{"id":280,"date":"2008-07-07T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T20:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-08-07T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T20:30:30","slug":"flip-the-frog-in-fiddlesticks-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/flip-the-frog-in-fiddlesticks-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CARTOON CRYPT: Flip the Frog in Fiddlesticks (1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/headers\/cartooncrypt.gif\" alt=\"THE CARTOON CRYPT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only two of Ub Iwerks&#8217; Flip the Frog cartoons were made in color, and one of them was the first one, <em>Fiddlesticks<\/em>, seen below. I&#8217;ve always preferred the early Flip design to the later one&#8230; he looks much more like a frog, and much funnier. I would guess the design was changed so it would be easier to animate him turning his head&#8230; the designs are so different they don&#8217;t even resemble each other. If you want to see the later design, <a href=\"http:\/\/comicrazys.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/09\/flip-the-frog-coloring-book-the-ub-iwerks-studio\/\">check out the coloring book posted at Comicrazys.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?cat=68\">I&#8217;ve also posted a number of Flip the Frog and other Ub Iwerks cartoons previously that can be seen here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the apparent Mickey Mouse rip-off late in this cartoon&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ub_Iwerks\">since Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse a couple years before this was made, it hardly seems like a rip-off, though. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TCt7xQ4kRRM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcdb.com\/cartoon\/3622-Fiddlesticks.html\">Read more about this cartoon on the Big Cartoon Database here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ub_Iwerks\">Read more about Ub Iwerks on Wikipedia here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only two of Ub Iwerks&#8217; Flip the Frog cartoons were made in color, and one of them was the first one, Fiddlesticks, seen below. I&#8217;ve always preferred the early Flip design to the later one&#8230; he looks much more like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/flip-the-frog-in-fiddlesticks-1930\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon_crypt","category-ub-iwerks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-4w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}