Fiddlesticks (1930)

Directed by

Ub Iwerks

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Flip the Frog plays a lively tune on a fiddle, hopping and dancing to the music in a colorful cartoon world. This is early sound animation from 1930, notable for being one of the first color cartoon shorts.

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What happens

Fiddlesticks is a theatrical animated short film directed and animated by Ub Iwerks, in his first cartoon since he departed from Walt Disney's studio. The short features Iwerks' character Flip the Frog. The short is the first complete, individual sound cartoon to be photographed in color, using the short-lived Harriscolor process. Fiddlesticks was released a few months after King of Jazz, a musical revue from Universal Pictures which included a two-strip Technicolor cartoon segment, animated by Walter Lantz & Bill Nolan of the Universal cartoon studio, featuring a caricature of the film's star Paul Whiteman (and a cameo by Iwerks creation Oswald the Lucky Rabbit). The copyright of the film was renewed in 1959, one of the few Flip cartoons to have their copyright renewed. It entered the public domain on January 1, 2026 as a work from 1930. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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