Back to Iwerks: The Comi-Color Series
Since Winter is on its way out for a little while, here’s one of my favorites, Jack Frost. A wonderful little short with a lot of heart.
Tag Archives: Ub Iwerks
Halloween Cartoons Revisited!
It’s become a yearly tradition here at Cartoon Research to ask what your favorite Halloween cartoons are. Here are some of mine.
Notes On the Iwerks’ “Comi-Color” Materials
This week, I will write a little about the Iwerks ComiColor master materials at UCLA. These materials are in varied condition, but generally are in amazing shape.
Terrytoons Always Look Better in IB Technicolor
Here is a really fun Heckle and Jeckle short from 1951, looking as it should in beautiful IB Technicolor. I’m especially fond of some of the Jim Tyer sequences.
Flip the Frog Update: Sometimes a little piece of music goes a long way…
Here are three openings from my new transfers with rare music cues – and projection notes, to make sure they sync the film to the sound disc.
David Shepard (1940-2017)
On Tuesday, we all lost a giant in the preservation of film history: David Shepard. Here is just a little about how this one person’s life helped preserve the work of many filmmakers.
Halloween Haunts: Flip the Frog in “Spooks” (1932)
Grim Natwick seems to carry a lot of the animation on this short, and his well-drawn poses on the skeleton man are some of my favorites in this cartoon.
Needle Drop Soundtracks In Iwerks Cartoons
Ub Iwerks seems to have had a regular working relationship with RCA Victor. As we will see, Victor records seem to permeate Iwerks’ scoring – – at least for a while.
Max Fleischer and Novelty Records
One type of record that companies hoped would sell were called “novelty records”, for lack of a better term. Max Fleischer used three such “novelties” in some of his 1930’s cartoons.
Needle Drop Cuban Rhythms For Boop and Flip
Cuban rhythms really didn’t filter their way down to North American popular music – the kind that most folks would buy – until 1930. It’s an entertaining, if roundabout, story.
