Laughing in 1932

BY GARY SCOTT BEATTY, PUBLISHER AND EDITOR, MUSKEGONONLINE.NET

After co-creating Mickey Mouse, Ub Iwerks left Walt Disney to open his own studio in 1930, producing Flip the Frog shorts.

Adult supervision required for Nurse Maid (1932). Note to children, do NOT: let baby eat coins; shake baby; shove your arm down baby's throat; or let baby eat bottles of strange medicine. If I, with my Scottish descent, can laugh at the cheap Scottsman here, I hope we can all also laugh at the Chinaman and the Native American, because Flip is one of the funniest humor series stars from 1930s cartoons!

The Milkman (1932). Milk deliveries were common in 1930s America, due to the lack of refrigeration in homes. 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.

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