W4: Charles Mintz, Ub Iwerks, Van Beruren, Early WB

Question 1

Ub Iwerk’s first major cartoon character at his new studio

Answer 1

Flip the Frog

Question 2

Ub Iwerk’s second major character after his first character ran its course

Answer 2

Willie Whopper, boy who told a lotta exaggerated lies/tales

Question 3

2 skills that Ub lacked that were Disney’s strengths

Answer 3

1) story sense

2) comic know-how

Question 4

Producer who ran the cartoon studio that made an Tom and Jerry (not the cat and mouse)

Answer 4

Amadee J. Van Beuren

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

The Sunshine-Makers, 1935

Question 6

The colour series in which The Sunshine-Makers falls under?

Answer 6

Rainbow Parade

Question 7

Director hired away from Walt Disney to supervise Rainbow Parade and other cartoons produced at Van Beuren’s

Answer 7

Burt Gillet, depressed as fuck

Question 8

Columbia’s first sound cartoon character

Answer 8

Krazy Kat, resurrected from silent era

Question 9

Most prominent Columbia character (almost a star character)

Answer 9

Scrappy, the little human boy (though he was not on par with Mickey Mouse)

Question 10

3 ex-Fleischer animators most responsible for Scrappy cartoons at Columbia

Answer 10

1. Dick Huemer
2. Art Davis
3. Sid Marcus

Question 11

Columbia Pictures cartoons sub-contracted some Color Rhapsody shorts to this studio

Answer 11

Iwerks Studio

Question 12

OG producer of WB

Answer 12

Leon Schlesinger

Question 13

Warner Bros directors from 1930 to 1933

Answer 13

1. Hugh Harman

2. Rudolf Ising

Question 14

First significant WB character

Answer 14

Bosko, creating by Harman and Ising

Question 15

Second significant WB character

Answer 15

Buddy, replaced Bosko after Harman and Ising left WB

Question 16

WB’s two cartoon series

Answer 16

1) Looney Tunes (came first)

2) Merrie Melodies

Question 17

How was Looney Tunes different from Merrie Melodies?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

What is significant about WB’s Honeymoon Hotel (1934)

Answer 18

First WB colour cartoon

made with 2-strip cinecolor

Question 19

studio that distributed Ub’s first two cartoon series

Answer 19

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

Question 20

Important animator left Fleischer to join Ub Iwerks’ studio

Answer 20

Grim Natwick

Question 21

2 WB animators sent to Ub’s studio to help him make sub-contracted Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoons

Answer 21

1. Chuck Jones

2. Robert Clampett

Question 22

What happened to Ub after he closed his studio?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

1937 Color Rhapsody cartoon that Ub made for Columbia

Answer 23

Skeleton Frolic

Question 24

Charles Mintz strengths and weaknesses

Answer 24

• sometimes reminiscent of a Fleischer cartoon
• occasional charm and flashes of imagination
• generic
• followed a formula