Flip The Frog - Fiddlesticks (1930)

[Mr300Jason]

imagine family guy in those days hitler wud laugh

[steelbell54]

Watching This High Is Crazy .

[goldkirin1995]

That frog brings me to laugher

[ianb3432]

WHY IS THE FROG QUACKING LIKE A DUCK?

[yummieyummie123]

I liked this design best of flip.

[SuperFlameRing]

Needs cats and boobs.

[rfgorujgqporijq]

When i see this i want to jump into a pit of flaming oil then be eaten by a lama then u can revive to shoot me in the skull with a nerf gun until i die

[xRedEyesJounouchix]

Ub Iwerks was the best animatior ever lived~

[LordEn7roPy]

That frog is me on a good day

[SuppleBrony]

Chriddof brought me here.

[Nodog438]

1:15 Huge Oswald the Lucky Rabbit reference on the left

[mskeahan]

Not enough Crowstorm...

[TheSickvicious]

loock this moment 4:09 the Frog is Iwerks and The Mouse is Walt Disney represent the big work of Iwerks but a Disney Hates and jellous

[mau571]

that fiddle needs more AP items, he won't get any kills like that

[gotisc]

A 5 minute commercial???? Never mind, I'll go do something else

[CherProductions]

Iwerks shouldn't have quit on Disney- this is the same thing as any other Disney's silly symphonies, except Walt did it better...

[diewasseratte]

Iwerks worked with Disney and helped animate Mortimer (Mickey Mouse) before he went to work at MGM. There was a lot of character theft back then, hence the Mickey Mouse look-alike. As a matter of fact, Disney's first cartoon star Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was stolen by Mintz at Universal, along with most of the Disney Animators.

[tonicrocks26]

This is an MGM cartoon? Why the fuck is mickey mouse there?

[1947Desoto]

@tonicrocks26 Flip the Frog is a creation of the animation genious Ub Iwerks, who in 1930 had recently quit working with Walt Disney.

[InfernalMisanthropy]

@tonicrocks26 cos it was ub iwerks who made mickey mouse and its unique style

[Kibate]

Dude, the way he moves is High Octane Nightmare Fuel(and why does he sound liek a duck?)

[adisonE01]

Whats wrong with this frog and her "Quack, quack" ???

[1prettyricky]

strong splash

[21180]

2:22 ahaha

[WytZox1]

This looks like 1 of those gay cartoons that the so-called "king of cartoons" used to show on PeeWee's Playhouse. Some king; he never even showed the entire cartoon!

[WytZox1]

This looks like 1 of those gay cartoons that the so-called "king of cartoons" used to show on PeeWee's Playhouse. some king; he never even showed the entire cartoon!

[MrMittendorf]

I'm confused. I thought that the first colored animated short was "Flowers and Trees," in 1932 by Disney, but here is a color cartoon from 1930. Is my history that far off the mark?

[headexplodie]

@MrMittendorf You're pretty close actually. "Flowers and Trees" was the first cartoon to utilize Technicolor's 3 strip process which allowed for the full color spectrum. Other studios in the 1930s were limited to 2 color processes. Disney signed an exclusive deal with Technicolor in 1932 so that his studio was the only one that could have access to the new 3 strip process until 1935.

[MrMittendorf]

@headexplodie I truly appreciate your swift and comprehensive reply. It helps a lot for me to know things like this.

Cheers!

[L3v1stus]

@MrMittendorf you're not completely wrong :) "Flowers and Trees" it's the first animated short in "three strip" technicolor, and de-facto it's the first short animated film in full color. Here you can notice that colors are not vivid as in "Flowers & Trees" :)

[MrMittendorf]

@L3v1stus Thanks!

[mrSvartberg]

thumbs upp if random lol vids made you end upp here : P

[vicdmise]

Apparently this was just as boring 80 years ago as it is now. According to Chuck Jones, Flip flopped 'cause Ub Iwerks was a brilliant animator but not funny. I gotta agree.

[Mut1LateD]

Thumbs up if u expected Something like the fiddlesticks most of u know at league of legends :p

[sangetzuu]

am i on drugs or does the frog really sounds like a duck??

[silentnightcrawler13]

@sangetzuu i dont know if you are, but that frog is

[Siggees]

@jsalcomm1 actually, this mouse was created a few years after mickey..same illustrator though..

[shufflespack]

3:13 hes on lsd

[GameStation3]

"Flowers and Trees" was the first cartoon short done in FULL three-strip technicolor. This cartoon was in two-strip technicolor, and for a while, Disney had exclusive rights for three-strip. The first Porky Pig cartoon, "I Haven't Got A Hat" was made during that time. Two-strip, as you can tell here, has a rather limited color pallet of mostly shades of red and green, with the occasional brown.

[edgarc92]

this......is.....AWESOME!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ZogJhones]

@CUTEANDPURTY202 maybe its the fact that all the artists that made this are long dead?

[InvaderZim897]

@ZogJhones These kind of cartoons creep my mom out, too, she thought it might be that too.

I don't really get what's so creepy about old cartoons, myself. I love them.

[TheEdelpunk]

Film-Zeichetrickfilm ... vome Fröschli vo Tanzt ide Natur ..... und Musig macht mit sine Natur-mitbewohner

[HauntingBull]

From prince to game sprite to rubber hose cartoon, then through the radiation of Eric Schwartz's awesomeness to a massively horny frog who dates an animal that would normally eat him.

This is exactly why I love cartoons, you can never tell just what might happen.

[jsalcomm1]

The early mickey



[ChristianAnden]

thumbs up if you ended here because of Fiddlesticks from League of Legends.

[OMGWTFBBQINTHESKY]

@ChristianAnden I was doing a research paper, lucky you

[autocon2002]

Yeah...that whole sequence with the Mickey Mouse ripoff is a big "fuck you" to Disney.

[1992skyline]

@autocon2002 You are aware that Ub Iwerks 1) Was one of Disney's top animators and 2) He was the original creator of Mickey Mouse.

[gr5grh]

first he paw the piano , than he punched the shit out of it :D

Love this frog with the duck voice! ^^

[katinaanimator]

Producer Pat Powers, who lured Ub Iwerks away from Disney, hoped Flip the Frog would be more popular than Mickey. He wasn't. Note the bad Mickey rip-off playing the fiddle next to Flip! This WAS the first cartoon with sound AND two-color technicolor. Walt Disney would surpass Ub by making a THREE-color cartoon in 1932, and he owned the exclusive rights to the full color process for two years.

[thealliesarejews]

reminds me of eminem video lol..

[smenkinsa]

boy o boy good ol creepy toons :)

[Distimok]

why does it talk like a duck!!!!!!!!

[autocon2002]

@Distimok Some frogs sound like that, but yes I agree that it's not very froglike in terms of how a child viewer might interpret it.

Early films with sound effects frequently used kazoos and such. For some reason, early voiced parts in cartoons were really minimal.

[AshleeButler09]

this is actually the first two strip technicolor film!

[izvarzone]

I never liked old american cartoons, they are annoying because of music and excessive violence.

[odorobujohn]

I'm thoroughly convinced that Flip is the main ingredient in lsd. The symptoms are the same. If you do too much, it'll stay in you and a cloud of madness will form over your brain for the rest of your life.

[juliocesar24]

I want a transfer of this from that format to 1080p HD, 5.1 Dolby Digital, Widescreen and 3D...hahaha

[GENIUSGT]

meh, still better than most of today's shows.

[juliocesar24]

@GENIUSGT today's cartoons are indeed a piece of shit made for and by people who has sawdust in their heads.

[GENIUSGT]

stop at 2:32 as he stares at your soul.

[killerwill55]

Cant believe this was just 80 years ago.. when slaves were just free

[coopercrue]

these old cartoons piss me the fuck off

[Shoknifeman]

Ubbe was a great animator, but, a soso writer-director and his cartoons weren't that popular

[OmegaBehemoth]

loved the mickey mouse reference 3:35 im with tach this is awesome

[imnotdointhat]

possibly the best cartoon clip i have ever watched in my life!!

[uppitynigger]

Disney & Iwerks were a perfect team that should have always stayed together, like the Beatles needed to. I mean, Disney was perfectly sucessful without Iwerks, & Iwerks did return to him in a less substansial role, but to me he should be far more recognized than he is today, & if his influence had been greater it would have been better for the movies- this is my feeling

[uppitynigger]

Disney was the dreamer, the one with true vision. Iwerks was the first to bring his dreams to life, so to speak- & in a manner that took off, his rendering of walts ideas captured the publics imagination. It was one of those partnerships that seemed to be made in heaven. But once Mickey Mouse had been invented, Walt could hire people to do what Iwerks had done. You cant hire a visonary though. But Iwerks understood Walt Disneys thinking & dreams better than anybody else would

[uppitynigger]

& once Walt DID hire others to do what Iwerks had done, Iwerks was able to better serve Disney & his dreams by inventing both the multi-plans camera in the mid-30s, giving animated cartoons the depth of live-action film, and the xerox process of transfering drawings to film, making it much easier & quick, (less expensive), to animate drawings. Walt loved the look of multi-plane, hated the look of xerox (he liked the less-expensive part of it, so did his brother) They also liked Ub Iwerks

[Gondohar]

@uppitynigger lol. uppitynigger. thats a funny name :)

[NICKOLSandDIMES]

frogs don't quack.... or do they... 0_o

[TommyStudios10]

5:51 to the end - That song sounded cool!

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

I wonder why they overdubbed the splash at 0:46...

[Neoncelerity]

@OldMusicOnVinyl10 If you listen closely, the original sounded much like a gunshot.

[Nen783]

These cartoons always cheer me up.

[cjthemusicman]

...only my crazy and wacky but lovable friend would think of sending this to me! :) I once saw a talking frog...but never a piano playing frog! lol!

[thetoontownking]

@cjthemusicman Yeah, I agree

[adamtheskunk]

0:46 can anyone explain the splash that's sounds very dubbed, i could be wrong but the sonic quality of it sounds a lot like it was imposed there on top of the original sound.

[JanniPink]

am i the ony one who finds 2:29 rly scary??

[Nereidinja]

scared the hell out of me

[heishirosama]

@JanniPink

You're not the only one.

[JanniPink]

i have this on a vhs in Finnish :D

[pufixas]

nice frame rate for this time

[Jauwp]

This is pretty funny

[jonman45]

i'm baked on shrooms and weed right now im basically in a spaceship im so hgh, and this is aTRIPPPIN me out HOLY SHIT

[XomB]

@jonman45 good lad!

[67nairb]

3:26-the mouse playing the violin looks a liitle bit like Mickey.

[mondomino]

4:36 = ROCK ON, Flip!

[ibhproductions441]

omg hahah

[CTNYNJ809]

The colors look a little bland but this is a good cartoon

[Z3R0FiR3]

What do you expect? It's from 1930! Before actual color cartoons were common.

[cumulo25]

@Z3R0FiR3 cartoons? how about before color ANYTHING was common. even still photographs.

[puttytat96]

yea really!

[wylekat]

I am currently learning blender- and I think I am going to start making cartoons like this- funny, silly, and simple. I think it's time to go back to good solid entertainment.

[MwahahaMutsumi]

We would all love you if you did that XD!

[pandabard]

2:29 LOL

[hyoringmaru]

omg guys you got to listen this when your high

so freaking funny

[23zach32]

he breaking the piano...and a bird chewing spit tabacco...

[cydcombs]

Yeah, if that's not pre-cursor Mickey (or post-cursor) at 3:29--white face, white gloves, round ears, red pants, large eyes, then I don't know what is....

[christopherquinn]

Actually, Ub iWerks was the ONE animator for all the Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1928 to 1929. Ub was THE artist, THE cartoonist. He, not Walt Disney, did all the cartooning for every frame. When he left Disney in late 1929, he went on to do his own cartoons, like Flip the Frog (the first color cartoon), and made many inventions that cartooning and animation easier for others. For example, he create the means to make live action and animation go together, which he called black screen filming.

[Orenotter]

Ub Iwerks is underappreciated. No question there. But he and Disney were complimentary. Disney provided the writing and direction for those old cartoons, and though Iwerks was a highly competent animator, his cartoons suffered without his old friend. From what I read, so did his happiness. Apart, they were good. Together, they were great.

[doublecheesefanta]

i agree with you.

[yohannbiimu]

Ub Iwerks indeed did the animation for the first two or three Mickey Cartoons; however, Disney arranged other animators to work on cartoons that followed while Iwerks was still at Disney. Les Clark was one of them. He also recruited a lot of animators out of New York (guys like Grim Natwick and Dick Huemer).

[fp3shb]

...No emotion in this, from that frog, Nah I'll stick with Mickey.

[DrLolage]

LOL'ing at 2:28 - 2:32

[sergey444]

lol was he spanking to the beat? this is awesome, i've never seen this, i'm young, and i think this is what cartoons should be like now... or at least something closer to looney tunes. Cartoons are worthless these days.

[katz2013]

Woah... What's up with that violinist mouse in red shorts?

Don't look too much like Mickey Mouse, huh?

[Akenaseryan]

wow i got the VHS of this cartoon, that was cool

[Skocior]

very aesthetically pleasing!

[kkuulovauri0]

I LOVE IT !

this makes me happy when i'm sad.

[darkkclovers]

i remember watching this when i was little, it was hand-me-down from like me fiftieth great grandpa -_-

[FilmTraum2]

Fantastic sgort movie! Love it!Thanks for posting!

[MoonlightCompostions]

The mouse was Crying Dada!!!!

[seanconnors100]

The part where he dances on the turle is in the music video "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem.

[everynameisused3]

That frog is a dancin' fool

[Luftadler]

i saw this when i was a little girl in the late 80's

[helivestubes]

One of my favs! Thanks for posting this one!

Helives! aka FROG

[iqra1993]

is that mortimer or mickey mouse at 3.28...any1 know?!

[Lindamorena]

i think its mickey before his personality was developed

[thomase13]

That's what you would think, but this is after Mickey's personality was developed.

[zizumia]

i read that fiddle sticks was a relation to micky mouse

[chickenbutt244]

LOL he spanks the bug.

[manolinmanolon]

sooooooo cute!!

[castlefroggy]

Flip the frog was my role moddle from age 3 to 7 years old. The mouse use to make me cry.

[sdcharle]

I love that plucky li'l frog

[Drozda89]

Perhaps Skvid doesnt realize we are watching something that is 78 years old, and was most likely seen by hundreds of thousands at the movies during the the final years of the great depression- just fascinating!

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

The 1st Flip The Frog cartoon! I noticed that there's an old 1930's cartoon character named Flip The Frog & A Happy Tree Friend character named Flippy... At the end of this video there's a Mickey Mouse look a like.

[Katasha88]

beautiful!

[Skvid]

sucks

[tachman2]

fuck u skvid this is awesome

[Cklef]

if u like this check my flip the frog remix

[RobDog65]

There was color in films during this period, but it made for expensive productions. This cartoon used the "two-strip" Technicolor process, which only included the red and green elements of the color spectrum. "Three-strip", which used the blue portion, came along a few years later.

[Korzlin]

This rocks the cocks.

[NeoCotex34]

amazing, i didn't belive there was such thing as color in 1930.

[orkkrieger]

hahahah! I love it!!! :D

[JohnCousin37]

Interesting piece of animation. I can tell Ub Iwerks designed the characters. That mouse looks somewhat familiar, almost like Disney's Mortimer Mouse, one of his lesser known characters.

[camu1]

this cartoon is fucking awsome!

[cha5]

Very surreal.

[ashersmama]

OMG i cant believe i found this cartoon! my brother and I had this on a video with other cartoons and we used to play it over and over til it couldnt be played no more! BLOODY FANTASTIC!!!!

[Daddy041986]

Einfach nur genial...ich hab das schon als 6 jähriger gesehen...habe das ewig schon gesucht und bei youtube gefunden...wenn jemand infos hat wo man die Videokassette bekommt....her damit!!!!!!!!!!!!

[daveputa]

GENIAL!

[pamelamackay]

interesting but also rediculos

[Vigrash]

madness. kids sat and watched this? no wonder humans are so stupid.

[drakonis8]

animated movies weren't originaly meant for children

it was more for adult

[Vigrash]

...

As I said, no wonder humans are so stupid.

[douqep]

I would suggest that humans that don't understand or have no interest in the art and history of animation, should place their comments else where.

[Vigrash]

I came, I saw, I voiced my opinion. That is the point of the comment system, no?

[douqep]

OK, let me put it another way. If you don't get it, who cares about your opinion?

[Vigrash]

I didn't assume anyone would. You seem to assume that no one will, which is ignorant. I have a right to my own opinion on a video, and the right to voice it. So stop hating, damn.

[jnungesser]

You have a right to your opinion on a video, but if you're going to complain about people "hating", don't leave comments on a cartoon about how "humans are stupid". I think that's fair.

[sexyrat973]

You have a point there. I agree. I'll try not to be so radical about my opinion from now on. I don't know why I was calling all humans stupid. Must have been a faze. :P

[pacificvibe]

I agree there.

[friedchicknfiend]

this soundtrack is rockin haha. i wish they would still make music like this...it kinda saddens me the direction cartoons are going

[GOW624]

i would do anything to go back in time and watch this with my brother again. . .

[Rikusoeru]

2:28 is scary...T_T

[joanaso]

so innocent and sweet... these are rare things nowadays.

[cachiruleta]

kick ass

[ho0pla]

Lmao I think I like this better than our TV now... our TV now is so stupid...This was great.

[ptyalisme]

A-W-E-S-O-M-E !!!

[kraken1988]

Anyone else notice a mouse with red shorts? I know that the guy who started flip animated the first disney cartoons.

[UglySean]

Yeah, Ubbe Iwwerks aka Ub Iwerks did the original Disney animation. Traitor or brilliant career move to leave Disney? You decide.

[slegdar]

1930 DIDDNT HAVE COLOR! first color TV was made in 1944 =P but the cartoon is great nice share

[beakeclipse]

Uhm... this was shown in theater...

[leannan02]

Not true.

[Babyhowdy233]

This was originally shown in theatres, and my late dad used to tell me about watching Flip The Frog, but this is the first I've had the chance to see these wonderful cartoons! I'd LOVE to buy a collection of Flip The Frog cartoons!

[empire699]

this was on one of my favourite videos growing up. the bit with the spider always scred me though! thanks for posting, made me smile

[CountTentacula]

A tragic shame that things like this aren't as popular as they once were.

This sort of cartoon is nothing but pure gold.

[bigboi2929]

Is this the first color cartoon?

[jexplink]

I'd love to see Flip in a showdown with Crazy Frog. Flip would kick his ass.

[tayjay1211]

i love these old cartoons