Achille Raoul Barré was a Canadian cartoonist, animator of the silent film era, and painter. Initially known as a political cartoonist, he originated the French Canadian comic strip, then crosse
Bray Productions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons before and during the years of World War I and the early interwar era, becoming a springboard for sev
Raoul Barré
…their own studio, totally independent of Edison and dedicated 100% to animation. This Barré-Nolan Studio was probably the first of its kind (although Bray Productions also had a good claim to the title). The main title produced by the new studio was a series of inserts for the mostly live-action Animated Grouch Chaser…
"The Quacky Doodles" 1917 ad by Paramount Bray Pictographs in Motion Picture News
Poster for a 1926 Bray Studios film short, Monkeys Prefer Blondes