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.

In the 1940s, the ComiColor cartoons received home-movie distribution through Castle Films. Cinecolor produced the 16 mm film prints for Castle Films, with red emulsion on one side and blue emulsion on the other. Later, in the 1970s, Blackhawk Films released these for home use, but this time using conventional Eastmancolor film stock. They are now in the public domain in the United States and are widely available on physical and digital media.

Filmography

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See also

  • Golden Age of American animation
  • Color Classics – a series of animated short films produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941
  • Color Rhapsody
  • Happy Harmonies
  • Merrie Melodies
  • Noveltoons
  • Phantasies
  • Rainbow Parade
  • Silly Symphonies
  • Swing Symphony
  • Modern Madcaps
  • Puppetoons

References

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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)