ComiColor_Cartoons

ComiColor Cartoons

ComiColor Cartoons

1933-36 American animated film series

ComiColor Cartoons is a series of twenty-five animated short subjects produced by Ub Iwerks from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by Iwerks Studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures (run by Pat Powers) had to distribute the films itself. The series was shot exclusively in Cinecolor.

Most of the ComiColor entries were based upon popular fairy tales and other familiar stories, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Old Mother Hubbard, The Bremen Town Musicians, and The Headless Horseman.

Production

Grim Natwick, Al Eugster, and Shamus Culhane were among the series' lead animators/directors, and a number of the shorts were filmed using Iwerks' multiplane camera, which he built himself from the remains of a Chevrolet automobile.

Filmography

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Home media

All of the ComiColor cartoons are now available in the 2004 Region 2 ComiColor DVD set released by Mk2/Lobster in France. Many are available in Region 1, in particular on the Cartoons That Time Forgot series.

Steve Stanchfield of Thunderbean released the restored versions of the shorts on a Blu-ray/DVD set called ComiColor Cartoons Collection.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, Penguin Books, 1987)
  2. [2]
    ""Jack Frost" (1934) from the Original Camera Negs |".

Other sources

  • Leslie Iwerks and John Kenworthy, The Hand Behind the Mouse (Disney Editions, 2001) and documentary of the same name (DVD, 1999)
  • Jeff Lenburg, The Great Cartoon Directors (Da Capo Press, 1993)
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