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    "title": "Iwao Takamoto",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"alert alert-info\">\n  <p>\n   The content in this article is still under development. A completed version will appear soon!\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Iwao Takamoto\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      April 29 1925\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      January 8 2007\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Los Angeles\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n        Nisei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Iwao;\nLastName:Takamoto;\nDisplayName:Iwao Takamoto;\nBirthDate:1925-04-29;\nDeathDate:2007-01-08;\nBirthLocation:Los Angeles;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Nisei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:Los Angeles;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Animator and cartoon producer and director, most notably for Disney and Hanna Barbara. Animator Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007) was the creator of such animated characters as Scooby-Doo, Muttley, and Penelope Pitstop. A\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n   Nisei\n  </a>\n  born and raised in Los Angeles, Takamoto and his family were incarcerated at the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Manzanar/\" title=\"Manzanar\">\n   Manzanar\n  </a>\n  camp in California. Leaving camp, he was hired as an animator by Disney in 1945 and worked as an animator and character designer on such Disney feature films as\n  <i>\n   Cinderella\n  </i>\n  ,\n  <i>\n   Lady and the Tramp\n  </i>\n  , and\n  <i>\n   One Hundred and One Dalmatians\n  </i>\n  . He left Disney for Hanna-Barbara in 1961, where he worked for more than forty years, heavily influencing the visual style of the company's productions.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Takamoto, Iwao, with Michael Mallory.\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/mylifewiththousa00taka\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters'\n    </a>\n    . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Stewart, Susan. \"\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E0DD1230F933A25752C0A9619C8B63\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     Iwao Takamoto, 81, the Animation Artist Who Created Scooby-Doo.\n    </a>\n    \"\n    <i>\n     New York Times\n    </i>\n    , January 10, 2007.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Wells, Paul.\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jan/29/guardianobituaries.obituaries\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     Obituary\n    </a>\n    .\n    <i>\n     The Guardian\n    </i>\n    , January 28, 2007.\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153700\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.011 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.015 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 127/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2066/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 241/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   10.888      1 -total\n 62.49%    6.804      1 Template:Databox-People\n 12.40%    1.350      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 12.27%    1.336      1 Template:Published\n 11.63%    1.266      1 Template:comingsoon\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1867-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153700 and revision id 29742\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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