There was an 8/11/16 Chicago Tribune article "10 things you might not know about Fox News by Mark Jacob. In the 3rd point, it mentions that though many Fox News people criticize immigrants that become criminals, William Fox did that. That is, the Hungarian immigrant who wast the namesake for the Fox companies tried to be a bankruptcy judge but he got 6 months in jail.
Some more about this producer: he lived from 1/1/1879-5/8/1952. Born from German Jewish parents, he was born in Tolcsva, Hungary (on the Slovakia border). He was 9 months when his family came to NYC. It was his parents would have 12 more kids, but only half survived. From 1941-43, he was locked up for bribery. When he died, he left his wife, Eva Leo, and their 2 girls, Isabella and Mona.
His birth name was Wilhelm Fried Fuchs, but it was in NYC that it became “William Fox”. He is the namesake for the Fox Film Corporation and all the “Fox”-named companies Rupert Murdoch controls.
Some info about his movie contributions: There was a pioneering American cartoonist/animator named Windsor McKay (9/26/1869-7/26/1934). His “Little Nemo” comic strip ran from 10/15/1905-12/26/1926. In 1992, an English dub of the 1980 anime film “Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland” (based on that strip) was released in the USA. The titular Nemo was played by the original voice of Littlefoot. The dub is available on Crunchyroll.
McKay also made the 1918 silent animated short “The Sinking of the Lusitania” which took him and his assistants 22 months to make. His earliest cartoon shorts were “Gertie the Dinosaur” (1914). Along with McKay’s 1911 cartoon short “Little Nemo” (1911) and "“How a Mosquito Operates” (1912). These are among the earliest animated films to have a commercial impact and such animation inspired even Disney himself.
There was a 6/5/17 article called “Notre Dame Researchers Collaborate Internationally to Recreate One of the World’s First Full-Length Animated Films” by Brandi Klingerman, a Communications Specialist at Notre Dame Research (as in the Univ.). In the article. As mentioned in that article and the movie’s Wikipedia entry, Fox got permission from McKay to market the short to movie theaters. This was in November 1914 whereas the film’s overall debut was 2/8/1914. This version was made longer with a live-action prologue and intertitles (printed in-movie text that was common during the silent film era to indicate dialogue).
Source: various Wikipedia articles about McKay.
