Editing Bray Productions (section)

{{Short description|American animation studio}}
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{{redirect|Bray Studios|the UK studios|Bray Film Studios}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Bray Productions
| logo =
| type = [[Animation]]
| predecessor = [[Émile Cohl|Emile Cohl Pictures]]
| successor = [[Walter Lantz Productions]]<br />Bolivar Productions<br />[[Fleischer Studios|Out of the Inkwell Studios]]
| founder = [[John Randolph Bray]]
| key_people = John Randolph Bray<br />Earl Hurd<br />[[Paul Terry (cartoonist)|Paul Terry]]<br />[[Max Fleischer]]<br />[[Dave Fleischer]]<br />[[Walter Lantz]]
| industry = [[Film|Motion pictures]]
| products =
| fate = Bankruptcy
| owner = John Randolph Bray
| divisions =
| caption =
| image = "The Quacky Doodles" 1917 ad by Paramount-Bray Pictographs in Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1917) (IA motionpicturenew161unse) (page 165 crop).jpg
| foundation = {{start date and age|1912}}
| defunct = {{start date and age|1928}}
| location_city = New York
| location_country = United States
| homepage =
}}
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'''Bray Productions''' was a pioneering American [[animation studio]] that produced several popular cartoons during the years of [[World War I]] and the early [[interwar era]],<ref>Donald Crafton; ''Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928''; University of Chicago Press; {{ISBN|0-226-11667-0}} (2nd edition, paperback, 1993)</ref><ref>Denis Gifford; ''American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897–1929''; McFarland & Company; {{ISBN|0-89950-460-4}} (library binding, 1990)</ref><ref>Leonard Maltin; ''Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons''; Penguin Books; {{ISBN|0-452-25993-2}} (1980, 1987)</ref> becoming a springboard for several key animators of the 20th century, including the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, Paul Terry, [[Shamus Culhane]] and [[Grim Natwick]] among others.