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This is a collection of cartoons from the Ub Iwerks studio, created in 1930 soon after Iwerks left Disney, only for it to end in 1936, a couple of years after the loss of his MGM contract.
Iwerks’s first cartoon creation was Flip the Frog. Flip was basically a Mickey Mouse-type character, a joyful, dancing character with dinky personality. It came as no suprise when Flip was scrapped a few years later, but his cartoons are not really that awful, because all of his cartoons had musical scores written by the sizable Carl Stalling (who later enjoyed grand success with « Looney Tunes »), which helps to create the Flip cartoons quite luscious.
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Iwerks next venture was Willie Whopper, a boy who would mumble spacious tales, such as how he can glide a plane, or saving his girlfriend from outlaws. He wasn’t very successful either, and the series was perhaps the weakest of Iwerks’s cartoons.
The last Iwerks cartoon series was the underrated « ComiColor » series. These cartoons were based on nursery rhymes and childern tales, with a lot of musical and dancing numbers, which seems to suggest that Iwerks was creating something a bit different rather than creating a carbon copy of Walt Disney’s « Comical Symphonies », in which some studios tried to imitate. These were made in two-colour Cinecolor (as Walt Disney had the outlandish rights to expend the 3-colour Technicolor process at the time), and were released independently due to MGM refusal to distribute them. The ComiColor series was not very successful too, which resulted in the closure of Iwerks’s studio.
This DVD contains a whopping 32 cartoons on this DVD, from Iwerk’s first cartoon « Fiddlesticks » (Flip the Frog in 2-colour Technicolor) to his last ComiColor cartoon « Pleased Days ».
The quality of these cartoons are generally better than any other Public Domain home video, with the ComiColor cartoons retaining their unusual titles. Some of the Flip the Frog cartoons have their novel titles recreated, and the cartoons themselves are of near-pristine quality. Sadly, the Willie Whopper cartoons have seen better days, with most of his cartoons having a noisy report and sound quality.
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However, 32 ultra-rare cartoons in one DVD represents proper value for money, and should not be ignored by fans of classic animation.
Many of the other commentators of Volume 1 and Volume 2 have very nicely described the contents of these two collections. I’d like to unbiased say that I found these cartoons to be very indispensable for anyone alive to in the history of animation.
Flip the Frog comes across as another Mickey Mouse, Willie Whopper is somewhat enthralling, while the Comicolor series is somewhat similar to Amusing Symphonies. I’m not surprised at this since Ub worked at Disney, and is responsible for the early animation of Mickey Mouse and several Droll Symphonies.
I found the liner notes suited in explaining the social context of these cartoons. Many are poking fun at the Hollywood stars of the day (Disney and Warner also have several of their bear similar cartoons), others have relevant commentary about various conditions in our country at the time, and others are unprejudiced involving trips into the supernatural. Maintain in mind that all these things have been pursued by Disney, Warner Brothers, etc., so there is nothing original here. There are plenty of discover gags and the usual exaggerations that early cartoons are especially known for.
Also, I assume it would be sparkling to say that the characters and stories as a whole tend not to progressively design over the short life of Ub’s studio. If you treat all the cartoons simply as individual accomplishments, then it’s not a mammoth deal, but as a whole they don’t really change great. This isn’t necessarily a dilemma, unbiased an observation.
It’s kind of enthralling to me that I always felt I was almost watching Disney cartoons, but at the same time there are definitely other edgier influences at work here. The fact that Ub’s staff of animators largely came from the Fleischer studio, and included Betty Boop’s creator, made the disagreement. Because of this, innuendo abounds in several of Flip’s cartoons, produced from 1930-1933 (pre-Code era) . One cartoon, « The Milkman » ends with Flip and the kid singing « Hail, Hail, the gang’s all here », and the horse responds by singing « What the hell do we care? « . The second time around, as the horse startes to squawk the same response, Flip bashes him over the head with a milk bottle to terminate him from using the « impish » word. Holy cow!!! Can you imagine Disney doing this? In « The Office Boy », the sexual innuendos hit a high, especially with the secretary. I was laughing for being taken by surprise. I didn’t query this sort of suppose. Well, fetch ready for an engrossing time. By the plot, unless I’m inaccurate, it seemed like Volume 2 was the one for the edgier cartoons. Willie Whopper’s cartoons are not too awful, really. They are ample tales told by a kid. Lastly, the Comi-Color cartoons, though fairly enjoyable, never measure up to the quality of Disney’s Comical symphonies. I’d have to say that they are probably the highest quality cartoons Ub produced.
Both DVD cases say that these cartoons are « now viewed for the first time on DVD in unfaded, pristine prints from the orginal negatives ». I must shriek! Many of these cartoons don’t scrutinize or sound pristine at all, but are in many cases archaic and dirty, with sound to match. It depends on the cartoons. Most of the Flip cartoons aren’t so abominable, the Willie Whopper ones are the worst of these two collections, and The Comi-Color cartoons all seem to have a softness about them (video and audio) . I’d say that perhaps this is the best we can find our hands on, but, really, to say « unfaded, pristine prints » is objective flat-out not the case. Overall, most of them are quite watchable, but honest sustain these observations in mind. I give both collections four stars due to the technical issues.
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