by Gary Scott Beatty, Publisher and Editor, MuskegonOnline.NET
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This month we guy-theme, with Flip the Frog playing real football, 1933 style, and saving the girl in ocean adventure in Stormy Seas.
Ub Iwerks was a two-time Academy Award winning animator who
co-created Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney and was Walt Disney's
collaborator in the formative years of Disney's studio (Steamboat
Willie, Plane Crazy). Iwerks opened his own studio in 1930, under
contract with MGM, producing Flip the Frog shorts, the Willie Whopper
series and more.
The Goal Rush, 1932. With no shoulder pads
and a simple leather helmet, Flip flirts with a flapper, then bites,
burrows and mayhems his Nertz team to victory. Flip may seem a little
audacious, but so was Mickey Mouse in the early cartoons Iwerks produced
with Disney. He is relatively well behaved here, compared to some of
his other exploits.
Stormy Seas. Flip does guy stuff, like spitting
tobacco, flexing the tattoo on his wrist, punching out a swordfish, and
rescuing the girl. Sure it's goofy, that's the charm of early cartoons
-- anything can happen for a laugh.
