Color Rhapsody

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The title card for these shorts.

Color Rhapsody is a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz's studio Screen Gems for Columbia Pictures.[1] They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies and Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies. Because of Disney's exclusive rights to the full three strip Technicolor process, Color Rhapsody were produced in the older two-tone Technicolor process until 1935, when Disney's exclusive contract expired.

The Color Rhapsody series is most notable for introducing the characters of The Fox and the Crow in the 1941 short The Fox and the Grapes. Two Color Rhapsody shorts, Holiday Land (1934) and The Little Match Girl (1937), were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).[2]

Filmography[]

1930s[]

Title Release date Director Character(s) Notes
Holiday Land November 11, 1934 Scrappy Academy Award nominee
Babes at Sea December 12, 1934 Arthur Davis
The Shoemaker and the Elves January 19, 1935 Arthur Davis
Make Believe Revue March 25, 1935 Ben Harrison
A Cat, a Mouse and a Bell May 14, 1935 Arthur Davis
June 26, 1935 Sid Marcus
August 17, 1935 Arthur Davis and Sid Marcus
September 14, 1935 Arthur Davis
October 13, 1935 Ben Harrison
January 18, 1936 Ben Harrison Scrappy
February 17, 1936 Arthur Davis The Bugz World
April 5, 1936 Ben Harrison The Bugz World
May 28, 1936 Arthur Davis
June 14, 1936 Ub Iwerks
July 13, 1936 Sid Marcus Scrappy
August 13, 1936 Ben Harrison Scrappy
September 12, 1936 Ben Harrison
A Boy and His Dog October 11, 1936 Sid Marcus Sparky
November 15, 1936 Ben Harrison
December 12, 1936 Ben Harrison
January 24, 1937 Ub Iwerks Very similar to The Skeleton Dance, also drawn by Iwerks.
February 13, 1937 Ub Iwerks
Let's Go March 16, 1937 Ben Harrison The Bugz World
May 7, 1937 Sid Marcus
May 16, 1937 Ub Iwerks
June 12, 1937 Sid Marcus
July 17, 1937 Sid Marcus
August 10, 1937 Ben Harrison
September 20, 1937 Sid Marcus Sparky
October 17, 1937 Sid Marcus
November 6, 1937 Arthur Davis and Sid Marcus (uncredited) Academy Award nominee
November 22, 1937 Arthur Davis (uncredited)
December 12, 1937 Ben Harrison
January 16, 1938 Ub Iwerks
February 14, 1938 Ben Harrison Sparky
March 13, 1938 Ub Iwerks
April 16, 1938 Sid Marcus
May 15, 1938 Ben Harrison
Window Shopping June 8, 1938 Sid Marcus
July 4, 1938 Ben Harrison The Bugz World
July 23, 1938 Sid Marcus
August 10, 1938 Ub Iwerks
August 27, 1938 Arthur Davis
September 26, 1938 Ben Harrison Sparky
October 12, 1938 Ub Iwerks
November 12, 1938 Sid Marcus
December 25, 1938 Ben Harrison
January 29, 1939 Sid Marcus
February 21, 1939 Ub Iwerks
March 25, 1939 Ben Harrison
The House That Jack Built April 16, 1939 Sid Marcus
May 16, 1939 Ben Harrison
June 21, 1939 Ub Iwerks
July 22, 1939 Ben Harrison
August 12, 1939 Sid Marcus
September 22, 1939 Ub Iwerks
October 20, 1939 Sid Marcus
November 12, 1939 Manny Gould
December 18, 1939 Manny Gould

1940s[]

Title Release date Director Character(s) Notes
January 13, 1940 Ben Harrison Sparky New products process the recording studio televisions Makedonia TV.
February 6, 1940 Ben Harrison
March 13, 1940 Ub Iwerks
April 13, 1940 Sid Marcus
May 21, 1940 Ub Iwerks
June 22, 1940 Ub Iwerks
July 16, 1940 Ben Harrison
August 14, 1940 Sid Marcus
October 14, 1940 Arthur Davis
November 3, 1940 Sid Marcus Maisey
December 8, 1940 Ub Iwerks
January 14, 1941 Sid Marcus
February 22, 1941 Arthur Davis
March 15, 1941 Paul Fennell Mr. Teewilliger Outsourced to Cartoon Films Limited. Labeled as a "Mr. Teewilliger" cartoon
April 19, 1941 Sid Marcus
June 16, 1941 Sid Marcus Tom Thumb
July 23, 1941 Sid Marcus
November 17, 1941 Sid Marcus
December 6, 1941 Frank Tashlin The Fox and the Crow
December 21, 1941 Sid Marcus
January 24, 1942 Frank Tashlin
February 22, 1942
March 24, 1942
May 17, 1942 Alec Geiss
July 6, 1942 Bob Wickersham The Fox and the Crow
September 8, 1942 Bob Wickersham
October 20, 1942 Bob Wickersham The Fox and the Crow
November 23, 1942 Bob Wickersham
December 22, 1942 John Hubley and
January 16, 1943 Bob Wickersham The Fox and the Crow
February 23, 1943 Alec Geiss
March 28, 1943 John Hubley and Paul Sommer Professor Small and Mr. Tall
April 19, 1943 Bob Wickersham The Fox and the Crow
June 21, 1943 Bob Wickersham The Fox and the Crow
July 25, 1943 John Hubley and Paul Sommer
August 23, 1943 Bob Wickersham The Fox and the Crow
October 20, 1943 Paul Sommer The cartoon is noticeable for its similarities to Chuck Jones' The Dover Boys, a short released by Warner Bros. the previous year.
November 16, 1943 Bob Wickersham Academy Award nominee
January 23, 1944
June 13, 1944
January 15, 1945 Howard Swift Flippy, Flop, Sam the Dog Academy Award nominee
June 20, 1945 Bob Wickersham Studio's final Academy Award nominee
July 12, 1945 Bob Wickersham Tito and His Burrito
August 6, 1945 Howard Swift
September 8, 1945 Howard Swift Willoughby Wren
October 4, 1945 Paul Sommer Professor Small and Mr. Tall
April 25, 1946 Howard Swift
June 20, 1946 Bob Wickersham Tito and His Burrito
January 9, 1947 Howard Swift
February 1947 Bob Wickersham
Big House Blues March 6, 1947 Howard Swift Flippy, Flop
March 29, 1947 Bob Wickersham
July 10, 1947 Sid Marcus
[3] September 11, 1947 Sid Marcus
December 4, 1947 Sid Marcus
March 18, 1948 Alex Lovy
September 2, 1948
November 14, 1948 Alex Lovy
February 2, 1949 Sid Marcus
April 14, 1949 Alex Lovy The Fox and the Crow
June 30, 1949 Sid Marcus Final Screen Gems Cartoon

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 170–171. ISBN 9781476672939.
  3. ^ Maltin, Leonard (1987). Of Mice and Magic (revised edition). p. 418. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.

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