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Topic: Flip the Frog Cartoons: UB IWerks
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 15, 2015 01:42 PM
Blackhawk released most of the Flip the Frog cartoons that were rleased, as Blackhawk had the earliest negatives for these cartoons, and they were great.
I would hunt down the very first "Flip the Frog" cartoon, "Fiddlesticks" which also holds the distinction as one of the earliest color cartoons. It was only two strip Technicolor, but it was a good two years before Disney's "Flowers and Trees", and is a fun little color experiment by Iwerks. It even hosts a "Mickey Rip-off" Mouse (complete with red pants and buttons), which is kind of funny, as Iwerks actually animated the very first Mickey Mouse shorts.
Beware, however, and hold out for the fairly rare silver box edition, as that is on LPP film stock and unfaded and it looks really good, where-as the earlier printings of this cartoon by Blackhawk, were on quick fade Eastman stock and have lost most or all of their color.
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted September 16, 2015 01:53 PM
Yep! Chuck's very first job was washing animation cels! It's sound terrible today, but studios had to bring down costs for their pictures, so they washed the animation cels after photographing them, so that they could re-use them!
This is why original animation cels from the 30's and 40's (especially Warner Brothers), go for incredibly high dollars these days, and those that the paint hasn't all "flicked off" from.
Iwerks, after shutting down his studio and then doing a few cartoons for Warners (yep, two of them, Porky's) and some contract work for Columbia studios animation department, completely shut his studio and went back to Disney, where he finished his career making many a valuable technological advancement for animation and beyond, (which, of course, Walt benefited from greatly). According to Maltin, they were happy to be back and never spoke of the years they were apart.
Iwrk did produce some very memorable cartoons. he tried darned hard, but most of his output was less than memorable.
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