W4: Charles Mintz, Ub Iwerks, Van Beruren, Early WB Flashcards
Ub Iwerk’s first major cartoon character at his new studio
Flip the Frog
Ub Iwerk’s second major character after his first character ran its course
Willie Whopper, boy who told a lotta exaggerated lies/tales
2 skills that Ub lacked that were Disney’s strengths
1) story sense
2) comic know-how
Producer who ran the cartoon studio that made an Tom and Jerry (not the cat and mouse)
Amadee J. Van Beuren
What is the title of the strange 1935 cartoon we watched in class (hint: “I don’t want to be happy”), directed by Ted Eshbaugh?
The Sunshine-Makers, 1935
The colour series in which The Sunshine-Makers falls under?
Rainbow Parade
Director hired away from Walt Disney to supervise Rainbow Parade and other cartoons produced at Van Beuren’s
Burt Gillet, depressed as fuck
Columbia’s first sound cartoon character
Krazy Kat, resurrected from silent era
Most prominent Columbia character (almost a star character)
Scrappy, the little human boy (though he was not on par with Mickey Mouse)
3 ex-Fleischer animators most responsible for Scrappy cartoons at Columbia
- Dick Huemer
- Art Davis
- Sid Marcus
Columbia Pictures cartoons sub-contracted some Color Rhapsody shorts to this studio
Iwerks Studio
OG producer of WB
Leon Schlesinger
Warner Bros directors from 1930 to 1933
- Hugh Harman
2. Rudolf Ising
First significant WB character
Bosko, creating by Harman and Ising
Second significant WB character
Buddy, replaced Bosko after Harman and Ising left WB
WB’s two cartoon series
1) Looney Tunes (came first)
2) Merrie Melodies
How was Looney Tunes different from Merrie Melodies?
a) LOONEY TUNES:
- Recurring characters
- revolved around story
- Only sometimes revolving around music
b) MERRIE MELODIES:
- No recurring characters
- Oneshots
- Revolved completely around songs owned by Warner Bros.
What is significant about WB’s Honeymoon Hotel (1934)
First WB colour cartoon
made with 2-strip cinecolor
studio that distributed Ub’s first two cartoon series
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
Important animator left Fleischer to join Ub Iwerks’ studio
Grim Natwick
2 WB animators sent to Ub’s studio to help him make sub-contracted Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoons
- Chuck Jones
2. Robert Clampett
What happened to Ub after he closed his studio?
Went back to his bro Walt and helped develop a lot of technology that Disney would use in the future
- Visual/special effects technician
- Later made many of the rides for Disneyland
1937 Color Rhapsody cartoon that Ub made for Columbia
Skeleton Frolic
Charles Mintz strengths and weaknesses
- sometimes reminiscent of a Fleischer cartoon
- occasional charm and flashes of imagination
- generic
- followed a formula
