National Animated Film Service

The National Animated Film Service (NAFS) is an animation studio founded in 1915 by E.R Franks.

Producers

 * E.R Franks (1915-1938)
 * Ted Eshbaugh (1933-1938)

Directors

 * E.R Franks (1915-1920)
 * Sid Marcus (1921-1926)
 * Ben Harrison (1927-1935)
 * Rudy Zamora (1929-1935)
 * Al Eugster (1930)
 * Bill Nolan (1927-1929)
 * Volney White (1936-1938)
 * Manny Gould (1923-1926)
 * Jerry Fields (1921)
 * Ted Eshbaugh (1933-1938)
 * Paul Sommer (1937-1938)
 * Monte Collins (1931)
 * Vernon Stallings (1934-1938)

Writers

 * Paul Fennell (1930-1938)
 * Art Davis (1920-1926)
 * Richard Huemer (1919-1926)
 * E.R Franks (1915-1919)

Animators

 * Jerry Fields (1917-1928)
 * Jack King (1924-1930)
 * Dan Gordon (1935-1936)
 * William Brown (1933)
 * Harry Love (1929-1930)
 * E.R Franks (1915-1918, 1925, 1936)
 * William Strum (1934-1938)
 * William Shull (1933-1938)
 * Gregory La Cava (1921-1923)
 * Isadore Klein (1919-1923)
 * Larry Silverman (1925-1938)
 * Frank Tipper (1934-1938)
 * Fred Kopietz (1938)
 * Sid Marcus (1916-1921)
 * Bill Nolan (1923-1927)
 * Mannie Davis (1923-1924)
 * George Cannata (1930-1938)
 * "Ham" Burton (1931-1932)
 * Robert Stokes (1933-1934)
 * Bill Mason (1932-1933)
 * George Gordon (1936)
 * Jack Zander (1937-1938)
 * John Foster (1921)
 * Dave Tendlar (1933)
 * Frank Moser (1930)
 * Rudy Zamora (1929)
 * "Jimmie" Culhane (1930-1931)
 * Walt Rider (1922-1938)
 * Ben Clopton (1929-1930)
 * George Dane (1933)
 * Berny Wolf (1933-1934)
 * Norm Blackburn (1933-1934)
 * Paul Smith (1933-1938)

Layout and Backgrounds

 * Philip DeGuard (1934-1938)
 * Robert Givens (1933-1938)

Music

 * Arch Fritz (1929-1938)

Series

 * Cartoonics (1915-1938)
 * Dopey Dog (1929-1938)

History
On January 3, 1915, Edward Robert Franks opened his animation studio, The National Animated Film Service in New York, the first cartoon made at the studio was Window Washers it was Directed, Written and Animated all by Franks it was also the first cartoon in the Cartoonics series of cartoons, by 1918, Franks had stopped directing, writing and animating on the cartoons and handed the job to his staff, in 1919, Sid Marcus introduced the star character of Cartoonics "Dopey Dog" he was very popular that he gpt his own spin-off series in 1929 however Sid Marcus would leave the studio in 1926 along with Manny Gould to work at the new Victor Stevenson Studio in California to work on there Wackytoons cartoons, Jerry Fields would also leave the studio in 1928 for The Victor Stevenson Studio, by the 1930's the studio started hving financial troubles and Franks would bring in Ted Eshbaugh to co-produce and direct the cartoons, this did not work out as Franks closed the studio on December 31, 1938, Eshbaugh would take most of the staff that where laid off when the studio closed and move to California to start a new studio "Trademark Cartoons" he would also buy the rights to the Cartoonics series and continue it at Trademark Cartoons until the studio closed in 1972.

Distributors

 * Universal Pictures (1915-1919)
 * Paramount Pictures (1919-1930)
 * Columbia Pictures (1930-1933)
 * BA Film Corporation (1933-1937)
 * 20th Century Fox (1937-1938)