Flip The Frog Fiddlesticks (1930)
Flip the Frog was MetroGoldwynMayer s first sound cartoon. It is about a happygolucky, needy frog, named Flip the Frog. This cartoon was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930. He had drawn a frog and his girlfriend in Night , one of the last Silly Symphonies short films he drew while working for Walt Disney. After leaving Disney, Ub Iwerks began the Flip cartoon series with the help of Pat Powers. The first cartoon that Ub Iwerks made for the series was called Fiddlesticks (released on August 16, 1930), and it was also the first color sound cartoon ever made. Fiddlesticks was made in twocolor Technicolor. The rest of the Flip series were made in black and white, except for TechnoCracked (1933).
|
|