 Flip the Frog and his girlfriend. From the 1930 edition of the Flip the Frog Annual Flip the Frog is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. He who starred in a series of cartoons produced by Celebrity Pictures and distributed through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1930 to 1933. Aside from Flip, the series also had many recurring characters including Flip's dog, the mule Orace, and a dizzy neighborhood spinster. Image File history File linksMetadata FlipFrogAnnual2. ...
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A publicity photograph (circa 1929) of Ub Iwerks and his most famous co-creation, Mickey Mouse. ...
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Orace is the mule companion of Flip the Frog in such early 1930s cartoons as The Village Specialist, Spooks, and The Milkman. ...
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History
Flip's origins are said to have been rooted in the Silly Symphony cartoon, Night. The short was animated by Ub Iwerks while working for his colleague and friend Walt Disney in 1930. After a series of disputes between the two, Iwerks left Disney and went on to accept an offer from Pat Powers to open a cartoon studio of his own and receive a salary of $300 a week, an offer Disney at the time, couldn't match. Iwerks was to produce new cartoons under Powers' Celebrity Pictures and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The first series he was to produce was to feature a character called Tony the Frog, but Iwerks disliked the name and it was subsequently changed to Flip. The opening title for the first Silly Symphony cartoon, The Skeleton Dance (1929). ...
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 Flip the Frog in The Milkman (1932) Flip's debut short was Fiddlesticks (released on August 16, 1930). Although the short looks to be very much like one of Iwerks' Silly Symphoney endeavors, it attracted public attention by being the first full-length color sound cartoon ever produced. The short was produced in two-color Technicolor and is the only Flip cartoon known have been processed in color. However, some evidence points to the second Flip short, Flying Fists to have been produced in Technicolor as well and some have speculated that the later Techno-Cracked (1933) may have been photographed in Cinecolor. The Cinecolor process was a new two-strip color process came out in 1932 and was considered superior to the two-strip Technicolor process. Iwerks would go on to make extensive use of this process with his ComiColor Cartoon series. Image File history File links Milkman-flip. ...
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Poster for the 1936 ComiColor Cartoon, Ali Baba The ComiColor Cartoon series was a series of animated short subjects produced by the Ub Iwerks studio from 1933 to 1936. ...
Iwerks studio quickly began accumulating new talent such as animators Fred Kopietz, Irv Spence, Grim Natwick, and Chuck Jones (who worked at the Iwerks studio as a cel-washer before going on to inbetweening and then animating at the Leon Schlesinger studio). After the first two cartoons, the appearance of Flip the Frog gradually became less frog-like. This was done under the encouragement of MGM who thought that the series would sell better if the character were more humanized. Flip's major redesign is attributed to Grim Natwick who made a name for himself at the Fleischer Studios with the creation of Betty Boop. Natwick also had a hand to changing Flip's girlfriend. In earlier films, she was consistently a cat. Natwick, however, changed that. Flip's new girlfriend, Fifi was now a human who shared distinct similarities with Betty (even down to her spit curls). Myron Grim Natwick (August 16, 1890 - October 7, 1990) was an American animator and film director, regarded as one of the greatest of all time. ...
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The frog's personality also began to develop. As the series progressed, Flip became more of a down-and-out, Chaplin-esque character who always found himself in everyday conflicts surrounding the poverty-stricken atmosphere of the Great Depression. Due to the influx of New York City animators to Iwerks' studio, such as Natwick, the shorts became increasingly risqué. In Room Runners (1932), Flip, out of cash and luck, attempts to sneak out of his hotel in order to avoid paying his past-due rent. One of several gags has Flip watching a girl taking a shower through a keyhole in the door. In The Office Boy, released the same year, Flip tries to secure a low-level office job and meets a shapely secretary. At one point in the short, a mischievous mouse which Flip tries to apprehend scoots up the secretary's skirt! In A Chinaman's Chance (1933), Flip and his dog track down the notorious Chinese criminial, Chow Mein. While investigating in a Chinese laundry, Flip stumbles into an opium den, inhales the stuff via opium pipe, and begins hallucinating. Image File history File links Theofficeboy. ...
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The character eventually wore out his welcome at MGM. His final short was Soda Squirt, released on October 12, 1933. Subsequently, Iwerks replaced the series with a new one starring an imaginative liar named Willie Whopper. Flip became largely forgotten by the public in the coming years. However, the character would make a small comeback when animation enthusiasts and historians began digging up the old Iwerks shorts. Most of the Flip cartoons are now available on DVD, in particular, on the Cartoons That Time Forgot series. October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ...
Willie Whopper opening title Willie Whopper is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. ...
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References - Iwerks, Leslie and Kenworthy, John. (2001): The Hand Behind the Mouse. Disney Editions.
- Maltin, Leonard (1987): Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. Penguin Books.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1993): The Great Cartoon Directors. Da Capo Press.
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