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The producer of Droids, Ewoks on why the early Star Wars cartoons flopped
In the late-1970s, Michael Hirsh seized an opportunity. An experimental filmmaker whose love of art (and occasional LSD trips) drove him to animation, Hirsh eventually turned his passion into a business, producing independent feature films and shorts that …