Ub Iwerks

Mickey is piloting a steamboat when Captain Pete comes to the bridge and throws him off. They stop to pick up cargo. Minnie just misses the boat and Mickey uses the crane to grab her. She drops her sheet music of "Turkey in the Straw" and a goat eats it... (imdb)

Flip the Frog was Iwerks' first creation. He made his debut appearance in "Fiddlesticks." In this cartoon, Iwerks supplied Flip with a bow tie and buttons, but there is no mistaking that Flip is a frog. When he first appears in "Fiddlesticks," Flip hops on all fours from one lily pad to the next as he crosses a pond. And he doesn't talk. He croaks... (ImagesJournal.com)

Mammy gives Little Black Sambo a quick scrub on the washboard, then pats him down with baby powder, black baby powder, before sending him off to play. She warns him about the tiger... (imdb)

The inhabitants, including the trees and rocks, of Balloon Land are made entirely of balloons. They come under attack from the evil Pincushion Man. With the help of a quickly inflated army, they manage to fend off the attack. (imdb)

An overdose of gas at the dentist's office causes Willie to float like a balloon. He floats out of the office, through the stratosphere, and into outer space. There, he meets an alien scientist who has created a ray gun that will immediately process pigs and cows into cuts of meat... (imagesjournal.com)

Aladdin is a child laborer who works for a guy that exchanges "new lamps for old". This guy swaps a "new" lamp for 2-3 replacement old lamps, then brings back the old lamps for Aladdin to polish and make look like new. One day Aladdin sees a princess riding by as he looks out the window, and he falls for her. But then he must return to his lamp polishing... (imdb)

A musical rendition of the Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tale where a brave tin soldier with only one leg and a toy ballerina find happiness. (imdb)

FLIP THE FROG, who is basically a walking, talking, white glove, bow- tie & short-pants wearing little black frog. In this outing, Flip is introduced to us as he is reading up on how to become a movie director, which essentially comes down to dressing up like Charlie Chaplin! (imdb comments)

A comically ridiculously altered version of the classic tale, in which Don Quixote is victorious over his imaginary enemies and emits Tarzan-like yells of triumph. (imdb)

Flip schemes to get himself hired as an office boy at the Screwy Nuts & Bolts factory, especially because of the attractive typist. He starts well, using a cat's tongue to lick a stack of envelopes.(imdb)

Old Mother Hubbard is the laundress for the king, but when she finds her cupboard bare, her dog travels to the palace where he winds up performing for the king. (imdb)

Satan and the demons gather for a wild party. After the demons play music, Satan has them "milk" burning flames out of a dragon cow and he drinks them. He then feeds one of his little demons to his three-headed hound Cerberus. The other one runs away and eventually kicks Satan off a cliff where he is consumed by flames. (imdb)

Ali Baba senior and his son Ali Baba live in poverty. One day they happen to see the Forty Thieves enter their cave. After the thieves leave, Ali Baba and his son enter the cave and start to fill their pockets with the treasure they find inside. Alas for them, the Forty Thieves return and they are forced to hide in large jars. But of course they are discovered... (imdb)

Playing cards come to life. As in the nursery rhyme, the queen of hearts bakes some tarts; the jack of hearts steals them. (imdb)

An animated version of the children's story.

The animated story of Tom Thumb

Playing hide-and-seek with her dog, young Goldilocks scampers away into the woods and stumbles upon a lovely little house. Unbeknownst to her, a family of bears live there. The bears, however, have gone to do something in the woods. Goldilocks spills their food, breaks their furniture, and generally creates havoc in their house, before settling in for a nap in the one remaining usable bed. What she doesn't know is that the bears are coming back, and when they get back....... (imdb)

As in the nursery rhyme, Simple Simon meets a pieman on his way to the fair and samples his wares. However, when he makes no purchase, the pieman becomes angry, follows Simon to the fair, and makes his stay there miserable. (imdb)

The Big Bad Wolf stalks Little Bo Peep's and steals one of her sheep. She enlists Little Boy Blue and a dancing scarecrow to assist her and her mischievous black sheep in rescuing it. Singing, dancing, hilarity and impalement ensue. (imdb)

A young grizzly bear, undaunted by his mother's warnings of the coming winter, runs away from home only to be confronted by Old Man Winter himself. (imdb)

Mickey Mouse enlists in an army of mice defending a barn against an army of cats in a World War I-inspired battle.

Inspired by Lindbergh's Flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip with some necking, but Minnie objects the necking. (imdb)

Mickey rides up to a cantina and does a tango with Minnie. When a big cat steals her away, Mickey gives chase, riding a drunken ostrich. At the hideout, Mickey has a swordfight with the cat. (imdb)

Horace pulls a wagon with a a small pipe organ, with Mickey at the keys; a sign on the side reads "Mickey's Big Road Show." They arrive, and Mickey's suitcase labeled "Jazz Fool" unfolds to a piano, which he plays (and sings about 8 notes). At the end, the piano attacks him. There is no dialogue, aside from the nonsense syllables sung. (imdb)

Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (coal), then feeds his dog, then makes lunch for himself. Minnie drops by and plays a tune on her fiddle while Mickey dances. After lunch, the train has trouble climbing a hill, and the last car with Minnie aboard detaches and runs away. (imdb)

Mickey is selling hot dogs at a carnival next to the tent for Minnie the Shimmy Dancer. He gets into an argument with the barker. Minnie beckons him over to her trailer; he shows off the tricks his pups have been trained to do, and she picks one. It climbs onto the bun but runs away when she bites in. Later that evening, Mickey plays guitar and two cats sing outside Minnie's window; they eventually awaken someone, who throws things at them until they stop. (imdb)

Mickey goes about his farm chores, plowing with Horace and milking Clarabelle, while Minnie sings (until Mickey kisses her, when she stalks off). Clarabelle gets too friendly with Mickey, forcing him to wrap her tongue around her snout. A bee stings Horace and he gallops off uncontrollably, breaking Mickey's plow. (imdb)

Mickey puts on a show in his barnyard. A short dramatic scene by a chicken and rooster; an operatic ode by Patricia Pig, and then the main attraction: Mickey sings and plays his theme song, then dances to it. (imdb)

Animated take on the classic nursery rhyme.

Mickey runs a small theatre. The orchestra plays, rather badly, excerpts from Carmen. Mickey appears as a snake charmer, but the snake is revealed to be a cat with a snake's head painted on its tail. Mickey does a belly dance, to the audience's delight. Mickey then plays the piano, but the piano and stool, apparently annoyed at the violence and complexity of the piece, kick him off stage. (imdb)

Flip pulls up at his girlfriend's house in a cricket-drawn carriage. They play the harmonica and they ride along until they are attacked by a pelican. The cricket is eaten, but Flip and his girl escape. They then go swimming in a nearby swimming hole. The pelican spots them and tries again to eat them, but is swallowed by a giant fish when he dives in the water. (imdb)

Flip the Frog is a café employee who performs with the band, makes soup and delivers food to patrons. (imdb)

When a cat's horse throws a shoe while pulling her carriage, she enlists in the help of a blacksmith in re-shoeing her horse. (imdb)

Flip the Frog works the town barbershop. (imdb)

Flip makes mischief during his piano lesson. (imdb)

Pinhead is ridiculed by the other boys on the way to the fishing hole. (imdb)

Willie tells his friends that he was once a pilot in an air race. (imdb)

Sinbad battles a band of pirates at sea and on a tropical isle. A giant bird rescues him, and he ends up back on his ship with the pirates' treasure. (imdb)

Willie is shining the shoes of a man reading the newspaper. The cover story is features a wrestler, inspiring Willie to tell a whopper about fighting the man and winning. (imdb)

Willie tells his friend that he was once a cowboy. (imdb)

Jack sells the family cow for magic beans which grow a vine into the sky. (imdb)

When the kittens of Puss in Boots are saved from drowning by a bagpiper, the cat offers to help the man rescue a princess as repayment of his debt. (imdb)

A tailor aides his king, who is threatened by a giant and a swarm of bees. (imdb)

Flip the frog is on the case after the Cuckoo from a cuckoo clock has been murdered.

Flip is trying to sneak out of the "Grand Slam Hotel" without paying his bill. Along the way, he runs into several naked women, is chased by the landlady and a cop and all kind of crazy sight gags are offered along the way. (imdb)

First, a bum comes along and steals their hat and replaces it with his flea-bitten one. Later, they are tormented at a diner when a hamburger comes to life! Later, after selling their instruments so they can get something to eat, they see a blind man begging on the street. (imdb comments)

"Bully" is a Bluto-type - you know: big, gruff guy with a cigar, small bowler hat, needs a shave....Here, he picks a fight with poor Flip. Before you know it, a neutral party comes along, shows the two guys a sign advertising "boxing to-night" and advises them to take it to the arena, where at least they could pick up some bucks if they're going to fight (imdb comments)

Flip the Frog gets a face-lift. (imdb comments)

Flip the Frog is a police officer on the trail of the notorious Chinese criminal, Chow Mein. (imdb)

Willie Whopper and his dog visit Hell, where they meet Satan, Cerberus, and some of the infamous members of the damned. (imdb)

Flip is a lazy frog who just wants to lounge around in his hammock. But being the great inventor he is (at least in this cartoon), he has it rigged up so that another animal below is running on a treadmill which gently rocks the hammock. (imdb comments)

Flip is the owner of a brand new drug store, and you'd think it was the Academy Awards night. There is a spotlight, a red carpet and a list of celebrities that all show up for this momentous occasion. (imdb comments)

Early color animated short of an adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Flip the Frog finds himself in a house haunted by crazy skeletons. (imdb)

Flip the Frog is working as a hot dog vendor at a circus. A thief steals a woman's purse and it's up to Flip to stop him. (imdb)

Someone spit (Flip The Frog) and the saliva turns into a tiny human who then dances on the ship deck; someone (Flip) roll up their sleeves and get a complete dance routine out of a tattoo and then the owner slaps the buttocks of the female dancer; a skunk comes out of an accordion, gets thrown in the sea and fish all jump out and run on top of the water while holding their noses! (imdb comments)

A 1930s remake of Disney's The Skeleton Dance.

In Ub Iwerks' The Frog Pond, many frogs are singing and having a good time until a big bully frog takes some food and basically orders a house built on his lily pond.

Porky and Gabby are driving off to a camping vacation. But between a road rage incident and some trouble negotiating hills... (imdb)

Flip the Frog is a game hunter in Africa. He has an encounter with some cannibals who take him to their king for dinner ... (youtube)

It's all about an army of anthropomorphic germs that are out to infect a family but thanks to the Good Health Brigade, everyone lives happily ever after!

The bugs of summer frolic and dance. (imdb)

The season series of Silly Symphonies continues, with squirrels storing nuts and corn, crows stealing it, beavers building a dam, ducks migrating, and the like, as the first snows fall. (imdb)

A collection of arctic animals (seals, walruses, polar bears, penguins) float by on ice floes and on shore, performing various musical numbers. (imdb)

Porky owns a full-service gas station; he deals with a wide variety of problems, like a bump that migrates to different parts of the car... (imdb)

Flip has been caught in flagranti with the bullfighter's girlfriend, now he must fight the matador and the even meaner bull. (youtube)

Flip The Frog and his pals work at a fire station and is called out to stop a fire in this Ub Iwerks animation short. (imdb)

Flip is a stagecoach driver. A villain, politically incorrect-looking bandit Bronx Cheerio (for whom there's a $10,000 reward, dead or alive), holds up the stagecoach and takes the female passenger until Flip steps up and rescues her. (imdb)

Flip's lunchtime picnic with his sweetheart (a human one) is interrupted by an Indian attack. The buffoonish "Injuns" drive them to a log cabin with their arrows, and there's a grand shootout. Eventually, though, they are tied to a stake with whooping, war-chanting, Indians threatening to make an end of them until the woodland creatures mount a counter-offensive to free them. The Indians get the tar knocked out of them as they flee the countryside. A cabin slides off a cliff and goes ker-blooie! (bcdb.com)

This cartoon about how Flip, the village handyman gets called in to deal with a piece of plumbing that won't stop leaking is well constructed, paced and drawn -- the Rube Goldberg pipes in the cellar are quite a sight. (imdb)

Flip is a jail warden who has to deal with an escaped convict. Working with his horse, who seems almost as intelligent as he is, it has some amazing moments. Look in the background for two goats playing horseshoes, using their wooden legs as the pegs- not quite politically correct today. It even includes a scene where the convict is hiding as a store dummy, a routine lifted from Buster Keaton, and later used by the Three Stooges, although not quite as "rubbery" as Flip does it. (imdb)

A mouse mother refuses to accept another baby mouse as her kid. The stork decides it's best to place it on Flip's doorstep. Is he man enough to handle the little brat? (imdb)

Braggart Willie Whopper pictures himself in the Stone Age, swinging on vines like Tarzan and vanquishing a dinosaur to save his girl.

Told in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins in the store learn this, they arrange surprises for the couple with nearly every piece of merchandise in the store coming to life. (imdb)

The technicalities are topnotch, with some excellent Technicolor work, but this vaguely anti-foxhunting story has some basset pups winding up chasing a fox by accident, and one of them gets into all sorts of trouble when the fox captures him and takes him home to his kits in a sack.

A mouse and a cuckoo bird, skeptical about the existence of ghosts, are startled by a midnight visit from a sextet of spirits, all men who once wooed a Florador show-girl. The specters do a song-and-dance routine from the gay-90's era of show-business. They all fade away at dawn, leaving the mouse and the cuckoo bird less-convinced skeptics than they were before the witching hour. (imdb)

Weary of his running-in-circles existence as a merry-go-round horse, the little hobby-horse gets a case of wanderlust. That night he gets out after the fair has closed and takes in the world of the Crazy House, the Wax Museum, the Ferris Wheel and a roller coaster. Battered and beaten from his adventures, he concludes he is better off on his stand at the merry-go-round. (imdb)

A spoof of those "No, No, A Thousand Times No!" melodramas.

Gran' Pop Monkey and The Three Monkeys decide to open a jungle beauty parlor, but a tough-guy gorilla comes in with his fat hippopotamus girlfriend and demands that they make her lose a lot of weight in a very short time span.

An owl seeking to add some meat to his dinner adopts several disguises to get into a party being held by some musical bats. They are not fooled for long and the owl ends up in his own cauldron. (imdb)

In this episode of A Color Rhapsody, the blackboard drawings come alive, as the characters on screen gather together for class. This Columbia classroom tale features a jungle sequence, musical segment and a story-within-a-story structure, differentiated by the style of the cartoon world and the 'blackboard' world within.

Stranded on a tropical island, Willie meets a topless hula-dancing girl! There's also some rather politically incorrect fun with black native cannibals. Both Willie and the cannibal king have eyes for the girl.

A farmer 'hires' two scarecrows to guard his crops against voracious attacks by a flock of crows. During one attack a baby crow falls into the farmer's water well, and the scarecrows save its life. The grateful crows pledge to leave the farmer's cornfield alone in the future, and set about to repair some of the damage they have just done. (imdb)

Professor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the north wind blow and what makes snow. As the good professor starts to explain this phenomenon, the scene shits to the North Pole where little dwarfs are shown in the process of making snow, thunder and wind.

The Christmas celebration of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

A pompous British explorer narrates this cartoon about his efforts to trap a gorilla.

Gran'pop monkey runs a printing press while evading the advances of his amorous secretary and suffering the mischievousness of the two young family members who assist him.

In a sequel to "The Gorilla Hunt" (1939), an explorer travels to the Gobi Desert in search of a prehistoric dinosaur egg.

Mice get into trouble with toys and record players in a closed toy store.

Two tramp crows laze around all year until winter comes and they have to go south. The duo are put to the curb by everyone with sense, until they are caught in the freeze. Friendly Mr. Squirrel graciously takes them in, but have our crows learned their lesson?

Scrappy and Oppie dream that they take a rocket trip to Mars. There they meet some nice Martian girls. When they want to go home, the Martians will not let them leave the planet.

Gran’pop Monkey opens a nursery, but the mischievous baby animals overwhelm him and his two assistants.