A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Bill Sturm
William A. Sturm
Birthplace:
New Jersey, USA
Born:
January 1, 1906
Died:
January 1, 1981
William Sturm attended The Art Students League and worked for J.R. Bray as a teenager. He would work with Pat Sullivan, producer of Felix the Cat, in the 1920s; he is credited with the twisting of Felix's tail into the question mark. Sturm worked with Fleischer Studios, where he worked on Popeye before moving on to Disney. He opened his own studio, where he worked for the government and commercial accounts doing training films and animated commercials for Coca-Cola, Bosco, and Brylcreme, among others.
Animation:
1933 Wild Elephinks
1934 Let's You and Him Fight
1934 Shiver Me Timbers!
1935 Choose Your 'Weppins'
1935 King of the Mardi Gras
1935 You Gotta Be a Football Hero
1936 Grampy's Indoor Outing
1936 Greedy Humpty Dumpty
1936 I Wanna Be a Life Guard
1936 The Cobweb Hotel
1937 Fowl Play
1937 Organ Grinder's Swing
1939 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1939 The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
1940 Females Is Fickle
1941 Lend a Paw
1948 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.