History of Animation Flip the Frog

[@sunbreakere1236]

Flip is an interesting character that doesn't get brought up enough. As of know I doubt he will ever return to animation or in any capacity, but it would be cool if he did. What do you think, should he make a comeback or just stay in the past.

[@BeautyGoddess-cz6cz]

Flip should make a comeback. Btw, he was originally named Tony, but why didn’t his creator, Ub Iwerks, like the name?

[@CoffyThecat]

@@BeautyGoddess-cz6czhe is making comeback some people are trying to create a cartoon for him

[@BeautyGoddess-cz6cz]

@@CoffyThecat I am looking forward to this. However, I don’t know why Ub Iwerks disliked the name Tony as Flip’s original name.

[@DigitalPizza]

Poor Flip doesn't get enough love.

[@joanhill4666]

I love Flip! 🙋

[@HANNAHLUMERIA-it5rw]

Self love, the group is just raking cash , he's fabulous , just adjective m selective

[@ilovetron90]

Bosko

[@KKermit76235]

YEAH

[@RandomCrapIUpload]

@@ilovetron90wasn't bosko a racial caricature though?

[@yosefdemby8792]

I personally think Flip had a semi-consistent if not consistent personality: jaunty, a rakish romantic, a musical soul, a busker, a troubadour, but also rambunctious and sadistic, a self-promoting ambitious showoff.

[@TopChickon]

I got into animation because of Flip the Frog. He was so funny to the point were i made a frog character inspired by Flip

[@No-hd4cg]

“Flip received a major redesign by Grim Natwick, who would go on to create Betty Boop” actually by the time Flip was created Natwick had already created Betty in fact Natwick left Fleischer in 1931 to work at Iwerks

[@sunbreakere1236]

You are extremely correct. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[@davidwesley2525]

​@@sunbreakere1236Grim Natwick went on to Animate Walt Disney's Snow White. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@thetimturnershow2883]

Very well informed video about a relatively obscure character created by one of the most influential artists to come out of the 20th century.

[@cyberspere]

8:01 actually, the first cartoon with the redesigned flip was "The new car" from 1931.

[@ryanhoward3383]

Thunderbean is in the process of producing a DVD set with the entire Flip the Frog series. They're still waiting for some people to finish up commentaries on selected cartoons (among other things). I don't know a release date for it yet (they probably don't know either)

[@james739123]

I first saw these cartoon on a channel on Turkish TV in the early 2009s as well as some Loony toons and Tom and Jerry

[@shihanafridhi9517]

Wow, you saw these in the modern age?!?

[@canversink.2841]

His more human design actually first appeared in "Movie Mad" (1931) & actually MGM released "Puddle Pranks" & they didn't like the first 3. So "Fiddle Sticks", "Flying Fist", & "Little Orphan Willie" were released by Celebrity Productions inc.

[@Simon-dv4]

His redesign first appeared in the new car, the short before movie made.

[@moroniaguilar7431]

Julius the cat next?

[@yosefdemby8792]

7:12 Define "cartoon". Walter Lantz produced a two-and-a-half-minute animated segment for the 1930 film The King of Jazz. It was the first piece of animation in Technicolor. The movie was released on April 19th, 1930.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Sure but in terms of an fully animated short Ub was first since the film that had Oswald was live action other then the segment.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@stephenholloway6893 Define "fully-animated short".

[@stephenholloway6893]

@yosefdemby8792 King of Jazz was live action apart of the segment. The segment itself wasn't released separately from the film. Yes Lantz was the first to use sound and color in animation but the difference was that Fiddlesticks was released as a short instead as part of a film.

[@frankyanish4833]

I’ve seen Flip in several cartoons made on the Amiga platform.

[@larryaldrich4351]

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy.

[@CECandCartoonian]

Scrappy's a good one and yes I'm one of those people who knows about very obscure cartoons by playlists.

[@No-hd4cg]

0:42 *1919

[@sunbreakere1236]

Was it not 1919? That's what I said in the video.

[@No-hd4cg]

@@sunbreakere1236 it just sounded like you said 1990.

[@higbeeproductions2340]

Mmm… I bet if one day I get the right to the character I could probably develop him more

[@marcschirmeister9821]

What's interesting about "Soda Squirt" is the music track was lifted from two store-bought '78 rpm records released by Victor, at the time the leading manufacturer of phonographs and records. Iwerks did it to cut costs. Iwerks contemporaries, the Fleischer Brothers were also doing the same thing in their "Talkartoon" series, using phonograph records to score parts of their cartoons. In fact, they pioneered the idea and stopped because they hadn't obtained the rights to the records they used, and record companies threatened legal action over being ripped off. That last cartoon to use a phonograph record on the soundtrack was Tex Avery's "Shhhhh" from 1957. He used the famous Okay Laughing Record, which was in the public domain, so he didn't have to buy the rights to it.

[@jamesbobo]

Surprised you made no mention of his Comi-Color cartoons.

[@reeddunnagan]

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNEW ABOUT THIS GUY

[@kimzchaos]

If Flip the frog is back, let me know

[@fredyrodriguez8881]

I hope Kiko the Kangaroo is next

[@sunbreakere1236]

That's not a bad idea, might just add it to my list of future videos.

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

What's that?

[@KoryGilesYT]

@@superpokemonbros.9441Kiko the Kangaroo was a character created by Paul Terry, the same guy who created Farmer Alfalfa, Mighty Mouse, and Heckle and Jeckle.

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

@@KoryGilesYT thanks 😊

[@KoryGilesYT]

@@superpokemonbros.9441 You’re welcome!

[@dorothytheuyfanatic5118]

Flip the Frog is definitely worth giving credit for in terms of what his shorts did, but as a character, he’s pretty bland and his personality is inconsistent. His shorts are also kinda a mixed bag for me, some I liked, some dislike and others are mid.

[@TheloniousCube]

Did Flip make an appearance in Roger Rabbit?

[@sunbreakere1236]

I don't think he did, but I could be wrong.

[@TheloniousCube]

@@sunbreakere1236 That's too bad - they had a lot of older characters in the margins of that film

[@CharlesBennettProductions2021]

Wilfred Jackson and Les Clark also staryed loyal not just Ub.

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

11:19. Which Flip Cartoon did you get this clip from? I nearly got an aneurysm trying to find it. I checked every single Flip Cartoon available, or maybe I wasn't looking hard enough

[@Simon-dv4]

Movie mad

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

@@Simon-dv4 thank you