The ComiColor Cartoon series was a series of 25 animated short subject

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

s produced by the Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, creator of Mickey Mouse, and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....

 studio from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by the studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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 in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures (run by Pat Powers) had to distribute the films itself. The series was shot exclusively in Cinecolor

Cinecolor

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Most of the ComiColor entries were based upon popular fairy tales and other familiar stories, including Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

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, Old Mother Hubbard

Old Mother Hubbard

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, The Bremen Town Musicians

Town Musicians of Bremen

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, and The Headless Horseman

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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. Grim Natwick

Grim Natwick

Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American artist, animator and film director. Natwick is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studio's most popular character, Betty Boop.-Background:...

, Al Eugster

Al Eugster

Alfred Eugster was an American animator, writer, and film director, regarded as one of the greatest of all time...

, and Shamus Culhane

Shamus Culhane

James "Shamus" Culhane was an American animator, film director, and film producer.Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and the Walter Lantz studio. He began his animation career in 1925 working for J.R...

 were among the series' lead animator

Animator

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s/directors

Film director

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, and a number of the shorts were filmed using Iwerks' multiplane camera

Multiplane camera

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, which he built himself from the remains of a Chevrolet

Chevrolet

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 automobile

Automobile

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1933-34

Film	Original release date
Jack and the Beanstalk	November 30, 1933
The Little Red Hen	February 16, 1934
The Brave Tin Soldier	April 7
Puss in Boots	May 17
The Queen of Hearts	June 25
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp	August 10
The Headless Horseman	October 1
The Valiant Tailor	October 29
Don Quixote	November 26
Jack Frost	December 24

1935

Film	Original release date
Little Black Sambo Little Black Sambo (cartoon) Little Black Sambo was a 1935 animated film, based on the controversial children's book of the same name. This film was created at the Iwerks Studio, and released by Celebrity. The film marked the first appearance of an unnamed dog, who appeared in three of Iwerks' films.-Plot:Sambo's mother is...	February 6, 1935
The Bremen Town Musicians	March 6
Old Mother Hubbard	April 3
Mary's Little Lamb	May 1
Summertime	June 15
Sinbad the Sailor Sinbad the Sailor (1935 film) Sinbad the Sailor was a 1935 animated short film produced by the well-known Ub Iwerks of Disney Studios....	July 30
The Three Bears	August 30
Balloon Land Balloon Land Balloon Land, also known as The Pincushion Man, is a 1935 animated short film produced by Ub Iwerks as part of the ComiColor Cartoons series. The cartoon is about a place called Balloon Land, whose residents are made entirely out of balloons...	September 30
Simple Simon	November 15
Humpty Dumpty	December 30

1936

Film	Original release date
Ali Baba	January 30, 1936
Tom Thumb	March 30
Dick Whittington's Cat	May 30
Little Boy Blue	July 30
Happy Days	September 30

See also

• The Golden Age of American animation
  The Golden Age of American animation
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• Cartune Classics
• Color Classics
  Color Classics
  Color Classics were a series of animated short subjects produced by Fleischer Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941 as a competitor to Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies. As the name implies, all of the shorts were made in color, with the first entry in the series, Poor Cinderella, being the...
  
  
• Color Rhapsodies
  Color Rhapsodies
  Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies...
  
  
• Happy Harmonies
  Happy Harmonies
  Happy Harmonies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising between 1934 and 1938....
  
  
• Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
  
  
• Rainbow Parade
  Rainbow Parade
  Rainbow Parade was a series of 27 animated shorts produced by Van Beuren Studios between 1934 and 1936. This was Van Beuren's all-color series....
  
  
• Silly Symphonies
  Silly Symphonies
  Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles...